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Bruce Handy

Bruce Handy

The New Yorker

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Operation Name That Excursion!

Operation Trump: The War, Operation Gulf War III, Operation Venezuela 2: Atomic Boogaloo, and other runners-up.

26.03.2026 8

The New Yorker : Daily Shouts

Bruce Handy

The Olympics Are Not Weird Enough

You want at least one weird entree on the Olympics menu, even if only for the pleasure of not ordering it.

15.02.2026 100

The New York Times

Bruce Handy

Bruce Springsteen, You’re a Beauty and You’re All Right

Kids fell hard for Springsteen because he didn’t provoke or challenge, boast or tease; he inhabited and affirmed.

26.10.2025 10

The New York Times

Bruce Handy

I’ll Have My Resistance on a Roll. Hold the Mayo.

As an emblem of resistance to Trump administration policies, the ineffectualness of a floppy sandwich is distressingly apt.

31.08.2025 10

The New York Times

Bruce Handy

When I’m Ninety-five

Woke up, got out of bed / So glad I wasn’t dead.

11.08.2025 10

The New Yorker : Daily Shouts

Bruce Handy

God Bless Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt, icon, is one thing that still works in America.

06.07.2025 50

The New York Times

Bruce Handy