The Good in Us

I just arrived in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention. The team and I will be here for the whole week, so let me know in the comments if there’s any Democrat or pundit you want to hear from, or any behind-the-scenes information you want to know. I’ll be checking in with you all a couple of times a day. This is going to be historic! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this...

At the end of a truly stunning and historic day, I wanted to share some thoughts about what we owe Pres. Biden, how we got here, and where we’re going. As difficult as it was to hear that Pres. Biden is stepping down (and, perhaps, the reason he is), we needed certainty. I know Vice President Kamala Harris’ candidacy is not a done deal, but I believe the party will unite behind. Now that we are on...

MARY As promised, I am here with Michelle Kinney and Tara Setmayer, the co-founders of the absolutely essential and awesome super Pac, the Seneca Project. Welcome to you both, and first, before we even start, I just want to congratulate you on a phenomenal rollout and for coming up with this idea. Tara friend and fellow Nerd Avenger, it's one of those things that, until it happens, you don't reali...

This has been a long time coming, but finally the Nerd Avengers are back for good and we have a new home— Mary Trump Media on YouTube ! We’re kicking off tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. ET with live analysis of Donald’s criminal trial in New York City. The Supreme Court also starts handing down its decisions tomorrow so we will update you about that as well. Starting next week, the Nerd Avengers’ regular sh...

Apologies for the light posting. I’ve been working on a deadline so, in the meantime, I wanted to flag this interview that I did this afternoon with Jim Acosta, plus a bonus transcript for anybody who prefers to read. Enjoy! JIM ACOSTA Right now, joining me now is the niece, former President Trump, Mary Trump. Mary, great to have you back on the program. Really appreciate your time. You heard what...

That was a spring of storms. They prowled the night;Low level lightning flickered in the eastContinuous. The white pear-blossom gleamedMotionless in the flashes; birds were still;Darkness and silence knotted to suspense,Riven by the premonitory glintOf skulking storm . . . from “The Land,” Vita Sackville-West* When I woke up this morning, it felt like a storm of spring with temperatures in the mid...

Last night I had a fascinating conversation with David Cay Johnston, an investigative reporter and writer who knows more about Donald and his businesses that almost everybody on the planet. But first I had a few things to say about American corporations: A couple of days ago every single Republican on the Senate Banking Committee opposed the nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin to be the Federal Reser...

When a friend of mine told me she was obsessed with Liz Phair’s newly released debut album, Exile in Guyville (1993), I had no idea what she was talking about. She and I had very different tastes so I wasn’t sure if I’d like the album at all and the first time I listened I didn’t really get it. I liked a couple of songs enough to keep listening, though. And then I was hooked, too. Phair could swit...

 “It is a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt in history — and remember, I can't get a fair hearing in New York because of the hatred of me by Judges and the judiciary. It is not possible!" So said the most whiny purveyor of grievance after NY State Judge Arthur Engeron ruled that Donald, Donny, and Ivanka must hand over documents requested by NY Attorney General Letitia James within 14 days a...

Suzanne Vega’s first album seemed to create a seismic shift in the 1980s music scene. Everything at the time was glossy, flashy, and big —from the hair, to the production values, to the flipping shoulder pads. And then in 1985 along came the eponymous Suzanne Vega . The album could have been dismissed as a derivative anachronism (which it wasn’t) but the songs were so intimate and so spare that so...

BUT FIRST, A NIGHT CAP At his Klan rally last weekend in Arizona, Donald said, “The left is now rationing lifesaving therapeutics based on race, discriminating against and denigrating ... white people to determine who lives and who dies. If you’re white, you don’t get the vaccine or if you’re white, you don’t get therapeutics. ... In New York State, if you’re white, you have to go to the back of t...

I first heard Laurie Anderson’s Strange Angels in 1989, the year it was released. I found it—and her—captivating: mostly the cleverness of the lyrics and her willingness to be completely untethered from reality in a way that always felt spontaneous and sincere. From there I worked my way back to her 1982 studio album Big Science which was a revelation. Eventually I memorized every lyric to the son...

For over an hour I got to hang out with my favorite tennis player, whom I grew up watching play my favorite sport at the most elite level imaginable against my other most favorite tennis player, Chris Evert. Martina and I cover everything from her immense influence on women’s tennis, to the greatest rivalry in the history of sport (those glorious 80 matches between her and Evert!), the disturbing...

The music of The Who was in the background of my childhood. Tommy was one of two 8-tracks my dad always had in his beat-up Ford LTD (the other was Jesus Christ Superstar ), and I received the double-album for Christmas when I was 11. Despite that, and the obsession some of my friend’s older siblings had with the band (particularly the album Who’s Next ), I didn’t really get into The Who until I fi...

One of the things I most resent about the four interminable years of the Trump administration is the proliferation of mind-bogglingly unworthy people who were elevated to positions of power. It would be preferable to dismiss them as idiots unworthy of our time and attention but ignoring them is dangerous—and their numbers continue to grow. Their most recent addition is double-murderer Kyle Rittenh...

I moved to Long Island in 1993, but because I was taking classes at Teacher’s College on the Upper West Side, I was in the city a few days every week. On a particularly stunning late spring day, I walked down Broadway from 125th Street to the Tower Records on the corner of Broadway and 66th Street. I wasn’t looking for any music in particular that day, but I was drawn to a large display of the alb...

There is a lot of bad news out there and no shortage of awful people doing bad things. On Molly Jong-Fast’s great podcast The New Abnormal they have the “Fuck that guy” segment to highlight the awful people and on Joy Reid’s The Reid Out she offers the “Absolute Worst.” For balance I’d like, once a week, to focus instead on people who are fighting the good fight. I’ll let you know who my Good Guy...

Although I’ve been interviewed a lot since July 2020, only once has an interview been in person—my sit-down with George Stephanopoulos on July 16 of last year. That changed on November 16, 2021 when I met with Mary McDonnell at the Lucerne Hotel on the Upper West side in Manhattan. The first time I saw Mary McDonnell as an actor was in the sitcom E/R , which aired from 1984-1985. I watched the re-...

This is actually what the sky in New York City looked like tonight. It reminded me of a JMW Turner painting I saw at the Tate Gallery a few decades ago, strangely dramatic and calming. I’ll probably mention this a lot but I am inexpressibly grateful to live in the best city on the planet. As for my news, I started a podcast and the first episode dropped on Wednesday. Please listen to and follow th...

Click here to read the post . NOW WITH AUDIO! I’ve been wanting to do this for awhile but there’s been a fair amount going on behind the scenes. I’ll bring you all up to speed later, in the meantime I plan to make recordings of one or two older post everyday until I’m caught up. Sebastian hopes you enjoy his cameo. He had some things to say—now he’s resting. And I hope you enjoy the audio! This is...