Strongmen are weaker. Integrity endures. Peace is popular.
Jonathan Alter
Posted inFeatured
Tatiana Schlossberg (1990-2025)
My personal admiration for her Proustian writing and her Job-like mother.
Posted inPolitics
What Is the “American Contradiction”?
Paul Starr on the deeper historical roots of what will be called the Trump Era—whether we like it or not.
Posted inPolitics
Shari Redstone Might Be Headed for Jail
If Paramount’s heiress chief settles with Trump, it will be seen as extortion and bribery.
Posted inFeatured
A Life Sentence of Disgrace
The unCarter, the unTrump and the Creation of a Usable Past
Posted inNovember/December 2021
The Surprising Greatness of Jimmy Carter
A conversation with presidential biographers Jonathan Alter and Kai Bird.
Posted inNovember/December 2024
From President to Convict
Jonathan Alter takes us inside the hush money trial that made Donald Trump the first ex-president felon in American history.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Not Suitable for Children
Remember eight years ago this week, when right-wingers freaked out over President Obama’s back-to-school address to public school children? MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow noted at the time that the right-wing meltdown was completely irrational, since Obama said nothing offensive during the speech. Eight years later, if Donald Trump decided to deliver a back-to-school address to America’s […]
