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Trump's Sweet Vengeance
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (677+ words) Democrats are getting it wrong again....
The King, the Queen, and the Ballroom Blitz
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (305+ words) On the embassy lawn in the spring sunshine, the king glided through the parting crowd as if he were on casters. He first greeted a bipartisan cluster of ingratiating pols that included gangly Scott Bessent, stocky Mike Johnson, Steve Miller…...
Fast & Furious Trump and the Weird Melania Moment
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (153+ words) Clearly, the only person who doesn't ask Trump for permission to speak is Melania. She doesn't give a sheet. Just when her husband got his wish and the Epstein files had dropped out of the news, FLOTUS went rogue with…...
Is the Fog of War Between Trump's Two Ears?
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (1454+ words) FRESH HELL Tina Brown's Diary Is the Fog of War Between Trump's Two Ears? Once again, American hubris has triggered gung-ho global chaos that will last for decades, long after whatever extrication is possible from the Iran misadventure. Trump's feckless…...
Trump's Wild War Game
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1301+ words) FRESH HELL Tina Brown's Diary Trump's Wild War Game If you want to understand where we are at this moment in Trump's second administration, all you have to do is look at that picture of Marco Rubio wearing a pair…...
Messing with the Mullahs
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1189+ words) TINA BROWN: Messing with the Mullahs. .. (Second column, 9th story, link) Related stories: SCRUB-A-DUB-DUB: DOJ plans to release new batch of Epstein files 'soon'. .. Don's unhinged 24 hours. .. Messing with the Mullahs When Trump tells us that the war with Iran is…...
Bafflement with Bezos
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (1166+ words) TINA BROWN: Oligarchs gonna oligarch. .. (Third column, 4th story, link) Related stories: KURTZ: BEZOS SHOULD SELL WASH POST. .. Newsroom devastated and exhausted. .. The whole debacle of the Washington Post brand hara-kiri last week dispatched the myth that a tech billionaire could…...
Trump's Mad Magical Thinking
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (1137+ words) TINA BROWN: Greenlanders could win! (Second column, 5th story, link) Related stories: ROTHKOPF: Now is the time to admit it: He's a dangerous, lunatic moron. .. First calls for World Cup boycott. .. MAG: AMERICANS EXHAUSTED AND CAN'T SEEM TO KEEP UP. .. Trump's…...
Is the Maduro Raid the new Don-roe Doctrine?
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (1164+ words) TINA BROWN: SHOCK AND BORE. .. (Top headline, 1st story, link) Related stories: USA TO 'RUN' VENEZUELA DURING TRANSITION. .. HEGSETH: Intervention 'exact opposite' of Iraq. .. Plan to seize, revitalize oil industry faces big hurdles. .. The Don Rolls the Dice on MORE Nation-Building....
The Year of (Fresh) Hell
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (673+ words) TINA BROWN: THE YEAR FROM HELL. .. (First column, 2nd story, link) Related stories: Delusional Don claims tariffs have brought in $18 TRILLION. .. The Year of (Fresh) Hell And so the horror laugh track of 2025 is drawing to a close, climaxing with the…...