A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller
Rosebud Archives: Robert Kagan’s 2023 Prediction About Trump’s “Inevitable” Dictatorship
AUGUST 2025 - In late November 2023 - nearly a year before the presidential election - public intellectual Robert Kagan penned one of the most prescient works of political analysis ever posted to a...
Rosebud Winner: Obituary of a CIA Agent Who Uncovered a Russian Spy
AUGUST 2025 - We've extolled the virtues of the NYT obit desk, so why stop? NYT obituaries today have no peer - and last week's obituary about CIA operative Sandra Grimes, who uncovered the case of...
Worth Noting: Obama Intelligence Officials Write So Clearly, They Cut Through Trump’s Fog on Russia Election Meddling
AUGUST 2025 - Washington may be a mess, and Trump's authoritarianism may have the upper hand right now, but we get reminders that clearly articulated facts still rule. No matter who writes them. A...
Rosebud Winner: USAFacts Breaks Down Recently Passed “Big Beautiful Bill”
JULY 2025 - The Republican's "Big Beautiful Bill" - a panoply of tax revisions, Medicaid cuts and other budget-sensitive policies - was enshrined into law this month, and while major print media...
Rosebud Winner: Readers Beat Up NYT Columnist Stephens for Giving Trump Credit
JULY 2025 - Center-right NYT columnist Bret Stephens came out and said it: "Not everything Trump does is bad." And of course the relatively modest number of reader comments - fewer than 250 as of...
Rosebud Winner: Politico Legal Columnist Points Out A Glaring Issue with Trump
JULY 2025 - Politico from the start has been the ESPN of the political scene - everything and more for the serious follower of DC. But more recently it's producing some newsy coverage. One of its...
Special Rosebud Winner: Adman Martin Puris, at 86, Making a Surprise Impact on Social Media
JULY 2025 - Instagram, Facebook, Youtube and TikTok are our sources of popcorn these days, so we're usually not scoping around those parts in search of exemplary journalism. But given these times -...
Rosebud Winner: Will Trump’s Creepy 2003 Messages to Epstein Move the Scandal Needle?
JULY 2025 - Yesterday's latest revelation about Epstein-Trump - words nicely bound in a 2003 birthday book for the late sex trafficker - should be a slam-dunk Rosebud winner for the Wall Street...
Rosebud Winner: “Guest Column” Corrects NYT on Its Coverage of Venezuelan Gang in Colorado
JULY 2025 - The NYT last September published a report on Aurora, Colorado, calling the emergence of an armed Venezuelan gang in a housing complex there a "false story." Here's a link to the Sept....
Rosebud Winner: Mark Bowden Brings Us a Timely Profile of “Razin” Caine
JULY 2025 - Pretty much all journalists would burn their laptop to get their work optioned into a Hollywood film, and Mark Bowden has enjoyed that good fortune several times in his career. Two of...