Todd S. Purdum
Todd S. Purdum is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution.
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Jim Acosta’s Dangerous Brand of Performance Journalism
The CNN reporter is speaking truth to power—but he’s also amplifying the president’s anti-press campaign.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters A Star Is Broken (and Then Reborn)
Within the space of a day, Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was vandalized, and then quickly replaced.
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Denis Poroy / AP This Isn’t Dianne Feinstein’s Democratic Party
The longtime senator from California is likely to win reelection. But the state’s liberal, antiestablishment wing is already winning the future.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Worst Russia Blunder in 70 Years
The president’s absolution of Putin will stand as the most surreal moment in 70 years of Russian-American relations, and maybe the most bizarre and troubling utterance by any chief executive in American history.
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Bettmann / Getty Remembering ‘Big Nancy’ Sinatra
The first wife of Frank Sinatra, who died at age 101, pre-dated the invasions of fame, and survived with grace what came next.
