Eyal Press
@epress.bsky.social
Contributing writer at The New Yorker, Puffin fellow at Type Media Center, author (Dirty Work, Beautiful Souls), long-suffering Bills fan.
This both-sides’ing would not be applied to any other country carrying out such a lawless campaign.
October 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This both-sides’ing would not be applied to any other country carrying out such a lawless campaign.
A dangerous quack lies shamelessly about an unprecedented assault on science and public health, this is how it is blandified.
September 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
A dangerous quack lies shamelessly about an unprecedented assault on science and public health, this is how it is blandified.
How to portray an authoritarian assault on public health, independent expertise and the truth as a reasonable undertaking that “some critics” find troubling.
August 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
How to portray an authoritarian assault on public health, independent expertise and the truth as a reasonable undertaking that “some critics” find troubling.
‘His volatile side,’ reducing unhinged autocratic behavior to a personality trait.
August 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
‘His volatile side,’ reducing unhinged autocratic behavior to a personality trait.
Excited to read the Democratic National Committee’s searching examination of the 2024 election, an autopsy that “will avoid addressing the likeliest or leading causes of death.”
July 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Excited to read the Democratic National Committee’s searching examination of the 2024 election, an autopsy that “will avoid addressing the likeliest or leading causes of death.”
A reader responds to the patronizing ‘incredibly disingenuous’ advice Thomas Friedman gives Mamdani on Israel.
July 16, 2025 at 11:35 PM
A reader responds to the patronizing ‘incredibly disingenuous’ advice Thomas Friedman gives Mamdani on Israel.
The most scathing paragraphs in Omer Bartov’s searing op-ed in today’s @nytimes.com.
July 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The most scathing paragraphs in Omer Bartov’s searing op-ed in today’s @nytimes.com.
A Times reader watching masked ICE agents hunt down immigrants in unmarked cars is reminded of her childhood in Spain, under Franco.
July 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM
A Times reader watching masked ICE agents hunt down immigrants in unmarked cars is reminded of her childhood in Spain, under Franco.
A welcome response to Amy Coney Barrett’s awful ruling, issued by a radical leftist federal judge who was appointed by George W. Bush.
July 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A welcome response to Amy Coney Barrett’s awful ruling, issued by a radical leftist federal judge who was appointed by George W. Bush.
Readers of @nytimes.com not mincing words about the paper’s latest story on Mamdani.
July 4, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Readers of @nytimes.com not mincing words about the paper’s latest story on Mamdani.
File under talk is cheap.
July 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
File under talk is cheap.
Just another day on which ICE agents rough up New York city’s comptroller.
June 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just another day on which ICE agents rough up New York city’s comptroller.
A US Senator handcuffed to the ground to prevent him from asking questions at a news conference is definitely a sign of something, but “rising political tensions” is not that thing.
June 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
A US Senator handcuffed to the ground to prevent him from asking questions at a news conference is definitely a sign of something, but “rising political tensions” is not that thing.
Key detail buried in this story. Something tells me the Trump administration won’t be going after the top executives at Tyson anytime soon.
June 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Key detail buried in this story. Something tells me the Trump administration won’t be going after the top executives at Tyson anytime soon.
A headline that perfectly sums up where we are.
May 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
A headline that perfectly sums up where we are.
Staggering chart that shows how Trump’s “big beautiful bill” will devastate the after-tax income of the bottom 20 percent of Americans while benefiting the usual suspects (the 0.1%), far more than his 2017 tax bill did.
May 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Staggering chart that shows how Trump’s “big beautiful bill” will devastate the after-tax income of the bottom 20 percent of Americans while benefiting the usual suspects (the 0.1%), far more than his 2017 tax bill did.
Kudos to The Times and to Eric Lipton & co for exposing the dizzying array of self-enrichment schemes that Trump and his sons have launched, which has no precedent in U.S. history.
May 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Kudos to The Times and to Eric Lipton & co for exposing the dizzying array of self-enrichment schemes that Trump and his sons have launched, which has no precedent in U.S. history.
This is an astonishing story about how the Trump family is using the White House to cash in on crypto deals that hinge on policies the White House is making. The blatant disregard for conflicts of interest, to say nothing of the greed, is wild, even by Trumpian standards.
May 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This is an astonishing story about how the Trump family is using the White House to cash in on crypto deals that hinge on policies the White House is making. The blatant disregard for conflicts of interest, to say nothing of the greed, is wild, even by Trumpian standards.
This exchange in the Chotiner interview with Deborah Lipstadt is particularly rich and revealing.
April 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This exchange in the Chotiner interview with Deborah Lipstadt is particularly rich and revealing.
The capitulation of the Republican Party, the tech billionaires and the elite law firms to Trump’s assault on democracy is reprehensible, and easy to denounce, but this, from Randall Kennedy, is more troubling.
April 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The capitulation of the Republican Party, the tech billionaires and the elite law firms to Trump’s assault on democracy is reprehensible, and easy to denounce, but this, from Randall Kennedy, is more troubling.
Note the conditional language in today’s New York Times story on Trump’s defiance of the courts: “edged the administration closer to… could threaten the constitutional balance of power…” As the facts relayed in the story make perfectly clear, the threat has already been realized.
April 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Note the conditional language in today’s New York Times story on Trump’s defiance of the courts: “edged the administration closer to… could threaten the constitutional balance of power…” As the facts relayed in the story make perfectly clear, the threat has already been realized.
Asha Rangappa, assistant dean at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, rightly underscoring why the emergency we are in is “as much about Congress’s failure to act” as about Trump’s defiance of the courts (from her excellent & chilling conversation with Ezra Klein).
April 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Asha Rangappa, assistant dean at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, rightly underscoring why the emergency we are in is “as much about Congress’s failure to act” as about Trump’s defiance of the courts (from her excellent & chilling conversation with Ezra Klein).
This is the dangerous antisemite ICE just arrested.
April 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
This is the dangerous antisemite ICE just arrested.
Unlike some US media outlets, Amos Harel of Haaretz does not mince words about why the ceasefire collapsed: Netanyahu chose this path, in the hope of hastening “a gradual slide toward an authoritarian-style regime, whose survival he will try to secure through perpetual war on multiple fronts.”
March 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Unlike some US media outlets, Amos Harel of Haaretz does not mince words about why the ceasefire collapsed: Netanyahu chose this path, in the hope of hastening “a gradual slide toward an authoritarian-style regime, whose survival he will try to secure through perpetual war on multiple fronts.”