Deft and crude, Michael Wolff's gossipy Trump Administration rip-and-read tells us what we already know—America is led by a mendacious man-child surrounded by dishonorable lackeys—but in a pungent style that makes it resonate.
"We sometimes project our problems onto sports," Louisa Thomas notes. "But sports can also be ... where we start to work them out."
Steven Spielberg’s inspired rabblerousing film, The Post may be preaching to the choir, but it’s a damn good sermon.
Applying for a public service job? Put "sense of humor" at the top of your resume.
We may be one nation in America, but today we appear to be living on different planets, as we are divided by humor, among other things.
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Donald Trump's rise in American politics is not a resurgence of fascism, argues professor Enzo Traverso in his essay, "Trump's Savage Capitalism" -- it is something else. Traverso's essay is published in this excerpt from The U.S. Anti-Fascism Reader, courtesy of Verso Books.
