FRESH HELL Tina Brown's Diary

FRESH HELL Tina Brown's Diary

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Why MAGA is Right about Jeffrey Epstein
It’s rare that I agree with the MAGA conspiracy theory loonies, but, in the case of the Epstein files, they deserve an answer about why the full folder…
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Orange Lotus: How the Trump Show Outwits Reality
One thing you have to acknowledge about Trump is that he understands the press so much better than the press understands him.
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My Video Chat with former Wing founder Audrey Gelman about reinvention, the lure of nostalgia, and the future of feminism.
I have admired Audrey since she took flight with the Wing and am enjoying seeing her major pivot as an entrepreneur.
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June 2025

Sunday Read: Sex and Soft Power, The Book Everyone is Reading this Summer
For some reason, everyone I know on both sides of the Atlantic seems to be devouring Kingmaker by Sonia Purnell, the biography of the famed political…
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My Video Chat with the brilliant David Frum from the Atlantic on why Billionaires Go Bonkers
David and I go back to my Daily Beast years and we’ve remained friends ever since.
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The Bezos Bunker-Buster Wedding, and Big-Time Women Relegated to the Happy-Face Sidelines
If men have become addicted to the manosphere, their female counterparts are endlessly distracted by the glamosphere.
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Weekend Read: When Princess Diana Dropped the Mask
My take on Dianaworld, a new biography about Diana that I couldn’t resist reviewing for one of my favorite brainy Brit mags, The New Statesman
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My Video Chat with the Foreign Policy Wise Man Richard Haass
I spoke with my friend Richard, author of Substack’s Home and Away and the celebrated President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations about why…
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The Trump/Bibi Duet
Whatever unfolds next in the Iran/Israel conflict, alpha egos will play as big a part in the outcome as geopolitics.
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My Video Chat with the Mighty Preet Bharara about the LA Mayhem and What the Dems Should Do
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Trump’s Flash-Bang Fakery, and the CEO who was the Master of Disaster
My big worry for Dems at the moment is not the danger of the wrong response to the LA protests, but getting mired in the return of deported Salvadoran…
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Big Beautiful Bullshit, America’s Game-Show Government, and London Glee About Zelensky
So now Congress is so sloppy and moronic they don’t even pretend to read the bills they vote for.
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