Joel Stein

3 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Larry Wilmore |Joel Stein |Kenneal Patterson |Michael Boyle

As someone who has hosted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, I was extremely disappointed upon hearing the unceremonious cancelation of this year’s host, Amber Ruffin.

3 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Chris Cillizza |Joel Stein |Michael Boyle |Kenneal Patterson

I still remember the moment distinctly. I was in my mid 20s, a fledgling reporter at Roll Call newspaper. I lived just a few blocks away from the Hilton on Connecticut Avenue where, every April, the stars of the political and media world flocked for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. I went on a run the Saturday night of the dinner. And I stopped to watch as all the people I thought I wanted to be made their way into the hotel.

3 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Eboni Boykin-Patterson |Joel Stein

The hosts of The View were divided over Amber Ruffin’s firing as emcee from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner next month following her comments on The Daily Beast podcast that Republicans are “a bunch of murderers.”Former Donald Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin began by defending the decision to bail on both Ruffin—and a comedian host altogher.

3 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Joel Stein |Kenneal Patterson |Erkki Forster |David Gardner

Living through authoritarianism is a much richer and more complex experience than I expected. Naively, I’d assumed that a dictator just sent some thugs to shut down the newspapers, built his own propaganda machine and forced through laws punishing ‘unpatriotic’ speech. A few brave Alexei Navalny-like figures would publish the truth regardless, and someone would see their work in 50 years and make an independent movie about them.

Jan 14, 2025 | msn.com | Joel Stein

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