A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller
Rosebud Winner: Daniel Yergin’s Quick Essay on Venezuela’s Prospects
FEBRUARY 2026 - Most know Daniel Yergin as the author of The Prize, the 1990 tome that's widely regarded as the definitive history of global oil commerce and politics. And at age 79, he today...
Worth Noting: Tyler Pager’s Early Morning Phone Call to Trump
JANUARY 2026 - NYT White House correspondent Tyler Pager, after reading reports of an overnight military action in Venezuela on Jan. 3, made a direct phone call to Donald Trump at 4:30 that morning....
Rosebud Winner: Frank Bruni’s Year-End “Best Sentences” Column
JANUARY 2026 - It's in its second year, but Frank Bruni's year-end "Best Sentences" column is getting legs - that is, folks are liking and sharing, a lot. And for good reason: the column, a...
Rosebud Winner: Chris Whipple’s Nothing-If-Not-Entertaining Piece on Susie Wiles
DECEMBER 2025 - It's been days of fallout now since the Dec. 16 release of Chris Whipple's two-part piece on Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles - columnists like Peggy Noonan and Frank Bruni have...
Rosebud Winner: WSJ’s Scoops on Dramatic Flight from Venezuela of Maria Corina Machado
DECEMBER 2025 - The WSJ beat the pants off the rest of the US press last week when Jose de Cordoba, Vera Bergengruen and Alex Leary reported on the Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina...
Rosebud Winner: Barton Swaim Sees 2028 as MAGA’s “Expiration Date”
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...
Worth Noting: British News Outlets Have Given John Bolton an Important Stage
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...
Rosebud Winner: The Rising Moral Voice of The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols
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...
Rosebud Winner: Mark Singer, Longtime Fixture of The New Yorker, Pens a Relevant Memory of 1990s Trump
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...
Rosebud Winner: Bruce Weber, Long Retired from NYT, Explains the Brilliance of the Late Tom Stoppard
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...