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FRESH HELL Tina Brown's Diary

Tina Brown's observations, rants, news obsessions, and human exchanges.

By Tina Brown

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Regime Change: The Big Beautiful Beach Read

As many as 30,000 English language books have been written about Donald Trump since he first eyed the White House in 2016, but only one has managed to…

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Trump’s Roman Games/Obama’s Shrine to Himself

How did the 250th anniversary of America become a celebration so devoid of ideas?

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The Shitstorm at 60

How much of the still raging dumpster fire at 60 Minutes is due to the billionaire Ellisons’ need to keep Trump onside to close their mastodonic media…

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What Jill Biden Doesn't Tell Us

When Special Counsel Robert Hur interviewed Joe Biden in October 2023 about retaining classified documents in his Delaware home, Hur famously declined…

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Trump’s Sweet Vengeance

Democrats are getting it wrong again.

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My Video Chat with Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart, co-hosts of top UK podcast The Rest is Politics

Alastair, Rory, and I mixed it up over how Trump has successfully colonized world news, and over who has done greater damage to journalism: Rupert…

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Can the Andrew File Get Any Worse?

It’s thanks to Andrew Lownie’s paperback update of Entitled, his Prince Andrew defenestration, that we now know that Sarah Ferguson—aside from her toxic…

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Inside the Truth Booth

A scroll through some highlights of the Truth Tellers Summit

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Let Truth Roar

Here comes the first Wednesday in May, and the annual Truth Tellers Investigative Journalism Summit in London shines on my calendar again.

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Backstage with the Cameo Queens in The Devil Wears Prada 2

The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a welcome bonbon of magazine world wish fulfillment as that lost medium of peak publishing craters around us in a swirl of…

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The King, the Queen, and the Ballroom Blitz

God, it was nice for British embassy guests to see King Charles and Queen Camilla in person yesterday afternoon!

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My Video Chat with the Royal Biographer Robert Hardman on King Charles’ Fraught State Visit to the U.S

On the eve of the king’s visit to Washington, Robert and I talked about why Trump will likely be on his best behavior at the state dinner, why Prince…

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FRESH HELL Tina Brown's Diary

Tina Brown's observations, rants, news obsessions, and human exchanges.