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July 30, 2025

Q&A: Kurt Baumeister on Trump Craziness, Norse Myths, and His Novel 'Twilight of the Gods'

July 30, 2025/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Kurt Baumeister on Trump Craziness, Norse Myths, and His Novel 'Twilight of the Gods'

Like a lot of Americans, I’ve spent the last decade dealing with one Trump generated national embarrassment after the next

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July 30, 2025/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Trump, Norse Mythology
December 17, 2023

REVIEW: Is Trump Killing the Republican Party?

December 17, 2023/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Is Trump Killing the Republican Party?

We Make the Mistake of Continually Thinking Politics Cannot Get any Worse

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December 17, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
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Trump, Republicans, American Politics
September 20, 2022

5 HOT BOOKS: A U.S. Attorney on Battling Trump, What is Mental Illness?, and More

September 20, 2022/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A U.S. Attorney on Battling Trump, What is Mental Illness?, and More

And Ling Ma’s Story Collection, Full of Compelling Female Narrators

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September 20, 2022/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Trump, U.S. Attorneys
December 31, 2019

LIST: Don't Look Now -- President Trump Has a List of 2019's Best Books, Too

December 31, 2019/ Adam Cohen
LIST: Don't Look Now -- President Trump Has a List of 2019's Best Books, Too

There Is a Pattern: Trump Mainly Likes Books that Praise Trump

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December 31, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Trump, Trump's Tweet's
September 09, 2019

5 HOT BOOKS: Trump and Television, America the Transactional Nation, and More

September 09, 2019/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Trump and Television, America the Transactional Nation, and More

And Margaret Atwood Returns to Gilead, with a Follow-Up to the Handmaid’s Tale

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September 09, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Trump, Television
July 30, 2019

5 HOT BOOKS: The Dark Forces that Gave Us Trump, How We Talk on Online, and More

July 30, 2019/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: The Dark Forces that Gave Us Trump, How We Talk on Online, and More

And a Close Look at the Sex Lives of Three American Women

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July 30, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Trump, Internet, Sex
June 18, 2019

5 HOT BOOKS: Trump is Under Siege, a Memoir of Boxing in Alaska, and More

June 18, 2019/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Trump is Under Siege, a Memoir of Boxing in Alaska, and More

And Counterculture Hackers Who Are Trying to Save the World

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June 18, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Trump, Michael Wolff, Boxing
October 04, 2018

REVIEW: Pulling Back the Curtain on the Trump Horror Show

October 04, 2018/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Pulling Back the Curtain on the Trump Horror Show

A Close Look at a Man Who is Temperamentally Unsuited to His Job

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October 04, 2018/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Trump, Woodward, White House
July 20, 2018

Q&A: So, What's the Matter with Wisconsin?

July 20, 2018/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: So, What's the Matter with Wisconsin?

How a Quintessential Blue State Became Trump Country

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July 20, 2018/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Wisconsin, Trump, Republicans, State Politics
January 29, 2018

5 Hot Books: Trump's First 100 Days, Jefferson's Daughters, and More

January 29, 2018/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: Trump's First 100 Days, Jefferson's Daughters, and More

And A Thriller About Resisting Hitler On The Eve of World War II

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January 29, 2018/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
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Trump, Thomas Jefferson, Race
June 22, 2017

ESSAY: The Trump and Xi Jinping Era: Finding Support in Music and Words

June 22, 2017/ Adam Cohen
ESSAY: The Trump and Xi Jinping Era: Finding Support in Music and Words

These creative works "won't keep the sky from falling," but they help

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June 22, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Essay
China, Trump, J.D. Souther, Pen International
December 01, 2015

Review: A Smart, Insider's Look at the Republican Presidential Clown Car

December 01, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Review: A Smart, Insider's Look at the Republican Presidential Clown Car

Trump, Carson, Cruz, and the rest -- leading the GOP in circles through the wilderness

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December 01, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
Review
Republicans, Presidential Campaign, Cruz, Trump, Rubio
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