Sublime

Every single group comes suited up to play hardball: think tanks, super PACs, PR firms, LLCs, and operatives who have been smearing for decades on both sides of the aisle—David Brock and Rick Berman, to name a couple. All of them, left and right, have one man in their crosshairs: Donald Trump. Trump is hit with smear after smear—some of them based

At the end of the presentation someone asked whether he thought they

Corny or not, I found that old journalistic injunction to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable” inspiring.

“To be clear, I support the left half of the Republican Party and the right half of the Democratic Party!”

More a friend to his authors than a taskmaster, he aided them in every way. He helped them structure their books, if help was needed; thought up titles, invented plots; he served as psychoanalyst, lovelorn adviser, marriage counselor, career manager, money-lender. Few editors before him had done so much work on manuscripts, yet he was always faithf

“There were many times when we felt blessed. It was as though certain death had granted us an extra life.”

Globally, America has grown more alarmed about its enemies, less generous toward its friends, more wary of everybody.

If journalists would open their minds and engage in independent thought rather than advancing spoon-fed narratives, they might sniff out more interesting stories—like the one about politicians stacking audiences. Instead it’s Trump who ends up exposing the phenomenon. During the debate, he comments that the audience members jeering him are big Repu

the last day of his presidency, Clinton warned George Bush and Colin Powell not to trust a word Arafat would say to them.