Evan Osnos

Book news: “The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich” was scheduled to be published this fall, but the publisher has moved it up to June 3rd, because it describes a world upon us now. Details and pre-orders here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ha...

Around D.C., the new going rate is well-known: $5 million for a one-on-one dinner with Trump, but gov-affairs execs have “no clue where the money is eventually going,” one said. Another told me it’s “outer-borough Mafia sh*t.” My new piece is out @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"It’s not clear that anyone wrote the study cited in the MAHA report." Wow. If these were freshman, caught using ChatGPT that made up bogus studies, they'd get flunked or worse. www.notus.org/health-scien...

Book news: “The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich” was scheduled to be published this fall, but the publisher has moved it up to June 3rd, because it describes a world upon us now. Details and pre-orders here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ha...

Tomorrow: talking Trump-era corruption and the rise of trillionaire-politics with @edwardluce.bsky.social hosted by @bigtentusa.bsky.social 📅 June 17 | 7 PM ET | Virtual bigtentusa.org/event/the-ha... RSVP free: bigtentusa.org/event/the-ha... cc: @scribnerbooks.bsky.social

Paperback of THE HAVES AND HAVE-YACHTS arrives this week, alongside history's first trillionaire—a fortune 5 million times the median American family’s net worth. Thanks to @scribnerbooks.bsky.social @newyorker.com and everyone who has spent time with these stories.

Watching Trump’s visit here in Beijing reminded me that the CIA once did a classified study called “Chinese Political Negotiating Behavior." It explained the use of “gratitude, dependence, awe, and helplessness.” Its key advice: “Resist the flattery.” My dispatch: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Indeed. Our podcast this week is on precisely the power of this message. In Hungary, the anti-corruption message hit Orban hard.

Friends in Amsterdam, I'll be speaking Mon April 13th at the John Adams Institute, on "Shadows of the American Dream: On Inequality, Ambitions and Opportunity" www.john-adams.nl/evan-osnos/

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"Tell me how this ends?" In an emergency Iran-edition of the Washington Roundtable from @newyorker.com, @janemayer.bsky.social @sbg1.bsky.social and I dig into the rationales, the blind spots, the finances, and the key lessons from Vietnam to Iraq and beyond swap.fm/l/tny-tps-Awdxs

For what lies ahead in Iran, listen to David Remnick's interview (posted Friday) with Karim Sadjadpour, who has long predicted "the autumn of the ayatollahs" but warns "The last two decades has proven that we don't have the ability to dictate our preferred outcome." www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

Maybe a good moment to listen to this podcast on the historical pattern in which a frantic autocrat--advised by only cowering, compromised toadies--waddles into a flood of self-destructive choices. Mussolini invaded Ethiopia, then allied with Hitler, and so on www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...

Fascinating history of strongmen: The dopamine hit from power and impunity is intoxicating, but, craving a bigger hit, you go nuts -- and you lose the public. That's "autocratic backfire." With @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social @sbg1.bsky.social @janemayer.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...