Saturday, November 23, 2024. Annette’s News Roundup.
I hope you won’t mind. I will take 2 days off… and return on Monday.
While I hope your weekend will be full of the pleasures of autumn weather and the pre-Thanksgiving joy anticipating Snoopy floating down Central Park West and maybe even the delight of cooking - will you bake pie or make butter drenched mashed potatoes in advance of the holiday? - , I thought I would provide you with one post that is both long enough and intense enough to last you on both Saturday and Sunday.
The historian Anne Applebaum, who regularly writes for The Atlantic, was interviewed by Ezra Klein of the New York Times.
She puts Trump’s recent announcements of inappropriate choices to run our government in the context of the acts of other strong men. She makes clear the why and the wherefore of his outrageous behavior, and where we are as a Democracy.
I am sure you will learn from her. I did.
Either listen for 62 minutes. There may be an ad before The Ezra Klein Show begins.
Or read this long transcript of the Klein-Applebaum podcast
See you on Monday!