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Susan Glasser

@sbg1.bsky.social
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Staff writer @newyorker, proud wife of @peterbakernyt and mom of @tab_delete, co-author, "Kremlin Rising," "The Man Who Ran Washington," and "The Divider: Trump in the White House."

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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really enjoyed this podcast convo with @sykescharlie.bsky.social
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"So many Republican candidates in recent days have broken with Trump that it’s as if a secret memo went out announcing that the floodgates were officially open," writes @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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The Week Republicans Finally Panicked About Trump
President Trump is deeply unpopular and trapped in an unwon war of his own choosing. A reckoning—one far harsher than was expected, even a few months ago—seems imminent, Susan B. Glasser writes.
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The week the Republicans finally panicked about the midterms… My new column — first one back from book leave — is up @newyorker www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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The Week Republicans Finally Panicked About Trump
President Trump is deeply unpopular and trapped in an unwon war of his own choosing. A reckoning—one far harsher than was expected, even a few months ago—seems imminent, Susan B. Glasser writes.
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The week the Republicans finally panicked about the midterms… My new column — first one back from book leave — is up @newyorker www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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The Week Republicans Finally Panicked About Trump
President Trump is deeply unpopular and trapped in an unwon war of his own choosing. A reckoning—one far harsher than was expected, even a few months ago—seems imminent, Susan B. Glasser writes.
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In any other time, the story of a Trump wedding lavishly bankrolled by a Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch would be weather-changing; a consuming multi-month festering scandal, bipartisan outrage, and impeachment. charliesykes.substack.com/p/don-jrs-de...
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Don Jr’s “Dear Friend” is a Shady Russian Thug Straight from Central Casting
Putin crony bankrolls Trump Crime family wedding.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Here you have it -- an ALL NEW @talkingfeds.bsky.social with @sbg1.bsky.social, #AsteadHerndon, and @juliettekayyem.bsky.social. We break down Trump’s return to war with Iran, Hegseth’s obfuscations about American casualties, and pivotal Senate fights in Maine and Michigan. youtu.be/mFcrBN7Lb4E
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
#FirstAmendment. If journalists won’t stand up for it, hard to ask everyone else to.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"He's a lying motherfucker," Lindsey Graham once told @sbg1.bsky.social and me about Trump, but he's "a lot of fun to hang out with." How a Never Trumper senator ended up becoming the Trump whisperer on Capitol Hill. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/u...
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How Lindsey Graham’s Journey From Trump Critic to Ally Made Him a Power Player
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Trump is strikingly unpopular at both ends of the economic spectrum (via @wsj)
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Some nutty stuff in @maggieNYT @jonathanvswan book on Trump's failed effort to end Ukraine war, including Witkoff returning from Kremlin w/signed Putin doodle memorializing the "3+2" land for peace deal they wanted to force on Kyiv. Witkoff, touting "personal chemistry" with Putin, framed it.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Workers are adding a curtain obstructing the view of the removal of Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
NY friends, we're doing a special live taping of @newyorker.com Political Scene podcast with great colleagues @eosnos.bsky.social @janemayer.bsky.social and special guest David Remnick -- the boss! -- Thursday at 92Y please come! www.92ny.org/event/a-demo...
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
NY friends, we're doing a special live taping of @newyorker.com Political Scene podcast with great colleagues @eosnos.bsky.social @janemayer.bsky.social and special guest David Remnick -- the boss! -- Thursday at 92Y please come! www.92ny.org/event/a-demo...
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
OK, I did not predict this one...
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
NY friends, please come next Thursday 6/4 to a special live taping of @newyorker Political Scene podcast, 7:30 pm at 92Y... with special guest David Remnick joining our regular gang @eosnos @janemayernyer tickets here: www.92ny.org/event/a-demo...
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
NY friends, please come next Thursday 6/4 to a special live taping of @newyorker Political Scene podcast, 7:30 pm at 92Y... with special guest David Remnick joining our regular gang @eosnos @janemayernyer tickets here: www.92ny.org/event/a-demo...
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Incredible to see @tab-delete.bsky.social interviewed by Mary Louise Kelly at Politics & Prose about HOW TO RULE THE WORLD. Seems like yesterday I was bringing him there to get the latest Magic Treehouse book…!
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Sad to mark the end of an era tonight. Was honored to have appeared once on the show in March 2020–the very last time anyone went anywhere for a very long time…
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Can’t wait! NY friends, please come join us:
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A GOVERNMENT OF LAWS NOT MEN -- JOHN ADAMS (projected tonight on Donald Trump's large face outside the Department of Justice)
A GOVERNMENT OF LAWS NOT MEN

-- JOHN ADAMS

(projected tonight on Donald Trump's large face outside the Department of Justice)
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Not for the first time in Trump 2.0 and not, surely, for the last, asking: How can this possibly be legal?
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Bravo @tab-delete.bsky.social “Baker pursues the story like a campus reincarnation of Woodward and Bernstein.” Gift Article www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...
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The Secret Elite One Freshman Discovered at Stanford
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/05/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “We are the first college class of the A.I. era — ChatGPT arrived on campus about two months after we did,” writes Theo Baker, a graduating senior at Stanford. “For all of us, A.I. has permanently changed how we think and behave.”
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Opinion | What A.I. Did to My College Class
Lessons from the first graduating A.I. class.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"I watched a freshman I knew sign the declaration that he’d done his homework without A.I. as ChatGPT was still open in the next window—while on the deck of a yacht party financed by venture capitalists," @tab_delete.bsky.social writes. College in the A.I. Era. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...
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Opinion | What A.I. Did to My College Class
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Excited for Tuesday’s release from @tab-delete.bsky.social…!
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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
"What Donald Trump has made very clear is that no matter what's written on paper, no matter what laws are passed by Congress, there are no permanent commitments or alliances, as far as he's concerned," @sbg1.bsky.social says.
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Excited for Tuesday’s release from @tab-delete.bsky.social…!
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Thanks for talking with us about the age of the billionaires…
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
"Two hundred and fifty years into the American experiment, it turns out that it takes a King to tell us how to run our Republic," writes @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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In Trump’s America, It Takes a King to Praise Democracy
During the royal visit, we saw “a King who venerates the American Bill of Rights and a President who, increasingly, rejects it,” Susan B. Glasser writes.
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The President who would be a monarch may have been dazzled by the King, but it's the modern-day Tsar whose policies and power he prefers... my column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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In Trump’s America, It Takes a King to Praise Democracy
During the royal visit, we saw “a King who venerates the American Bill of Rights and a President who, increasingly, rejects it,” Susan B. Glasser writes.
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between Trump in negotiating mode and Trump in meltdown mode… My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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Trump and the Iran Deal That Wasn’t
It’s tough to reach an agreement with a President whose word is not his bond.
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between Trump in negotiating mode and Trump in meltdown mode… My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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Trump and the Iran Deal That Wasn’t
It’s tough to reach an agreement with a President whose word is not his bond.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
At 250 feet tall, Trump's arch would be the biggest such structure in the world. Asked last fall what this modern-day arch was meant to commemorate, Trump pointed to himself and replied, “Me.” @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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Trump Thinks He’s Become Orange Jesus
In Trump 1.0, people mocked the President by calling him Orange Jesus. In Trump 2.0, he actually thinks he’s become Jesus, Susan B. Glasser writes.
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
America’s Orange Jesus… My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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Trump Thinks He’s Become Orange Jesus
In Trump 1.0, people mocked the President by calling him Orange Jesus. In Trump 2.0, he actually thinks he’s become Jesus, Susan B. Glasser writes.
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
If this is winning, I'd hate to see what losing looks like... my new column on Trump's Iran-war folly: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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The Costs of Trump’s Iran-War Folly
If this is “total and complete victory,” imagine what failure looks like.
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
My new column:
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal. Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.
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White House Secures Foreign Steel for Ballroom Project
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Brian Taylor @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is from @peterbakernyt.bsky.social and @sbg1.bsky.social and bears re-reading when thinking about civil-military relations with Trump as president.
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Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals
How Mark Milley and others in the Pentagon handled the national-security threat posed by their own Commander-in-Chief.
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Brian Taylor @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
As someone who teaches civil-military relations I kinda hate this advice in the abstract, but under the circumstances I hope Caine is familiar with the advice Robert Gates gave Milley in the last months of Trump I.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Is the media sane-washing a mad president ? @lionelbarber.bsky.social and I are joined by @sbg1.bsky.social to discuss how to cover an unstable world leader www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...?
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Susan Glasser on Trump: ‘The big, fat, naked emperor in the room’
The New Yorker columnist discusses how the media should respond to the president
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Oly Backstrom @olybackstrom.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Sometimes you have to hear it plainly, and @sbg1.bsky.social stated it plainly in @newyorker.com’s The Political Scene podcast: “Donald Trump is a rogue president, and he has now made the United States of America a rogue superpower.” (Apr 3 episode, a good listen www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...)
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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
"Nineteen minutes long, that address was from the White House. It really was basically a 19-minute-long Truth Social post instead of a meaningful strategy for why [Trump has] taken such a consequential decision that has plunged the global economy into turmoil," said @sbg1.bsky.social.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 02/04/2026
Trump’s comments about the war in Iran have been contradictory, confusing, or outright false. Last night’s speech was no exception, @sbg1.bsky.social writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/M2ikVY
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Trump’s case for war fails to mention how to win it… My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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Trump’s Case for War Fails to Mention How to Win It
The President poses an existential question: Can everything be going according to the plan with Iran if there is no plan?
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Trump has always wanted to end NATO. Is the Iran war giving him the pretext for the breakup he's long dreamed of? my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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Is Donald Trump Finally Breaking Up with Europe?
It would certainly be bizarre if Donald Trump’s breakup with Europe “finally happened over a war of choice in the Middle East, launched by a President who came into office vowing not to start new wars...
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
When it comes to NATO, Trump sounds like "a man whose next call might be to his divorce lawyer," writes @sbg1.bsky.social. For a decade he has been looking for a pretext to break up with the allies and it looks like the Iran war may be it. www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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Donald Trump Is Breaking Up with Europe
And the war in Iran is helping him do it.
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Argo F--- Yourself, Trump... quite the piece from the writer of the movie Argo on how and why America in the Middle East just never learns: airmail.news/issues/2026-...
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The "Argo" Screenwriter on Why America Still Hasn't Learned Its Lesson in Iran
The Oscar winner argues that ignorance has pushed the U.S. into yet another war of choice in the Middle East.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
WSJ: Pentagon Sends Marine Expeditionary Unit to Middle East

Pentagon Sends Marine Expeditionary
Unit to Middle East
By Lara Seligman
The Pentagon is moving a Marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East, as Iran steps up its attacks on the Strait of Hormuz, according to two U.S. officials.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved a request from U.S. Central Command, responsible for American forces in the Middle East, for the expeditionary unit, typically consisting of up to 2,500 Marines, the officials said.
The move comes as Iran's attacks on the strait have paralyzed traffic through the strategic waterway, disrupting the global economy, driving up gas prices and posing a major military and political challenge for President Trump. A Pentagon spokesperson declined to comment.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
"Only seven out of his 53 posts since Monday morning, or 13%, were about the war": Trump seems uninterested in discussing Iran even as it consumes his presidency. @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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The War Trump Doesn’t Want to Talk About
“We won,” the President who’s treating the conflict with Iran like a video game says, but “we’re not finished yet.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“.. There’s no point in deceiving ourselves: Trump now sounds little different than Vladimir Putin in how he justifies the conflict—and in how much power he has claimed for himself to dictate America’s participation in it.” @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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