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Steven Beschloss
@stevenbeschloss
Writer, journalist, editor, filmmaker, prof
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Writer, journalist, editor, filmmaker, prof. Author of book about Lee Harvey Oswald, "The Gunman & His Mother." Articles/essays seen in Washington Post, New Yorker, Smithsonian, New Republic, New York Times and many others. Writing/publishing America, America on politics and society, democracy and justice: america.substack.com. Opinions here: solely mine.
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Democracy is Not the Top Priority at The New York Times
By Steven Beschloss Today’s installment of our 5-minute video series “Media Misses” looks at New York Times ’ executive editor Joe Kahn’s interview in which he says the preservation of democracy is not the biggest issue for the Times . Kahn makes the questionable statement that immi How Much Lying Can You Tolerate? (audio)
By Steven Beschloss Dear Friend, On this Holocaust Remembrance Day , I’d like to take a moment to share with you the heartfelt words of President Joe Biden delivered at the U.S. Capitol’s Emancipation Hall. This was an opportunity to remember what happened, to assert that forgetting The Roiling Body Politic
By Steven Beschloss Across the country, over 2,000 pro-Palestinian protestors have faced arrest on dozens of college campuses, causing turmoil and flashes of violence as the schools prepare for graduation. At the risk of suspension, expulsion and felony charges, many of these stud How Much Lying Can America Tolerate?
By Steven Beschloss It still boggles the mind. Over the course of the Trump presidency, The Washington Post chronicled over 30,000 lies—30,573 to be exact. That is an average of about 21 a day. And as those four years unfolded, the “false claims” became more frequent: An average o “God help us,” former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly said of his former boss. “It will take more than divine intervention to ensure a man like this never sees the inside of the Oval Office again. It will take all of us—and tens of millions of others who decide that they will vote How Unfit? Dangerously Unfit
By Steven Beschloss Time magazine put Donald Trump on its cover this week with an unavoidable title: “If He Wins.” What readers find inside and online is a detailed article that largely matches the dangers plotted by “Project 2025” and its authoritarian agenda to move the country A Matter of Character (audio)
By Steven Beschloss Dear Friend, I’m happy to be sharing this audio version of Monday’s post (read aloud by me) with the plan of producing these more regularly in the coming months as we head toward the November elections. These are an extra benefit for paid subscribers. Since Monda A Matter of Character
By Steven Beschloss For the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon campaign , the Democratic Party released a poster with an image of a slick and smiling Richard Nixon and this question: “Would you buy a used car from this man?” That anti-Nixon poster re-emerged when Nixon made another run for the Whi Recording: A Conversation with Steven Beschloss and Steve Schmidt
By Steven Beschloss Thanks so much to those who were able to join the engaging discussion I had on Wednesday night with my fellow Substack author Steve Schmidt, who writes the compelling The Warning with Steve Schmidt . If you’re a free subscriber, here’s a brief clip from that conv How Broken is the Supreme Court?
By Steven Beschloss I had the opportunity yesterday to talk to Tristan Snell, a former Assistant Attorney General for New York State and author of the excellent Taking Down Trump about his successful prosecution of Donald Trump and Trump University. He was as disturbed as I was ab A World of Criminality
By Steven Beschloss What is this era of criminality that has beset our body politic? What has gone so wrong that, everywhere we turn, we see the need for criminal proceedings to address the behavior of the man who occupied our White House and his craven operatives who supported hi Think your vote doesn’t matter? AZ AG Kris Mayes, who just announced the indictment of fake electors and the WH advisors (including the despicable Rudy Guiliani), won by 280 votes. There’d be no indictment or investigation if Democrat Mayes lost. Media Misses: It’s a travesty how criminal defendant Trump pushes “law and order”
By Steven Beschloss Today’s Media Misses video looks at a New York Times story about how Donald Trump—facing 88 felony counts—pushes a law-and-order message and portrays himself as on the same side as law enforcement. But it’s not ironic. It’s just dishonest and exploitative. Watch Conversation Tonight with Steve Schmidt
By Steven Beschloss Dear Friend, Tonight is my live conversation with Steve Schmidt—from 8-9PM ET—an exclusive for paid subscribers. This promises to be an insightful conversation about the election, the Trump criminal trial and more. And—if you’re not already—there’s still time to Why Community Matters
By Steven Beschloss Sometimes I hear criticism that I’m just preaching to the choir. As if in times like these growing our choir—one that harmonizes well and motivates others to join in—doesn’t matter so much. But we have to keep expanding our numbers—it’s important to connect with Can the Judicial System Be the Winner in the Case Against Trump?
By Steven Beschloss Rarely ever has Donald Trump —who behaves like a cruel and petulant child that lacks discipline and the capacity to treat others with respect—been required to sit still, follow the rules and take orders from a man who sits above him, wears a robe and wields a ga Three Things Making Me Mad (Right Now)
By Steven Beschloss I gave a speech last night on democracy and the threat of fascism. I was grateful for the opportunity. But there were a number of troubling facts that ended up on the cutting room floor. So I thought to share with you a handful that are making me mad right now. As disgusted as I am that a man like Trump continues to have such power, I’m more sickened by all the Republican enablers who continue to back him. It will take an overwhelming defeat in November to begin to put a stop to this cancerous malignancy. Donald Trump, Criminal Defendant
By Steven Beschloss When Richard Nixon died on Friday April 22, 1994, his obituaries made clear in their headlines which of his actions secured his place in history. The New York Times referred to “A Master of Politics Undone by Watergate.” The Washington Post noted that Nixon was “I try to imagine how our body politic can begin to repair itself when the leaders of one of its two major parties have abandoned factual reality and remain wedded to spreading poisonous lies. I am increasingly convinced that it will require their total defeat before another wave
