UNGA Pressure: An Insider’s Guide to Diplomacy’s Biggest Week
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...
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The Name is Mamdani.
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
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...
Before QAnon and the Deep State, There Was Iron Mountain
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
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 Story Biden Ought to Be Telling in This Debate
The mythology of the presidential debate — as a kind of civic single combat, mano a mano, with the nation’s future at stake — has...
Total Eclipse Of The Mind
WWW alumn Laurence Pevsner on chasing solar eclipses, the fallibility of memory, and the value of looking at things only our eyes can see.
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How to Nail Your High School Graduation Speech Even If You’re Not that Popular
In his new column, "How to Write Every Speech You'll Ever Need To Give In Your Life," Chandler Dean gives partly satirical, partly genuine advice.Congratulations!...
Headed to COP28 or Davos?
West Wing Writers executive directors Kate Childs Graham and Vinca LaFleur share their advice on how to lead a crowded conversation at a crowded event.
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Is There Fascist DNA in the U.S. Body Politic?
Jeff Shesol reviews Rachel Maddow’s “Prequel” and Heather Cox Richardson’s “Democracy Awakening,” two new books about plots against America hatched by homegrown autocrats.
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