Marc Fisher
Columnist and Associate Editor at The Washington Post
Washington Post columnist and associate editor; co-author of 'Trump Revealed,' and author of 'Something in the Air' and 'After The Wall.'
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1 week ago |
washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher
Trump wants to limit U.S. history to the shiny parts. It won’t work. (washingtonpost.com) Trump wants to limit U.S. history to the shiny parts. It won’t work. By Marc Fisher 2025041609450500 Developers reshape reality. They dress up the drab and market it as the unique. Donald Trump spent about half a century hawking condos, casinos and all sorts of middling products that he sold as spectacular, with some success (and plenty of failure, too).
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2 weeks ago |
washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher
The fuel that feeds the Trump chaos machine? Fear. (washingtonpost.com) The fuel that feeds the Trump chaos machine? Fear. By Marc Fisher 2025040909455200 Fear is a ferocious force. It can quiet even the most powerful voices and turn previously principled people into amoral jelly. America is in a frenzy of fear: Virtually every lawmaker in Congress has been frozen in angst that President Donald Trump will set his adoring base against them.
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2 weeks ago |
washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher
Ovechkin fever binds a great player and a city in need of a hero (washingtonpost.com) Ovechkin fever binds a great player and a city in need of a hero By Marc Fisher 2025040416102400 D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has been popping up around town lately calling Washington the "sports capital" of the country. Mmm-hmm, and we're super-popular and fashion-forward and at the cutting edge of the fight against economic inequality, too.
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3 weeks ago |
washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher
Politicians usually try to add jobs. Trump and Musk aim to vaporize them. (washingtonpost.com) Politicians usually try to add jobs. Trump and Musk aim to vaporize them. By Marc Fisher 2025040209450000 In normal times, government is all about building jobs and boosting the economy.
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1 month ago |
washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher
It was the early '60s, Chubby Checker was doing the twist and the first records by a British boy band were shooting up the charts on Top 40 radio, but in the dorms at New York Military Academy, one room was still fixed in the 1950s. In the spring of their senior year, many boys in Donald Trump's class at the boarding school not far from West Point discovered and devoured each new release by the Beatles, but in Trump's room, Johnny Mathis was king.
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Master of distraction: Just hours after the president's embarrassing about-face on tariffs, Trump issues an order to restore strong water pressure in America’s showers. Hurrah! Now if he can bring back decent flow in public sinks.... https://t.co/kUrnjyesGB
New column: The fuel that feeds the Trump chaos machine? Fear. https://t.co/XAXaT6FpPa
Post Exclusive: Where’s all that money you’re spending on eggs going? Check out the massive increase in egg companies’ profits — and the tens of millions in federal cash the companies are raking in on top of that https://t.co/0XksGkilOD
