Susan Glasser

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Susan Glasser

Call it Donald Trump’s Strongman Week. Over the course of just a few days, the President has ordered the military into the streets of Los Angeles—over the objections of California’s Democratic governor—to curb protests against his immigration crackdown, appeared with cheering uniformed troops at what amounted to a political rally, and planned to hold a military parade featuring the rare spectacle of tanks rolling through the streets of Washington.

3 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Susan Glasser

Shamelessness, defined as brazen disregard for that which might deter anyone else, has always been one of Donald Trump’s superpowers. It’s part of the alchemy by which he can ignore his own defeats, reverses, missteps, and absurd overpromises, and pretend that they either never happened or were actually proof of great success.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Susan Glasser

3 hours agoMusk calls for Trump's impeachmentElon Musk unleashed a fresh round of tweets late Thursday afternoon, calling for President Trump to be impeached and declaring that SpaceX would …3 hours agoOpinion | This could be RFK Jr.’s most costly mistakeWhat sense does it make to take away a potent tool against future pandemics? You’re reading The Checkup With Dr. Wen, a newsletter on how to navigate medical and public health challenges.

4 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Susan Glasser

It ended, of course, with a tweet. Late on Wednesday evening, Elon Musk announced the official end of his short, traumatic tenure as the head of a made-up agency called the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk’s post on X, the social-media network he owns and had sought to weaponize in service of a radical cost-costing assault on the federal government, was brief.

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Susan Glasser

Considering Donald Trump’s many outrages, his theatrically hostile reception of Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of South Africa, in the Oval Office on Wednesday may soon be forgotten.