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PREVAIL by Greg Olear
PREVAIL is a regular column about politics, history, national security, foreign affairs, organized crime, dirty money, global corruption, the fight for democracy—and, on Sundays, poetry and literature.
She's Not There: Tulsi the Zombie
The outgoing DNI has long been derided as a puppet. And she is. But the master pulling the strings? He's not who you might think.
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Sunday Pages: "Those Winter Sundays"
A poem by Robert Hayden
Jun 21 • Greg Olear
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Ramble On: A Monolog About Dialog
Morning thoughts on Peter Thiel's secret society / dating app.
Jun 19 • Greg Olear
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The #Liz48 Plan: This Is How We Remove Them—Legally, Quickly, and Nonviolently
Oct 21, 2025 • Greg Olear
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Full Disclosure: An Interview with Noel Casler
May 1, 2020 • Greg Olear
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Tinker, Tailor, Mobster, Trump
Mar 31, 2020 • Greg Olear
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Shame Cometh: The Jared Kushner Story
Feb 8, 2022 • Greg Olear
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The Hidden Epstein Videos
Feb 17 • Greg Olear
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The Great Escape: Donald John Trump’s Exit Strategy
Aug 7, 2020 • Greg Olear
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The Mad MAGA Hatter
What's the deal with Dan Bongino and the Epstein Files?
Jun 16 • Greg Olear
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Sunday Pages: Knicks in Five
21 thoughts on sports, glory, teamwork, basketball, New York, joy, and my favorite team's first championship in 53 years.
Jun 14 • Greg Olear
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Ramble On: The Situation Room
Morning thoughts on the excerpt from the Maggie Haberman / Jonathan Swan book that ran in the New York Times.
Jun 12 • Greg Olear
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My Own Private Sarawak: Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner & The White Rajahs of America
James Brooke is the template for our current crop of power-mad oligarchs.
Jun 9 • Greg Olear
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Sunday Pages: "Here Is New York"
An essay by E.B. White.
Jun 7 • Greg Olear
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Trump Don't Got Game: The Knicks vs. The President
Because his life's mission is to ruin everything good in the world, Donald plans to attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals Monday night at Madison Square.
Jun 5 • Greg Olear
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Drunk on Cuba Libre
Greenland was a bust. Iran is a catastrophe. Might Trump's imperial appetites be sated a little closer to home?
Jun 2 • Greg Olear
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