
I'm a bestselling author who also wrote speeches and jokes for President Obama. On here, I write about political persuasion, how obscure cultural references explain everything, and how to live courageously when it takes guts just to read the news.
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Hi. I’m Vivek Ramaswamy’s dad, and I have something to say to the American people.
I love my son. But he’s a huge asshole.
This isn’t even about politics. I just enjoy stating the obvious. The sky is blue. I have ten fingers and ten toe...
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Earlier this week, I spent about a half-hour talking with Yasmin Radjy - who is, as she reminded me, my very first friend from politics. We met at a training for Obama Organizing Fellows (read: unpaid interns) in Columbus, Ohio in 2008.
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If you’ve started to take a blue wave for granted, read this article: “Inside Musk’s $276 million rescue mission for Republicans.”
If you, like Musk, view a billion dollars as spare change, it doesn’t really matter where you spend your mo...
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A former Obama speechwriter and joke writer, David Litt is the New York Times bestselling author of Thanks, Obama and Democracy in One Book or Less. His next book, It’s Only Drowning, will be published on June 24, and his newsletter is “Word Salad.”
President of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, Redistricting Action & National Redistricting Foundation. Fighting for a stronger, representative democracy & voting rights. Obama White House alum. Boston sports obsessive.
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