by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Dec 11, 2025 | Opinions & Critical Reviews
DECEMBER 2025 – Many may remember Barton Swaim from his 2015 book The Speechwriter, which chronicles his experience on the staff of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. Even NYT reviewers came away saying the book was witty and insightful. It contained, too, a...
by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Dec 4, 2025 | Worth Noting
DECEMBER 2025 – It feels as though John Bolton is on the lam – the one-time Trump national security advisor was indicted in mid October for allegedly mishandling classified information, and since then most of the US op-ed pages have shunned him. For years...
by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Dec 3, 2025 | Opinions & Critical Reviews
NOVEMBER 2025 – Thanks largely to Trump’s daily turpitude, there’s been a surge of moral clarity among opinion writers – especially those with no allegiance to Democrats. Take yesterday’s column by DC legend George Will, headlined...
by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Dec 2, 2025 | People Profiles
NOVEMBER 2025 – Mark Singer’s been at The New Yorker his entire career, since he escaped Yale in the early 70s. Meantime he’s written some of the best-woven, best reported people tales you’ll ever read. Observant, descriptive but always a...
by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Dec 2, 2025 | Obituaries & Long Form
NOVEMBER 2025 – Anyone who has ever sat through a Tom Stoppard play – all witty and original but dense and abstruse, full of flourishes but often ponderous – can be excused if they felt they were never quite, well, entertained. Stoppard’s works...