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1 month ago | 
charlessennott.substack.com | Charles M. Sennott |Tina Brown |Matt Taibbi |Heather Richardson
In a new plot twist for GroundTruth, we see the narrative arc come full circle in its 13-year saga as the team continues its Herculean effort to defend against mounting threats to journalism and truth itself, by calling upon a new generation to step up and serve our democracy through local reporting. Call it “GroundTruth II.”Sincere apologies for the breathless Hollywood pitch line, but this is truly a powerful moment for the whole, epic GroundTruth cast and crew.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
tinabrown.substack.com | Tina Brown
There are few politicians who would want to be in Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s blazing saddle right now. When the raging flames begin to cool, the fiery embers of political finger pointing that are already falling on her luckless head will entirely take over from the mesmerizing human stories that have filled our screens for the past week. Usually I find the parade of stricken people interviewed during climate calamities blur after a while. Not this time.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
tinabrown.substack.com | Tina Brown
As 2025 begins, there is already so much drama that I have removed my brain to the dreamy equivalent of a room next door. There is something calming about knowing that partisan media hysteria is now dead in the ratings water.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Matthew Gasda |Tina Brown
The term “post-empire” was coined by the writer Bret Easton Ellisin 2011. The term enjoyed a brief moment in the sun but quickly disappeared. Today, the playwright and novelistis back in our pages, to tell us why the idea deserves a second life. Now, more than ever, “post-empire” is the principle through which we can make sense of America. — Santiago Ramos, Executive Editor“Empire is the US from roughly WWII to a little after 9/11.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
thefp.com | Tina Brown
I have sometimes pondered the pivotal moment when money changes people forever. The answer is, without doubt, the acquisition of the private plane—it’s the moment when you leave the human race forever. And having just flown back on JetBlue Mosaic from the Dominican Republic, sitting next to an enormous Russian chomping plantain chips, I attest wholeheartedly that it’s a loss of connection not to be regretted.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
tinabrown.substack.com | Tina Brown
I have sometimes pondered the pivotal moment when money changes people forever. The answer is without doubt the acquisition of the private plane—it’s the moment when you leave the human race forever. And having just flown back on JetBlue Mosaic from the Dominican Republic sitting next to an enormous Russian chomping plantain chips, I attest wholeheartedly that it’s a loss of connection not to be regretted.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
tinabrown.substack.com | Tina Brown
As a Brit, I have no particular fondness for Thanksgiving, which has always felt to me like it steals the thunder of Christmas. Turkey with all the trimmings twice in four weeks? Get me outta here. Plus, I have never been a fan of that frenzied interregnum when every professional decision is deferred till “after the holidays” and one lives out the end of the year in the hectic oxymoron of a packed limbo.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
tinabrown.substack.com | Tina Brown
The great thing about being in London the week of Trump’s cabinet announcements was I missed the surround sound of exploding liberal heads that gives me PTSD from the first Trump era. The announcements came through as discrete news bombs that gave me five seconds of agita before subsiding into the new passivity of an anesthetized shrug.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
tinabrown.substack.com | Tina Brown
Fled to London Saturday night for some post-election air only to realize I had woken up on Remembrance Sunday. I arrive at the BBC for a panel on Laura Kuenssberg’s morning politics show, alongside Lord Andrew Roberts, the historian, and Lord Peter Mandelson, the former Blair government luminary. In the green room, a poppy is pinned on my lapel in memory of the more than one million UK soldiers killed since the onset of WWI.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
thehyphen.substack.com | Emma Gannon |Ochuko Akpovbovbo |Jameela Jamil |Tina Brown
At a recent creative writing retreat in Italy, I got to spend a week surrounded by lots of different kinds of writers: poets, children’s authors, aspiring novelists. The topic of Substack came up a few times. After all, it’s a brilliant place to regularly practice and flex your writing muscles. A few people asked me what Substack is — and I found myself pausing. How do I best describe it right now? When I joined Substack almost three years ago, I described it as a newsletter platform for writers.
