Andrew O'Hehir
Executive Editor at Salon
Freelance Writer at The Hollywood Reporter
Exec editor (politics), columnist, vid talking head. Salon. Not promising I won't still write about movies most people hate.
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1 week ago |
salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir
It’s the defining anecdote for any article of this type, repeated ad infinitum without entirely losing its resonance: After his first meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Bill Clinton reportedly asked a circle of aides: “Who the f**k does he think he is? Who’s the f**king superpower here?”That was in the summer of 1996, just after the 46-year-old Netanyahu had won his first election as leader of the Likud party.
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2 weeks ago |
salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir
Who wasn’t mesmerized by last week’s epic, if profoundly embarrassing, catfight between Elon Musk and Donald Trump? No one, that’s who. I browse a lot of random publications from all over the world, and the online feud between the president of the United States and the richest person on the planet (along with the associated memes: “high-agency males going at it”!) was front-page news in Finland, Italy, Kenya and Argentina, just for starters.
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3 weeks ago |
salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir
Foreign policy experts have struggled to make sense of the second Trump administration's incoherent and contradictory approach to world affairs — which in itself ought to serve as a clue. First of all, it suggests that the Trump team is operating without a recognizable or familiar playbook, driven partly by the Great Leader’s famous whims and fancies and partly by competing streams of ideology.
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1 month ago |
salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir
It’s pointless to proclaim that the second Trump administration has hit a new low. There’s always next week, and the likelihood of deeper and ever more painful absurdities: Drinking straws are causing gender confusion; many Americans are declining COVID boosters and therefore no Americans may have them; the price of eggs has fallen so far so fast that the supermarket now pays you.
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1 month ago |
salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir
As warm spring weather and effusions of greenery spread across our disordered continent, Americans are understandably mesmerized by the widening chaos, unresolved conflict and bottomless corruption of Donald Trump’s second presidency.
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