Please listen. Super smart, inspiring and practical. And it doesn't rely on the Democratic Party... @janemayer.bsky.social @eosnos.bsky.social @sbg1.bsky.social @hardymerriman.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

People keep asking “What can we do?” Our podcast guest, Hardy Merriman, studies resistance movements and has many suggestions.

The successful public backlash against silencing Jimmy Kimmel contains some big lessons on what works in the face of autocracy, as expert Hardy Merriman explains in this fascinating episode with my co-hosts @janemayer.bsky.social @sbg1.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

+1 Also, @hillaryclinton.bsky.social had some very interesting observations for us about the role of “losses” in the psychology of autocrats.

Looking forward to this!

I’m on the @newyorker.com Radio Hour with @eosnos.bsky.social this weekend, talking about Trump’s America and tech’s complicity in the admin’s agenda. So you know, all the fun stuff. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tny...

Interested in the future of local news? At @politicsprose.bsky.social 5p on Sat 8/23, Sarabeth Berman and Leonard Downie will discuss his new report on its value to democracy, the risk of news deserts, and many new ventures that have "sprouted across the country" politics-prose.com/leonard-downie

This really is a doozy

Fun, imminent event news: I'll be speaking in Nantucket tomorrow (Thu July 24), in conversation with Michael Schulder at the nantucketdreamland.bsky.social www.nantucketdreamland.org

Grateful to @bryanappleyard.bsky.social & The Literary Review for the deep read of my book on economic inequality. "Superb, dogged journalism. Osnos writes well and fact-checks his material obsessively. Furthermore, the issues he raises are profound." literaryreview.co.uk/stash-the-cash

One of the first things Vladimir Putin did on becoming president was take over NTV, the TV channel that hosted a satirical puppet show because he didn't like the Putin doll and how he was portrayed. He arrested NTV's owner and only released him when he signed the channel over. #Colbert

I'm not sure if people share stories here (or read the ones that are shared) but fwiw, I've got a new story out in @newyorker.com today that means a great deal to me. It's about a writer I love, and an amazing cache of long-lost photographs from WW1: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

A new collection of essays by New Yorker writer Evan Osnos, The Haves and Have-Yachts, provides rich research and material for the conversation about extreme wealth in America today.

The president is “rejecting the premise of oligarchy,” journalist and author Evan Osnos said on The Daily Beast podcast.

As the US bombs Iran, grateful for the wisdom of @ksadjadpour.bsky.social on this week’s New Yorker podcast with great colleagues @eosnos.bsky.social @janemayer.bsky.social Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

If you wonder how the A.I. era will affect economic inequality, consider this detail, out this week: "Meta has been making stunning offers to [A.I.] researchers, in some cases promising compensation packages as high as $100 million." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

Thanks @nytimes.com for naming my book to its recommended reads ("Toggling between extravagances like simulated World War II battles and dueling luxury disaster refuges, Osnos takes the reader deep into our new Gilded Age.") As it happens, front-page photo is a sign of the times:

Trump’s use of force was this week’s podcast. Join Susan Glasser @sbg1, Evan Osnos @eosnos and me as we confront the new reality of troops in our streets: www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...

Authors know that speaking at @politicsprose.bsky.social is like the bar mitzvah for your book. 7p tonight! politics-prose.com/evan-osnos

Good point -- but I would note that even Kim Jong Un doesn't go this far. A 2024 AP headline says it all: "North Korea’s Kim turns 40. But there are no public celebrations of his birthday." apnews.com/article/nort...

The US and China have a new framework to de-escalate. Whether that'll be durable is unclear. What is clear is that China can and will weaponize its export dominance. We discuss what the trade war teaches us about China's economy in our new RAND Commentary. www.rand.org/pubs/comment...

Out of the 109 DOGE staffers we've identified: • At least 38 currently work/have worked for businesses run by Musk • At least 23 are making cuts at agencies that regulate the industries that employed them • At least 12 remain, on paper, employees/advisors of the companies they worked at before DOGE

Real world: - Trump team trying to create a Reichstag moment. - Trump telling military audience that LA is hellhole full of "animals" - Officials in Calif trying both to calm things down, and stand up PUNDIT world: - Is it smart politics? - Is Gavin running? - Doesn't Trump look strong!

China-related event news: In DC on June 13th, I'll be asking the questions in a conversation with @jwassers.bsky.social, talking about China, access for research, and his fascinating new book "The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing" Details and location below

The president, a billionaire, just had a falling out with the world’s richest man. To @eosnos.bsky.social, Musk’s complaints about Trump sounded “like he was complaining about buying a defective product.” Billionaires having such sway, Osnos says, “doesn’t look a whole lot like democracy.” #Velshi

Re-posting bc the previous link was broken: Terrific to see this @financialtimes.com review of "the haves and have-yachts" ("a beautifully written and often amusing climb to the very top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.") www.ft.com/content/b577...

Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle. If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out. (2018) www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Looking forward to joining @velshi.com in the hour ahead

It felt like @janemayer.bsky.social and @sbg1.bsky.social and I have been training for years to talk about a Musk-Trump inferno--the vanity, the campaign finance, the history back to the Borgias, the Putinism of it all. www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...

This may be a good time to re-read Jeffrey Winters’ landmark study of oligarchy in which he explains why “ruling” oligarchies (e.g. the Mafia Commission) tend to devolve into “warring” oligarchies of the kind that defined medieval Europe.

It’s interesting to watch Musk, in image-rehabilitation mode, rapidly adopt a series of positions that polls plainly show will be popular: 3rd party, distance from Trump, etc. At this rate, by nightfall he’ll be tweeting: “who likes free pizza?”

A technique with a storied history. During Mao's Great Leap forward, his propagandists hailed one fantastical harvest after another, calling them “Sputnik harvests,” on par with the success of the Soviet satellite.

This comes on top of the 9 congressmen that Trump has pardoned in corruption cases. We'll be talking about pardons, pay-to-play, and what scholars call a "sultanistic oligarchy" when I visit Fairfield this Thursday June 5, for a book talk. Details here: www.shucommunitytheatre.org/all-events/j...

Congrats to great colleague/fellow podcaster @eosnos.bsky.social on his new book out today with the best title, ‘The Haves and the Have-Yachts,’ a summer must read for these oligarchic times

TONIGHT: @eosnos.bsky.social talks to @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

The Minnesota governor and former Democratic candidate for vice president will be preceded on stage on Sept. 12 by Evan Osnos of The New Yorker.

Kai Ryssdal zeroed in on the big question: Where is this headed? “As today's unfathomably rich get unfathomably richer, new book acts as a field guide to the modern elite” www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

“The economy of influence in Washington that Donald Trump has encouraged and generated is beyond even anything that people have seen. Even seasoned practitioners of lobbying … say this is staggering,” The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos said. abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/vid...

In the mid-60s, John McPhee published a book on frozen orange juice that read like a metaphor for mid-century America. (The same evaporators and science that had processed blood plasma and penicillin for soldiers now made shelf-stable juice.)

Well put. Great review (and illustration): “'The jump from believing yourself worthy of an enormous fortune to believing yourself broadly superior because of it is not a hard one to make.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Book-tour news: Very pleased to be speaking June 5th in Fairfield Connecticut, near my hometown, as part of @wshu.org public radio's "Join the Conversation" series. Details here: www.shucommunitytheatre.org/event-detail...

"It’s not clear that anyone wrote the study cited in the MAHA report." Wow. If these were freshman, caught using ChatGPT that made up bogus studies, they'd get flunked or worse. www.notus.org/health-scien...

This is the story of Elon Musk

Devastating, by @propublica.org Evidence of an American disgrace.

Always a great hang with @mollyjongfast.bsky.social

"Oligarchs can also be vulnerable to civil society. Popular movements in South Africa, Ukraine, and the Philippines demonstrate a pattern: sustained pressure—cross-class protests, labor strikes, investigative reporting—can chip away at self-enriching, inept regimes." Our best hope, Evan Osnos.

Around D.C., the new going rate is well-known: $5 million for a one-on-one dinner with Trump, but gov-affairs execs have “no clue where the money is eventually going,” one said. Another told me it’s “outer-borough Mafia sh*t.” My new piece is out @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

JD Vance takes pride in declaring himself to be a “Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart” but a trawl of genealogy records has found no evidence linking the US vice-president to Ireland

“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false. Credible estimates count 190K deaths so far. In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubio’s actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...

"It's hard to imagine a greater strategic gift to China than for the United States to sacrifice its role as a beacon to the world and a source of attraction for the most talented young people all over the world. They must be taking great satisfaction in seeing our society turn on itself ..."