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Elle
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Elle
Molly Jong-Fast on the '90s Feminist Classic She Thinks ‘Really Holds Up'
Welcome to Shelf Life, In 2023, author 'I wanted my story to be in the vein of Joan Didion's The Manhattan-born, -raised, and -based MSNBC political analyst is the host of the podcast Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast , as well as a Vanity Fair special correspondent; went to Barnard College and earned her MFA from Bennington College; has talked extensively about getting sober at 19 (when she wrote her first book, not a Good at: . Bad at: Likes: . Peruse her book recommendations below. The book that: …helped me through loss: …kept me up way too late: …made me weep uncontrollably: …I recommend over and over again: ...shaped my worldview: …I swear I'll finish one day: ...has the best opening line: 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.' — ...has the greatest ending: 'So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.' —
Yahoo
09-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
"We shouldn't have played it safe": Walz critiques 2024 campaign strategy of "prevent defense"
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz may have a state to run, but he's still got plenty of time to look back on what with wrong with his failed 2024 bid for the White House. The one-time vice-presidential candidate told Politico that he thinks his campaign with former Vice President Kamala Harris tanked because Democrats believed they had the race in the bag. With the benefit of hindsight, Walz wished that the Democrats would have made time for more face-to-face interactions with voters. 'We shouldn't have been playing this thing so safe,' Walz told the outlet. "I think we probably should have just rolled the dice and done the town halls, where [voters] may say, 'you're full of shit, I don't believe in you.'' In a campaign season that saw eventual victor Donald Trump record interviews with Joe Rogan and Adin Ross, Walz felt that the party was far too precious with their chosen candidates' media appearances. Walz said this strategy was born out of a sense of inevitable victory, the same sort of thinking that was behind the Democrats' last presidential election loss. "We, as a party, are more cautious,' Walz said. "In football parlance, we were in a prevent defense to not lose when we never had anything to lose because I don't think we were ever ahead." Walz has pitched his vision for a bolder, more aggressive Democratic Party since November. With the collapse of Democratic turnout for Harris' moderate campaign, Walz thinks it's up to the party to meet voters where they are on more progressive positions. "When we get back, which we will – we'll fight – I'll tell you what people are going to expect is they're not going to expect us to tinker around the edge with the ACA [Affordable Care Act.] They're going to expect universal health care," Walz shared during a visit to "Fast Politics" late last month. 'A saying I always said is, 'You lead with good policy and good politics will follow.'"
Yahoo
09-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
"We shouldn't have played it safe": Walz critiques 2024 campaign strategy of "prevent defense"
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz may have a state to run, but he's still got plenty of time to look back on what with wrong with his failed 2024 bid for the White House. The one-time vice-presidential candidate told Politico that he thinks his campaign with former Vice President Kamala Harris tanked because Democrats believed they had the race in the bag. With the benefit of hindsight, Walz wished that the Democrats would have made time for more face-to-face interactions with voters. 'We shouldn't have been playing this thing so safe,' Walz told the outlet. "I think we probably should have just rolled the dice and done the town halls, where [voters] may say, 'you're full of shit, I don't believe in you.'' In a campaign season that saw eventual victor Donald Trump record interviews with Joe Rogan and Adin Ross, Walz felt that the party was far too precious with their chosen candidates' media appearances. Walz said this strategy was born out of a sense of inevitable victory, the same sort of thinking that was behind the Democrats' last presidential election loss. "We, as a party, are more cautious,' Walz said. "In football parlance, we were in a prevent defense to not lose when we never had anything to lose because I don't think we were ever ahead." Walz has pitched his vision for a bolder, more aggressive Democratic Party since November. With the collapse of Democratic turnout for Harris' moderate campaign, Walz thinks it's up to the party to meet voters where they are on more progressive positions. "When we get back, which we will – we'll fight – I'll tell you what people are going to expect is they're not going to expect us to tinker around the edge with the ACA [Affordable Care Act.] They're going to expect universal health care," Walz shared during a visit to "Fast Politics" late last month. 'A saying I always said is, 'You lead with good policy and good politics will follow.'"
Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
'I got sucked in': Gov. Walz regrets focus on false claim of Springfield Haitians eating pets in campaign
Feb. 28—Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said on a podcast this week that one of his regrets from last year's presidential campaign was getting "sucked into" the false claim that Haitians were eating pets in Springfield. Walz was on the Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast podcast to talk about the 2024 election. "I will kick myself that I got sucked in. I betcha spent three or four days, maybe longer, not clowning but just hammering them over the eating dogs and cats because it was so ridiculous and I took that hook, line and sinker," he said. "We were talking about immigration at a critical part of the campaign and it was hurtful and it pissed me off and I was standing there to defend people and it didn't do a damn bit of good electorally." The nonprofit journalism fact-checking site would rate the false claim from President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance that Haitian immigrants in Springfield were eating pets the "Lie of the Year." But Trump handily defeated Walz — the running mate of former Vice President Kamala Harris — in the election, especially in Ohio where Trump carried the state by the widest margin of any presidential candidate in 40 years.
Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
"They're going to expect universal healthcare": Walz says voter will demand more of Democrats
Endless post-mortems have dissected where the Democrats go after their loss in November. But Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz knows exactly what will pull the party out of the wilderness: universal healthcare. In an interview with 'Fast Politics,' Walz said Democrats needed to offer a bolder vision in the next round of elections. 'When we get back, which we will – we'll fight – I'll tell you what people are going to expect is they're not going to expect us to tinker around the edge with the ACA [Affordable Care Act.] They're going to expect universal healthcare," Walz said. 'A saying I always said is, 'You lead with good policy and good politics will follow.'' Walz, who ruled out a Senate run earlier this week, recalled the massive policy wins that Minnesota Democrats achieved with a razor-thin majority in the state legislature as evidence that Dems can get it done. 'If there's a lesson here, I always said this: we had a one-vote majority in Minnesota when we moved clean energy, we moved reproductive rights, we moved a whole slew of progressive, very popular, including things around guns and gun safety, very popular things,' Walz said. 'We moved it with a one-vote majority.' Walz also spoke about the struggles of running a state government as the administration of President Donald Trump leads an assault on funding. 'As a governor, you're trying to triage the situation as it stands,' Walz said. 'You're trying to craft a budget, a normal budget in an environment where there's just such great uncertainty about what he does and what it means to our people.' Asked about specific cuts to Minnesota organizations, Walz said his administration would do its best to keep important services afloat. 'Now look, if they cut our funding, it's $2 billion, out of a roughly $30 billion state budget,' he said. 'So it's a massive hole that we can't fill alone, but there are things that we can do. There are things that we can push back on. There are things that we can separate.' Watch the full interview here:
