Walter Shapiro
@mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social
Covering my 12th presidential campaign for the New Republic. Columnist for Roll Call and teach at Yale. New Yorker whose idea of adventure travel is crossing West 86th Street against the light. And Twitter refugee.
Another brutally honest assessment in the subject line of a DNC fund-raising email: "You deserve an explanation." Boy, do I ever.
July 10, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Another brutally honest assessment in the subject line of a DNC fund-raising email: "You deserve an explanation." Boy, do I ever.
Not sure this is the best subject line for the Biden campaign fund-raising efforts today: "Trump is closer than ever to retaking power." And why is that?
July 5, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Not sure this is the best subject line for the Biden campaign fund-raising efforts today: "Trump is closer than ever to retaking power." And why is that?
Can I question the Times news judgment? Was a Trumped up House hearing really the most important thing that happened Wednesday inn the world? How would the Times have covered the story if it were the president of Fordham (and not Columbia) on the hot seat?
April 18, 2024 at 2:51 AM
Can I question the Times news judgment? Was a Trumped up House hearing really the most important thing that happened Wednesday inn the world? How would the Times have covered the story if it were the president of Fordham (and not Columbia) on the hot seat?
I don't think it makes much of a difference politically because swing voters in the Milwaukee suburbs are unlikely to be avid Times readers. But if you read the Times headlines, Trump's new abortion position is based on deep-seated conviction while Biden's student loan relief is pure politics.
April 9, 2024 at 12:04 AM
I don't think it makes much of a difference politically because swing voters in the Milwaukee suburbs are unlikely to be avid Times readers. But if you read the Times headlines, Trump's new abortion position is based on deep-seated conviction while Biden's student loan relief is pure politics.
Why I love LinkedIn. With job recommendations like this (tailored expressly for me), I can really build a great career in the next 15 or 20 years.
March 26, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Why I love LinkedIn. With job recommendations like this (tailored expressly for me), I can really build a great career in the next 15 or 20 years.
Shades of Ralph Nader in Florida in 2000: The Ron DeSantis vote could prevent Nikki Haley from winning all-important Vermont.
March 6, 2024 at 2:59 AM
Shades of Ralph Nader in Florida in 2000: The Ron DeSantis vote could prevent Nikki Haley from winning all-important Vermont.
Always trust the NY Times to confront society's most pressing problems. This one is also highlighted on the Times' web home page:
March 3, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Always trust the NY Times to confront society's most pressing problems. This one is also highlighted on the Times' web home page:
Kudos to the NY Times for featuring a solution to a problem that I suspect is not on anyone's top 100 list of quandaries.
February 6, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Kudos to the NY Times for featuring a solution to a problem that I suspect is not on anyone's top 100 list of quandaries.
Tears came to my eyes reading about the bravery of the president of the Heritage Foundation (Kevin Roberts) as he recounted his trip to Davos (presumably he flew coach) in a fund-raising email:
January 30, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Tears came to my eyes reading about the bravery of the president of the Heritage Foundation (Kevin Roberts) as he recounted his trip to Davos (presumably he flew coach) in a fund-raising email:
In these troubling times, this is what I look to the New York Times for:
January 30, 2024 at 12:54 AM
In these troubling times, this is what I look to the New York Times for:
Memo to NY Times' seemingly clueless copy desk: The event in Iowa on Monday night is not a primary despite your headline on the Times home page.
January 14, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Memo to NY Times' seemingly clueless copy desk: The event in Iowa on Monday night is not a primary despite your headline on the Times home page.
Unveiled: Meryl Gordon's new biography of Perle Mesta. Coming to a bookstore near you in November:
January 13, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Unveiled: Meryl Gordon's new biography of Perle Mesta. Coming to a bookstore near you in November:
Will the Times ever let this story go? I fear I may be condemned to reading hot takes on Claudine Gay in 2039.
January 4, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Will the Times ever let this story go? I fear I may be condemned to reading hot takes on Claudine Gay in 2039.
C'mon NY Times. This is a late entry in the 2023 Euphemism for Tyranny Sweepstakes. Notice how evasively the Times Travel describes what's going on in Hong Kong since the crackdown on freedom
December 29, 2023 at 12:44 AM
C'mon NY Times. This is a late entry in the 2023 Euphemism for Tyranny Sweepstakes. Notice how evasively the Times Travel describes what's going on in Hong Kong since the crackdown on freedom
There's a wonderful appreciation of North Pole scammer Frederick Cook by Allegra Rosenberg in the New York Times. I have to proudly add that my con-man great-uncle Freeman Bernstein (whom I wrote about in my bio "Hustling Hitler") offered Cook $100,000 to grace the vaudeville stage in 1909.
December 25, 2023 at 6:27 PM
There's a wonderful appreciation of North Pole scammer Frederick Cook by Allegra Rosenberg in the New York Times. I have to proudly add that my con-man great-uncle Freeman Bernstein (whom I wrote about in my bio "Hustling Hitler") offered Cook $100,000 to grace the vaudeville stage in 1909.
My visual statement against third-party gambits that will throw the election to Trump.
December 21, 2023 at 5:01 PM
My visual statement against third-party gambits that will throw the election to Trump.
My nomination for the most obvious headline of 2023:
October 19, 2023 at 2:40 AM
My nomination for the most obvious headline of 2023:
How not to sell a story. The New York Times tells me that its feature on Kamala Harris is a "32-minute read." Talk about discouraging me from starting it.
October 10, 2023 at 7:01 PM
How not to sell a story. The New York Times tells me that its feature on Kamala Harris is a "32-minute read." Talk about discouraging me from starting it.
Easiest question that I have been asked all year: "Real quick- will you stand with me?" That's the subject line in a Ted Cruz fund-raising email.
September 22, 2023 at 9:44 PM
Easiest question that I have been asked all year: "Real quick- will you stand with me?" That's the subject line in a Ted Cruz fund-raising email.
Worst cause-group headline of the week. Thought Leaders? C'mon.
September 18, 2023 at 4:45 PM
Worst cause-group headline of the week. Thought Leaders? C'mon.
What's wrong with ex-Twitter in one image:
September 13, 2023 at 10:09 PM
What's wrong with ex-Twitter in one image:
My idea of a perfectly constructed poll with scientifically valid results. Below is the question that Emily's List sent to its email list today. I can't wait until they release the results since this might be evidence of the long-awaited DeSantis surge.
August 4, 2023 at 3:52 PM
My idea of a perfectly constructed poll with scientifically valid results. Below is the question that Emily's List sent to its email list today. I can't wait until they release the results since this might be evidence of the long-awaited DeSantis surge.
As a New York Times reader, I am thrilled at their news judgment that their own horserace poll (15 months before the election) is the biggest news story in the world as indicated by their home page. Just as yesterday's lead-the-paper poll was the biggest news story at the end of July.
August 1, 2023 at 2:08 PM
As a New York Times reader, I am thrilled at their news judgment that their own horserace poll (15 months before the election) is the biggest news story in the world as indicated by their home page. Just as yesterday's lead-the-paper poll was the biggest news story at the end of July.
We are officially in the dog days of summer, as far as news is concerned, when the big headline on the NY Times website is a poll. A national poll of Republicans nearly six months before the Iowa caucuses.
July 31, 2023 at 1:58 PM
We are officially in the dog days of summer, as far as news is concerned, when the big headline on the NY Times website is a poll. A national poll of Republicans nearly six months before the Iowa caucuses.
In a shocking development, the Murdoch-owned NY Post discovers that there are (smelling salts, please) brothels and sex workers in New York. Unimaginable.
July 30, 2023 at 3:46 PM
In a shocking development, the Murdoch-owned NY Post discovers that there are (smelling salts, please) brothels and sex workers in New York. Unimaginable.