Peter Savodnik

1 month ago | thefp.com | Peter Savodnik

Timothy Snyder Spent Years Studying Fascists. He Thinks Trump Is One. Is the Yale historian a prophet, as his supporters say? Or is he stripping the word ‘fascism’ of its meaning? TORONTO—“Is Donald Trump a fascist?” I asked the historian Timothy Snyder. We were at a lovely restaurant on the campus of the University of Toronto, where Snyder had taken up residence after leaving Yale—and America—last August. I was in the middle of the grilled calamari.

1 month ago | thefp.com | Peter Savodnik

Joseph Massey says he tries to avoid politics in his poetry. But politics has found him, whether he likes it or not. Massey, 46, has just released self-published his fourth self-published poetry collection, America Is the Poem, and it is blowing up on Amazon: Earlier this month, it was in the top 50, peaking at No. 14—out of 32.8 million titles available. (Books of poetry usually underperform. As of right now, there are only two in the top 100, both by Dr. Seuss.)And he’s got some high-profile fans.

2 months ago | thefp.com | Peter Savodnik

Meet Usha Vance: MAGA’s Enigmatic Second LadyThe most impressive person in the job since Abigail Adams is J.D.’s best asset if he ever runs for president. She sits down with The Free Press for her first interview in her new role. When Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance, went to The Kennedy Center, in Washington, D.C., on March 13 they were hoping, like all parents of three young children, to have a night out. They didn’t expect to get heckled.

Mar 23, 2025 | thefp.com | Peter Savodnik

Delia Ramirez Wants to Lead the New ResistanceThe Chicago congresswoman says the Democratic Party’s failure isn’t that it went too far left. It’s that it didn’t go far enough. Two weeks ago, Congresswoman Delia Ramirez, a Democrat from Chicago, took to X to blast the arrest of a pro-Hamas activist at Columbia University.

Mar 19, 2025 | thefp.com | Peter Savodnik

The government just posted another tranche of documents that the conspiracy theorists hope will tell us who really killed John F. Kennedy, and even though we are unlikely to learn anything important about that, we are learning a great deal about us. There are 2,200 documents in this latest data dump, comprising about 63,400 pages of official memoranda and handwritten notes and blurry photographs, and they were released without anyone apparently having given much thought to organization.