Staff Writer @NewYorker. Fellow in the China Center @Brookingsinst. Latest book, "The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich" https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Haves-and-Have-Yachts/Evan-Osnos/9781668204481
Tomorrow: talking Trump-era corruption and the rise of trillionaire-politics with @edwardluce.bsky.social hosted by @bigtentusa.bsky.social 📅 June 17 | 7 PM ET | Virtual bigtentusa.org/event/the-ha... RSVP free: bigtentusa.org/event/the-ha... cc: @scribnerbooks.bsky.social
From Mar-a-Lago to Mega-Yachts: Trump and the New Gilded Age - BigTentUSAJoin BigTentUSA on Wednesday, June 17 at 7pm ET for a virtual conversation moderated by Financial Times US National Editor, Ed Luce, with acclaimed journalist and New Yorker staff writer […]bigtentusa.orgWatching Trump’s visit here in Beijing reminded me that the CIA once did a classified study called “Chinese Political Negotiating Behavior." It explained the use of “gratitude, dependence, awe, and helplessness.” Its key advice: “Resist the flattery.” My dispatch: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.comIndeed. Our podcast this week is on precisely the power of this message. In Hungary, the anti-corruption message hit Orban hard.
Kevin M. KruseAbsolutely. "These people are stealing your tax money, robbing you of services you paid for to enrich themselves. I will stop that." That's a pretty simple and effective message.
Friends in Amsterdam, I'll be speaking Mon April 13th at the John Adams Institute, on "Shadows of the American Dream: On Inequality, Ambitions and Opportunity" www.john-adams.nl/evan-osnos/
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Aaron RuparTrump: "I'm the only president that ever took a cognitive test. I took it 3 times. It's actually a very hard test for a lot of people. It wasn't hard for me. It starts off with an easy question and by the time you get to the middle it gets tougher -- mathematical equations and things."
"Tell me how this ends?" In an emergency Iran-edition of the Washington Roundtable from @newyorker.com, @janemayer.bsky.social @sbg1.bsky.social and I dig into the rationales, the blind spots, the finances, and the key lessons from Vietnam to Iraq and beyond swap.fm/l/tny-tps-Awdxs
swap.fmFor what lies ahead in Iran, listen to David Remnick's interview (posted Friday) with Karim Sadjadpour, who has long predicted "the autumn of the ayatollahs" but warns "The last two decades has proven that we don't have the ability to dictate our preferred outcome." www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
What Could Go Wrong, or Right, in a War with IranThe foreign-policy analyst Karim Sadjadpour on what it would mean for the United States to pursue regime change in Iran, once again.www.newyorker.comMaybe a good moment to listen to this podcast on the historical pattern in which a frantic autocrat--advised by only cowering, compromised toadies--waddles into a flood of self-destructive choices. Mussolini invaded Ethiopia, then allied with Hitler, and so on www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...
PBS NewsPresident Donald Trump said Saturday that he wants a global tariff of 15%, up from 10% he had announced a day earlier after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down many of the far-reaching taxes on imports that he had imposed over the last year. https://to.pbs.org/4kObEMh
Fascinating history of strongmen: The dopamine hit from power and impunity is intoxicating, but, craving a bigger hit, you go nuts -- and you lose the public. That's "autocratic backfire." With @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social @sbg1.bsky.social @janemayer.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...
What Happens When a Megalomaniac Begins to FailThe historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Donald Trump and “autocratic backfire.”www.newyorker.comIn the Epstein era "wealth and ostentation are all too often associated w/ social status, unchecked privilege, and unaccountability...money can seemingly buy—or buy off—virtually anything, and ethical qualms are for the weak-minded." by @johncassidysays.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
Jeffrey Epstein’s Bonfire of the ÉlitesHis correspondence illuminates a rarefied world in which money can seemingly buy—or buy off—virtually anything, and ethical qualms are for the weak-minded.www.newyorker.comChina hands in NYC Feb 18: Come hear the amazing story of Jimmy Lai: "billionaire businessman...who became China’s most famous political prisoner." I'll interview biographer @marklclifford.bsky.social who heads @thecfhk.bsky.social Details @cuny.edu's @biographyctr www.gc.cuny.edu/events/troub...
The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire...and China's Most Feared Critic - Mark Clifford in Conversation with Evan OsnosElebash Recital Hallwww.gc.cuny.eduA masterclass by @vermontgmg.bsky.social on how ICE/CBP became so specifically incompetent and violent. Unintelligent design--capped off by a fateful order from Stephen Miller. w @janemayer.bsky.social @sbg1.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
From 9/11 to Minneapolis: How ICE Became a Paramilitary ForcePodcast Episode · The Political Scene | The New Yorker · 01/30/2026 · 30mpodcasts.apple.comTalked about Xi Jinping, Taiwan, etc with Jon Finer and Jake Sullivan, who've met with a lot of senior Chinese officials, including (now-purged) Gen. Zhang Youxia. Zhang stood out for going off-script open.spotify.com/show/6Df7AyU...
Does China’s Military Purge Raise the Risk Over Taiwan? (with Evan Osnos)open.spotify.comA government can only go to war against its citizens if it can afford to ignore them. The road to Minneapolis ran through the gilded line-up beside Trump at Inauguration. Oligarchy is the timely topic this Fri/Sat at an amazing event, details here @ucirvine.bsky.social sites.uci.edu/forum/
Wow. A moment in Robert Worth's dispatch from Minneapolis. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Local Newspapers Are Closing. Local News Is Surviving. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
Opinion | Local Newspapers Are Closing. Local News Is Surviving.www.nytimes.comI can't remember the last time that a political conversation hit me harder than this week's roundtable on Venezuela, Minneapolis, and the blaring alarms of history. With my amazing colleagues @janemayer.bsky.social and @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...
Is Donald Trump Creating the Conditions for Another World War?“What you’re seeing both abroad and at home are completely optional conflicts created by the character of the President,” Jane Mayer says.www.newyorker.com