A newsletter on politics and culture, money and power -- telling the truth without fear -- from Anand Giridharadas
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I didn’t like my friend’s intervention. He was right
Sometimes a friend sees you more clearly than you see yourself. Sometimes that means more clearly than you wish to be seen.
That’s how it was with my friend Sam. We had come up as journalists together, had met while we were foreign corresp...
Dave Eggers to lonely Americans: Leave your house
In our second conversation with the author, he offers a deceptively simple remedy to a loneliness epidemic in an age of screens
In her second conversation with the author Dave Eggers for The Ink, tied to his new novel Contrapposto, Leigh H...
Dave Eggers didn't want to give Trump another four years of his life
The author on creativity in a time of crisis, doing the work you love versus the work that the times demand, and the AI threat
So many of us can relate to Dave Eggers’s struggle in the Trump era. What do you do when the times demand consta...
What Abdul El-Sayed believes
As returns pour in in the Democratic primary contest for a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, we revisit my reflections on a past conversation with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed. What struck me most was El-Sayed’s idea of his political project as not simpl...
How a con man hacked death row
I spoke this week with the legendary investigative reporter Pamela Colloff, author of a riveting debut book, “Catch the Devil,” which blows the lid off of a scandalous reality of the American justice system: the use and knowing abuse of jai...
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Publisher of The.Ink. My new book, MAN IN THE MIRROR, comes out 9/29.
Public servant running for U.S. Senate because it shouldn't be THIS hard to get by. Michigan born and raised. Girl Dad. Doctor.
Talking democracy since 2020
I have devoted my career to supporting books and authors, as an editor, writer, publicist, director of Oprah’s Book Club, and current director of The Ink democracy book club. Step up, fellow bibliophiles! In this era of book banning, be fierce!
Reporter at ProPublica. Staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Author of Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast (Knopf, 2026).
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