The Speechwriter’s Room Podcast
By: Sarah Gruen · 09/25/2026
Looking for your next listen (best streamed while baking)? Our Sarah Gruen stopped by The Speechwriter's Room to share her experience at the United Nations,
Insights
UNGA Pressure: An Insider’s Guide to Diplomacy’s Biggest Week
By: Sarah Gruen · 08/11/2026
As the former Director of Speechwriting for the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, UNGA was my Super Bowl (right down to the halftime
The Name is Mamdani.
By: West Wing Writers · 01/13/2026
Zohran Mamdani is a relentlessly disciplined messenger on affordability. So it’s all the more interesting when he gives a speech about something else. A week
What Abraham Lincoln Understood About the Founders
By: Jeff Shesol · 09/15/2025
Co-founder and Executive Director Jeff Shesol reviews a new book by Akhil Reed Amar that paints a sprawling portrait of 19th-century America in thrall to
In an Era of Deep Polarization, Unity Is Not Trump’s Mission
By: Jeff Shesol · 09/15/2025
Co-founder and Executive Director Jeff Shesol comments on the President’s failure to unify the country in moments of tragedy, in the New York Times.
Charlie Kirk’s Killing Requires Trump to Soothe, Not Inflame
By: Jeff Shesol · 09/15/2025
Co-founder and Executive Director Jeff Shesol comments on the President's role as the nation's "mourner in chief" in Bloomberg News.
Moments
Before QAnon and the Deep State, There Was Iron Mountain
By: Jeff Shesol · 03/25/2025
Co-founder and Executive Director Jeff Shesol reviews a new book by Phil Tinline that recounts the history of a 1967 hoax and its ongoing influence
John Roberts Is on a Collision Course with Trump
By: Jeff Shesol · 03/07/2025
Alexander Hamilton saw it coming. In the Federalist Papers, he described the judiciary as a feeble branch of government, easily “overpowered, awed or influenced” by
The New York Times: Gameplay
By: Chandler Dean · 11/15/2024
Senior Director Chandler Dean chats with The New York Times columnist Sam Corbin about tricolons.
Do good things actually come in
The Story Biden Ought to Be Telling in This Debate
By: Jeff Shesol · 06/27/2024
The mythology of the presidential debate — as a kind of civic single combat, mano a mano, with the nation’s future at stake — has