Carlos Lozada

Has Trump changed America or has he helped reveal it more clearly

Alas, the final episode of the "Matter of Opinion" podcast is now live. Thanks to everyone who joined us every week over the past two years. It's been a delight. I'll miss you, @mcottle and @DouthatNYT! nytimes.com/2025/02/28/opi…

"Trump doesn’t want to do things just because they are common sense; he also calls things common sense just because he wants to do them." I dig into Trump's evolving use of the term "common sense" -- and throw in a dash of Thomas Paine. nytimes.com/2025/02/25/opi…

"We’ve gone from praising real America to parsing real Americans." I wrote about what strikes me most in the second Trump term so far: nytimes.com/2025/02/11/opi…

Hey DC, Join me this Sunday at @PoliticsProse Conn Ave location for this extra special event. Not only will we talk about my new book, Kuleana, but you get to enjoy my hula hālau that I write about perform too!

Great reporting by @AlecMacGillis: propublica.org/article/trump-…

I wanted to take @SamuelGFreedman's legendary book-writing class 20 years ago at @columbiajourn. He told me that my idea was more of a long magazine piece. (He was right.) Congrats to to Sam on an amazing 35-year run: nytimes.com/2025/05/25/boo…

I had the honor of delivering the commencement address at @SaintAnselm College in Manchester, NH, this past weekend. I talked about "How to Read Like a Human." kaltura.com/index.php/extw…?

"Not only did Democrats keep the public in the dark about Biden, they also kept Biden in the dark about the public." I read ORIGINAL SIN by @jaketapper and @AlexThomp and FIGHT by @jonallendc and @amieparnes. My thoughts:

A Peruvian-American pope? Feels right to me!

Con profundo dolor, hacemos público que nuestro padre, Mario Vargas Llosa, ha fallecido hoy en Lima, rodeado de su familia y en paz. @morganavll

Come join me at 4:30pm today at @Georgetown for a talk about political books, the Trump presidency and more... Sponsored by @HumanitiesGU and the Journalism Program. See you there! events.georgetown.edu/humanities/eve…

"The newspaper’s duty is to its readers and to the public at large, and not to the private interests of its owners." (Principle No. 4 from "The Seven Principles for the Conduct of a Newspaper," by Eugene Meyer, March 5, 1935) washingtonpost.com/about-the-post/

"The United States is not Russia by any means, and any comparisons risk going too far....But for those of us who reported there a quarter century ago, Mr. Trump’s Washington is bringing back memories of Mr. Putin’s Moscow in the early days." @peterbakernyt nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/…

“He always took time to check in on me, ask what I was working on and crack some joke that made me feel welcome. He set a totally authentic and unpretentious example of quiet leadership.” Read the updated @washingtonpost obit for my dear friend Tim Curran. washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…

One of my favorite Tim Curran memories: On June 8, 2010, we left the Post early to go to Nats Park for "Strasmas" -- Stephen Strasburg's magical debut. We sat by the right-field foul pole as Stras struck out 14 Pirates. Tim kept screaming, "White Jesus!" rollcall.com/2025/02/10/tim…

In mourning for Tim Curran, a wonderful colleague and treasured friend. What a loss. rollcall.com/2025/02/10/tim…

Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken (@ABlinken) is writing a memoir on his thirty years of public service, working in Clinton/Obama/Biden administrations. Title and pub date to come, per email from @CrownPublishing @penguinrandom.

“Another fired inspector general learned of his ouster by reading the email for the first time while on the phone with a Washington Post reporter who had called to ask about it.” washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…