2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (130+ words) Welcome back to The Red Letter. The message from Trump was simple: things are under control. But according to a former Navy mission commander who's operated over the Strait of Hormuz, that couldn't be further from the truth. In this…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (238+ words) Welcome back to The Red Letter. After Attorney General Pam Bondi's ouster, questions are mounting about whether Trump is systematically sidelining some of the most loyal women in his orbit. Sources say he's already seen how quickly he can reshuffle…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago  (589+ words) Welcome back to The Red Letter. There is a particular kind of frustration that comes through when Ambassador John Bolton talks about President Donald Trump. Bolton doesn't take issue with the premise of the war in Iran, he's been calling…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (708+ words) Welcome back to The Red Letter. George Conway doesn't think impeachment failed'he thinks Congress did. When I caught up with Conway'after a few tech hiccups getting him onto Substack Live'he was calling in from his girlfriend's Central Park West apartment, casually…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (815+ words) Welcome back to The Red Letter. President Donald Trump didn't show up in Marjorie Taylor Greene's district to energize the base. He came because he saw a problem. Not to anoint a winner. Not to celebrate. To stop an embarrassment....

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (267+ words) Welcome back to The Red Letter. Steve Schmidt joined me for a brutally candid conversation about my latest reporting on the quiet panic spreading through Republican circles over Pete Hegseth and Trump's war. Publicly, they're staying in line. Privately, I'm…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (130+ words) Thanks Tara: Thank you Parizad Parchi, for sharing your thoughts, fears,. grief, and deep uncertainty. I too have deep uncertainty with the way this present Trump administration it doing things. Bombing and destroying a country will not change anything , In…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (225+ words) Thank you, Tara, for sharing this powerful article, written with Heart, Longing, and a deep Connection to the wounds and the memories of war and control, shared with love and hope. It is always the Women, Children, Elderly and those…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1430+ words) Welcome back to The Red Letter. I'm featuring a personal essay today from my friend Parizad Parchi, who I've watched up close over the past weeks move through something I think many in the Iranian diaspora are feeling right now…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (430+ words) Welcome back to The Red Letter. Today is a big day in Texas politics and potentially a defining one for President Donald Trump's grip on the Republican Party. I'm waiting on Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has just hours…...