To celebrate the country's 250th, the Trump administration is proposing a SECOND coin featuring the sitting president -- one of gold, of course. My story: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...
26.02.2026 00:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
To celebrate the country's 250th, the Trump administration is proposing a SECOND coin featuring the sitting president -- one of gold, of course. My story: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...
26.02.2026 00:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A few weeks ago, from out of nowhere, I received an email from a book-club organizer who raved about my long-out-of-print memoir. I was flattered, no question. But then I received another effusive email about my books, and another, and another. Things got weird. Here's my story -- about scams!
25.02.2026 20:59 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
How do you write about a slur? My New York Times colleague Sonia A. Rao and I recently grappled with this. Here's the backstory:
05.02.2026 22:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The R-Word has returned with a vengeance. In recent months it has been used by President Trump, various right-wing influencers, and Justice Department official in charge of civil rights. If the term is known to be offensive, the question then is: Why? Why use it?
My story, with Sonia Rao.
Thank you, John, very much.
26.01.2026 20:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Five years after the Capitol riot, and nearly a year after President Trump granted clemency to those who attacked police officers, vandalized the landmark, and disrupted the orderly transfer of power, conspiracy-obsessed J6ers even want more. By Alan Feuer and me.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
President Trump began his second term by granting wholesale amnesty to those implicated in the Capitol riot stoked by his stolen-election lies. Now those J6ers hunger for more payback - a zombie-like hunger rooted in the conspiracy theories pushed by Trump and his allies. By Alan Feuer and me.
06.01.2026 00:52 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
This Christmas, the Barrys have moved up. No longer just Entenmann’s. Now: Entenmann’s PREMIUM!
A joyous Christmas to all!
Fair point. Thank you.
14.12.2025 23:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Trump administration rejected coin designs that would, in honor of the country's 250th anniversary, feature Frederick Douglass, a women's suffragist and Ruby Bridges. Instead: Pilgrims, founding fathers - and the sitting president.
My story, with photos by Rachel Wisniewski:
The Village Green was kind enough to feature an article about the upcoming movie "The Lost Children of Tuam," now in post-production. Thank you very much, Mary Barr Mann!
14.12.2025 18:28 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Coins tell the story of us. One of the world's finest collections can be found in lower Manhattan, but almost no one ever sees these coins, and so off to Toledo they go.
My story, with the typically excellent photos of Todd Heisler.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/a...
After they were finished catching up, he ended the call with, “I’ll see you all of a sudden, kid. Bye-bye.” How could we be so lucky to get the combination of William Kennedy and @danbarry58.bsky.social all in one story?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/a...
I went up to Albany all of a rainy night and what mug do I find but William Kennedy, THE William Kennedy. Author of "Ironweed," "Roscoe," and so many other novels that endure. He's 97, he's still writing - and he'll drink you under the table. So here: Your "Great Read."
13.11.2025 17:18 — 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2
“It is anti-American at its core.” A great story from @danbarry58.bsky.social about yet another Trump fiasco of ego and sycophancy in the making
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
Another @danbarry58.bsky.social classic. These columns are a genre all their own. NYT: A Two-Headed Coin That Always Comes Up ‘Trump’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
09.11.2025 18:50 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Trump administration is planning to feature the sitting president on a coin, upending an anti-monarchical custom dating to George Washington, who might as well have coined the phrase “No Kings.”
My dive into the numismatic past:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
Sometimes I feel like Una O’Connor’s scream.
31.10.2025 23:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The filming of “The Lost Children of Tuam” in Tuam, Co. Galway. A scene from my story: “Their oversize hobnail boots beat a frantic rhythm as they hustle to their likely slap at the schoolhouse door.”
h/t: The Tuam Herald
"As in, now."
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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/n...
So very honored to talk about storytelling with the great journalist Line Vaaben at the Fortellingens Kraft 2025 conference in Bergen, Norway. I assured everyone that speaking truth to power continues in the United States.
20.09.2025 16:00 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bergen, Norway
September 2025
So they're shooting a movie this month in Ireland that is based on my 2017 story, "The Lost Children of Tuam." It's about the scandalous mother and baby homes and the indefatigable Catherine Corless, who exposed the heartbreaking truth -- forcing Ireland to reckon with its past.
11.09.2025 23:18 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Today is my 30th anniversary at The New York Times. The parade up Fifth Avenue begins at noon. It will feature Jumbo the elephant, Mayor Jimmy Walker, Mr. Met, Miss Rheingold, and various Tammany dignitaries assembled by Big Tim Sullivan. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
05.09.2025 12:15 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Dedicated public servants, sacrificed at the altar of Trump. A great and galling story from @danbarry58.bsky.social and @alanfeuer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/n...
24.08.2025 20:31 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0A prosecutor's firing "confirmed for him his view that the Justice Department he had been honored to work for was now helping to whitewash a traumatic event in American history, supporting President Trump’s reframing of its violence as patriotic" and of some DOJ lawyers as villains or traitors.
24.08.2025 15:23 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
And, for those who prefer, there's an audio version of our DOJ pardon/purge story, with a brief explanation of how Alan Feuer and I approached it. Produced by @adriennehurst.bsky.social and read by me. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/n...
24.08.2025 13:32 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
After Trump’s pardons of Jan. 6 rioters, there has come the purge - of the federal prosecutors who handled the cases. Fired or demoted for doing their jobs. Story by Alan Feuer and me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/n...
