Kurt Andersen
@kurtandersen.bsky.social
Novelist and historian: The Breakup (2026), Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, Heyday, Turn of the Century, etc. Co-created Command Z (with Steven Soderbergh) and Studio 360, New Yorker writer, New York editor-in-chief, Spy co-founder https://www.kurtandersen.com
My auto-boilerplate for all such binary left-right Whither Democrats journalism. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
My auto-boilerplate for all such binary left-right Whither Democrats journalism. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
Another interesting historical fact from @pbump: 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝘂𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻, 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁.
November 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Another interesting historical fact from @pbump: 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝘂𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻, 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁.
In Evil Geniuses I explain how big business and the rich since 1980 have used complex, obscure tax and other systemic changes to keep making the rich richer and our economy more and more unfair and unaffordable to most Americans.
They just did it again. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
They just did it again. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
In Evil Geniuses I explain how big business and the rich since 1980 have used complex, obscure tax and other systemic changes to keep making the rich richer and our economy more and more unfair and unaffordable to most Americans.
They just did it again. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
They just did it again. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
Happy that he lost. Happy that these guys wasted $55 million. Happy that money failed to buy an election. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/c...
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Happy that he lost. Happy that these guys wasted $55 million. Happy that money failed to buy an election. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/c...
Good, informative piece. Americans could have nice things too! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Good, informative piece. Americans could have nice things too! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Hilarious panicky confusion from Ohio’s Republican governor nominee Ramaswamy: the party raising prices of imports and about to make health care impossibly unaffordable must somehow now make affordability *their* #1 issue. Replacing unabashed hateful bigotry as their brand. x.com/vivekgramasw...
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Hilarious panicky confusion from Ohio’s Republican governor nominee Ramaswamy: the party raising prices of imports and about to make health care impossibly unaffordable must somehow now make affordability *their* #1 issue. Replacing unabashed hateful bigotry as their brand. x.com/vivekgramasw...
Interesting he’s admitting that Americans blame Republicans for the government shutdown. And also suggesting that the next Republican presidential nominee (if it’s not him, of course) is doomed.
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Interesting he’s admitting that Americans blame Republicans for the government shutdown. And also suggesting that the next Republican presidential nominee (if it’s not him, of course) is doomed.
Separated At Birth
Bad guy whose oil-rich nation we may start a war against for spurious reasons....
...and bad guy whose oil-rich nation we started a war against for spurious reasons that lasted 8 years, wasted the lives of 4500 U.S. troops and 200K Iraqi civilians, and directly cost $1 trillion.
Bad guy whose oil-rich nation we may start a war against for spurious reasons....
...and bad guy whose oil-rich nation we started a war against for spurious reasons that lasted 8 years, wasted the lives of 4500 U.S. troops and 200K Iraqi civilians, and directly cost $1 trillion.
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Separated At Birth
Bad guy whose oil-rich nation we may start a war against for spurious reasons....
...and bad guy whose oil-rich nation we started a war against for spurious reasons that lasted 8 years, wasted the lives of 4500 U.S. troops and 200K Iraqi civilians, and directly cost $1 trillion.
Bad guy whose oil-rich nation we may start a war against for spurious reasons....
...and bad guy whose oil-rich nation we started a war against for spurious reasons that lasted 8 years, wasted the lives of 4500 U.S. troops and 200K Iraqi civilians, and directly cost $1 trillion.
And a scene from next week's episode.
November 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
And a scene from next week's episode.
From the 2017 parody memoir of his first year in office I did with Alec Baldwin –– Trump's vision for improving the White House. With the latest Trumpficiations of the East Wing and the Lincoln Bedroom's bathroom, it's now another reality-catches-up-with-satire prophesy.
November 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
From the 2017 parody memoir of his first year in office I did with Alec Baldwin –– Trump's vision for improving the White House. With the latest Trumpficiations of the East Wing and the Lincoln Bedroom's bathroom, it's now another reality-catches-up-with-satire prophesy.
Third try in 30 years by miserly anti-government Republicans to use shutdown to bully Dena to let them cut health care. First two in 1996 & 2013 were GOP political debacles. This time: health costs more unaffordable, GOP cuts are imminent—and they’ve weaponized hunger. My bet: GOP political debacle.
November 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Third try in 30 years by miserly anti-government Republicans to use shutdown to bully Dena to let them cut health care. First two in 1996 & 2013 were GOP political debacles. This time: health costs more unaffordable, GOP cuts are imminent—and they’ve weaponized hunger. My bet: GOP political debacle.
“Weeks after Jeffrey Epstein died in federal custody in 2019,” when Trump was president, “JPMorgan was flagging transactions potentially related to human trafficking. It also mentioned Epstein’s wire transfers to Russian banks and sensitivities around ‘relationships with 2 U.S. presidents.’” Link…
October 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
“Weeks after Jeffrey Epstein died in federal custody in 2019,” when Trump was president, “JPMorgan was flagging transactions potentially related to human trafficking. It also mentioned Epstein’s wire transfers to Russian banks and sensitivities around ‘relationships with 2 U.S. presidents.’” Link…
In the New York mayoral election, new polls today from three top-tier pollsters, all conducted during the last week.
In all of them Zohran Mamdani beats Cuomo by margins of 10% to 26%. In one 51% of voters are for him.
Cuomo’s at 26-33% in all three. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
🙏🏻👍🏻👏🏻
In all of them Zohran Mamdani beats Cuomo by margins of 10% to 26%. In one 51% of voters are for him.
Cuomo’s at 26-33% in all three. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
🙏🏻👍🏻👏🏻
October 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
In the New York mayoral election, new polls today from three top-tier pollsters, all conducted during the last week.
In all of them Zohran Mamdani beats Cuomo by margins of 10% to 26%. In one 51% of voters are for him.
Cuomo’s at 26-33% in all three. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
🙏🏻👍🏻👏🏻
In all of them Zohran Mamdani beats Cuomo by margins of 10% to 26%. In one 51% of voters are for him.
Cuomo’s at 26-33% in all three. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
🙏🏻👍🏻👏🏻
Maybe or maybe not these AI-driven tech
valuations turn out to be bubbles, and maybe or maybe not their popping would lead to a crash. But it’s extraordinary that the first time the market decided that any company was worth *$1 trillion* was only seven years ago.
valuations turn out to be bubbles, and maybe or maybe not their popping would lead to a crash. But it’s extraordinary that the first time the market decided that any company was worth *$1 trillion* was only seven years ago.
October 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Maybe or maybe not these AI-driven tech
valuations turn out to be bubbles, and maybe or maybe not their popping would lead to a crash. But it’s extraordinary that the first time the market decided that any company was worth *$1 trillion* was only seven years ago.
valuations turn out to be bubbles, and maybe or maybe not their popping would lead to a crash. But it’s extraordinary that the first time the market decided that any company was worth *$1 trillion* was only seven years ago.
Trump yesterday: "I have my highest poll numbers that I’ve ever had.”
New polls yesterday & today are both his worst so far this term
• Economist/YouGov 58% disapprove, 39% approve
• Reuters/Ipsos 57% disapprove, 40% approve
Under-30s are now at 75%-20% disapprove, down in 9 monhts from 50-50.
New polls yesterday & today are both his worst so far this term
• Economist/YouGov 58% disapprove, 39% approve
• Reuters/Ipsos 57% disapprove, 40% approve
Under-30s are now at 75%-20% disapprove, down in 9 monhts from 50-50.
October 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Trump yesterday: "I have my highest poll numbers that I’ve ever had.”
New polls yesterday & today are both his worst so far this term
• Economist/YouGov 58% disapprove, 39% approve
• Reuters/Ipsos 57% disapprove, 40% approve
Under-30s are now at 75%-20% disapprove, down in 9 monhts from 50-50.
New polls yesterday & today are both his worst so far this term
• Economist/YouGov 58% disapprove, 39% approve
• Reuters/Ipsos 57% disapprove, 40% approve
Under-30s are now at 75%-20% disapprove, down in 9 monhts from 50-50.
Nicht alle Medien, aber ja, das tue ich. Wie ich in einem Buch dargelegt habe.
October 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Nicht alle Medien, aber ja, das tue ich. Wie ich in einem Buch dargelegt habe.
His flying-monkey House Speaker says there’s no “way to amend the Constitution 22nd Amendment”—and Trump concedes that’s true! “If you read it, it’s pretty clear, I’m not allowed to run. It’s too bad.” Reality-based! Except he added: “We have the greatest economy ever, my highest poll numbers ever.”
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
His flying-monkey House Speaker says there’s no “way to amend the Constitution 22nd Amendment”—and Trump concedes that’s true! “If you read it, it’s pretty clear, I’m not allowed to run. It’s too bad.” Reality-based! Except he added: “We have the greatest economy ever, my highest poll numbers ever.”
News organizations’ polling coverage is SO stupid and misleading. In the NYC mayoral election, a new poll yesterday had Mamdani leading by “only” 10%, vs his 15% running average—OMG!
But a new poll just out has him +15%. So now he’s pulling ahead, right? No! It’s not a literal horse race FFS.
But a new poll just out has him +15%. So now he’s pulling ahead, right? No! It’s not a literal horse race FFS.
October 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
News organizations’ polling coverage is SO stupid and misleading. In the NYC mayoral election, a new poll yesterday had Mamdani leading by “only” 10%, vs his 15% running average—OMG!
But a new poll just out has him +15%. So now he’s pulling ahead, right? No! It’s not a literal horse race FFS.
But a new poll just out has him +15%. So now he’s pulling ahead, right? No! It’s not a literal horse race FFS.
Trump continues to be a Munchausen-syndrome-by-proxy ruler: 1) create a dire emergency or 2) pretend there’s one, so you can then A) cure or B) pretend to cure it.
So it comes in 4 types , and what he’s done with China on trade has been the simple 1A kind — create, then cure.
So it comes in 4 types , and what he’s done with China on trade has been the simple 1A kind — create, then cure.
October 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Trump continues to be a Munchausen-syndrome-by-proxy ruler: 1) create a dire emergency or 2) pretend there’s one, so you can then A) cure or B) pretend to cure it.
So it comes in 4 types , and what he’s done with China on trade has been the simple 1A kind — create, then cure.
So it comes in 4 types , and what he’s done with China on trade has been the simple 1A kind — create, then cure.
I’d stopped calling him The Greatest Self-Parodist of All Time, but can’t restrain myself this week. Starts by suddenly demolishing the East Wing to build his new ballroom. Ends screaming that a brilliant Canadian ad will “illegally influence” SCOTUS to rule against him. share.google/gYn7FS0qdM2z...
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I’d stopped calling him The Greatest Self-Parodist of All Time, but can’t restrain myself this week. Starts by suddenly demolishing the East Wing to build his new ballroom. Ends screaming that a brilliant Canadian ad will “illegally influence” SCOTUS to rule against him. share.google/gYn7FS0qdM2z...
Interesting which of the Magnificent Seven tech companies aren’t paying Trump millions in tribute to build his 2-acre ballroom to replace the 18th century White House East Wing that he just tore down — his ex-pal Musk’s Tesla, and Nvidia, which he already extorted for $2 billion a year.
October 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Interesting which of the Magnificent Seven tech companies aren’t paying Trump millions in tribute to build his 2-acre ballroom to replace the 18th century White House East Wing that he just tore down — his ex-pal Musk’s Tesla, and Nvidia, which he already extorted for $2 billion a year.
Why I wrote this piece in The Atlantic last year the week that Bobby Kennedy endorsed Donald Trump for president. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
October 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Why I wrote this piece in The Atlantic last year the week that Bobby Kennedy endorsed Donald Trump for president. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Craziest inmate running the asylum, rabid fox guarding the henhouse: a year before inflection-point midterms, a MAGA 2020 conspiracy nut is the Department of Homeland Security’s new deputy assistant secretary for election integrity.
Wondering: % of D.C. election deniers sincerely deluded vs lying?
Wondering: % of D.C. election deniers sincerely deluded vs lying?
October 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Craziest inmate running the asylum, rabid fox guarding the henhouse: a year before inflection-point midterms, a MAGA 2020 conspiracy nut is the Department of Homeland Security’s new deputy assistant secretary for election integrity.
Wondering: % of D.C. election deniers sincerely deluded vs lying?
Wondering: % of D.C. election deniers sincerely deluded vs lying?
In every poll for weeks, Zohran Mamdani has been at 45% (±2). In last week’s poll— commissioned by Fox News —52% of New York City voters are for him. Versus 28% for Cuomo. 🤗
October 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
In every poll for weeks, Zohran Mamdani has been at 45% (±2). In last week’s poll— commissioned by Fox News —52% of New York City voters are for him. Versus 28% for Cuomo. 🤗