My novel is out May 16. Here’s what you need to know. — Buy my novel The Time Has Come right here. I am such a sucker for the Frequently Asked Questions article format that Daniel, the main character of my book How Lucky, early on in the book stops the narrative dead in its tracks, grants the reader temporary sentience and busts…

There is no “be a good person” lane in the Republican party. — Ron DeSantis is in trouble. In the wake of relentless attacks on him by the former President — it is remarkable that one candidate for President can casually call another candidate for President a child molestor and no one even makes a big deal out of it anymore — DeSantis’…

We’re all victims, blaming each other. — Yesterday, excellent Bulwark writer Jonathan V. Last made an incredibly important point that shouldn’t get lost in all the madness of right now. As we await (yes?) a potential arrest of former President Donald Trump, there is a natural tendency to have fights amongst ourselves about it. Republicans think the…

And why they may be right. — This June, it will be seven years since I assumed we were done with Donald Trump. I had been covering the 2016 Presidential campaign for Bloomberg Politics, mostly on the intersection-between-politics-and-culture-beat — I covered things like the end of Letterman, and the hiring of Trevor Noah, and how Ted Cruz…

The second in an ongoing series. — The first votes for President of the United States will take place 10 months from now, in Iowa, where Republican voters (but not Democratic voters) will let their voices be heard. Ten months ago is a very short amount of time. Ten months ago was the Uvalde shooting. Does that…

Plug 64 of anything into a bracket, and you’ll get an answer. — On Sunday night, the brackets for both the men’s and women’s NCAA Tournaments were announced. (You can, and should, join my own free men’s bracket and women’s bracket.) College basketball, as much as I personally love it, is not nearly as popular as it once was, but the tournament itself…

People want to talk about ANYTHING else. — Around, oh, June 2020, I found myself getting obsessed with the 1918 Flu Pandemic. This was partly because I was sitting around my house with nothing to do and nowhere to go, like most of the rest of you. But mostly: I just wanted to know when this was going…

We will find out soon. — I don’t understand how any reasonable person could look at the human-type organisms who were at CPAC last week and think those people should be in charge of a Chuck E. Cheese’s, let alone the country. There was a guy there pretending to be JFK Jr, who died in an…

An interview with the author of “Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation” — I host the People Still Read Books podcast once a month, a podcast where I talk to authors about their books, their process, their fears, the excitement and terror of writing a book. (It’s also partly a way to help promote my upcoming novel The Time Has Come.) …