Clare Malone

You can drag a horticulture but you can't make her think. Staff writer @NewYorker covering media and politics 📝[email protected] 📝

Articles

Morale at the Washington Post Has “Never Been Lower”

2 days ago | newyorker.com | Clare Malone

How the paper that brought down Richard Nixon is struggling to survive the second term of Donald Trump. Plus:“Bezos is trying to do a real job with the Washington Post,” Trump has said, “and that wasn’t happening before.” Photo illustration by Cristiana Couceiro; Source photographs from The Washington Post / Getty; Samir Hussein / GettyI became a Washington Post reader twenty years ago, when I moved to D.C. for college.
Is Jeff Bezos Selling Out the Washington Post?

2 days ago | businessandamerica.com | Clare Malone

I had passed the Watergate Hotel on my way to the party. It sits alongside the Kennedy Center, on the bank of the Potomac River. The pair of buildings, each a cream-colored behemoth, were completed in the early nineteen-seventies, a fabled era in the capital, when Presidents feared journalists and the bipartisan élite dined together on lobster bisque and gossip. Katharine Graham, quiet, wry, and patrician, was then one of the most powerful women in America.
Is Jeff Bezos Selling Out the Washington Post?

2 days ago | newyorker.com | Clare Malone

On a cold evening in March, a month and a half into the second Trump Administration, a crowd gathered in the Terrace Theatre at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington, D.C. Warren Buffett, the billionaire C.E.O. of Berkshire Hathaway, was hosting a screening party for “Becoming Katharine Graham,” a new documentary celebrating the career of the Washington Post’s legendary publisher.
Is Jeff Bezos Selling Out the Washington Post?

2 days ago | flipboard.com | Clare Malone

Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos’ Lavish $500m Wedding Just Got a Wild Twist—Even Insiders are Stunned!Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s upcoming wedding is already shaping up to be one of the most talked-about events of the year, and a new detail about …
The Junk Science of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Jan 30, 2025 | rsn.org | Clare Malone

For the first time in modern American history, a skeptic of medical research could be responsible for safeguarding public health. In the fading days of Robert F.
The Junk Science of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Jan 29, 2025 | newyorker.com | Clare Malone

In the fading days of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s independent campaign for President, he found himself on the phone with Donald Trump, a man he once privately described as “a terrible human being.” Trump had nearly been killed by an assassin’s bullet at a Pennsylvania rally, an act that hit close to home for Kennedy, whose father was assassinated on the Presidential campaign trail.
The Junk Science of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Jan 29, 2025 | flipboard.com | Clare Malone

An email went out to the federal workforce Tuesday evening, with a subject line that had ties to Elon Musk. President Donald Trump's administration is offering federal workers the chance to take a "deferred resignation," which would mean they agree now to resign but get paid through September. A …
Is the TikTok Ban a Chance to Rethink the Whole Internet?

Jan 17, 2025 | newyorker.com | Clare Malone

McCourt, who says that he has no interest in becoming TikTok’s C.E.O., is unique among the group of potential buyers. For starters, he has been steadfastly public, voicing his desire to purchase the app in print and televised interviews, including on “Fox & Friends,” reportedly Trump’s favorite show.
Bearing Witness to American Exploits

Nov 16, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Clare Malone

Share When Peter van Agtmael was in college, he bought a collection of pictures taken by photojournalists who had died while covering the Vietnam War. “The pictures that shaped my understanding of violence were as seductive as they were frightening,” he writes in his book “Look at the U.S.A.,” a survey of wars and domestic strife in post-9/11 America. As a child of the nineties, he was familiar with the good-vs.-evil narratives of American interventions from TV news, but the George W.
Bearing Witness to American Exploits

Nov 15, 2024 | newyorker.com | Clare Malone

When Peter van Agtmael was in college, he bought a collection of pictures taken by photojournalists who had died while covering the Vietnam War. “The pictures that shaped my understanding of violence were as seductive as they were frightening,” he writes in his book “Look at the U.S.A.,” a survey of wars and domestic strife in post-9/11 America. As a child of the nineties, he was familiar with the good-vs.-evil narratives of American interventions from TV news, but the George W.