menu_open
Margaret Sullivan

Margaret Sullivan

The Guardian

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

Here’s how the American press can survive four years of Trump

Everything we know about the next US president suggests that the press in America will be under siege in the next four years as never before. After...

07.11.2024 10

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

The candidates’ closing campaign messages could not be more different

In recent days, the Republican nominee for president of the United States has driven around in circles in a garbage truck, pretended to work at...

04.11.2024 9

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

The Washington Post and LA Times refused to endorse a candidate. Why?

The choice for president has seldom been starker. On one side is Donald Trump, a felonious and twice-impeached conman, raring to finish off the job of...

25.10.2024 4

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Fox News’s interview of Kamala Harris was grievance theater, not political journalism

Bret Baier started off his Wednesday evening interview with Kamala Harris with a barrage of combative questions about immigration, designed less to...

17.10.2024 5

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Will a disturbing scoop about Trump and Putin affect Trump’s electoral chances?

The news from Bob Woodward’s latest book is startling. The legendary Washington Post journalist has reported that as the Covid pandemic raged in...

10.10.2024 50

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

JD Vance’s slick performance can’t change the danger of another Trump presidency

Tim Walz has said he’s an unskilled debater, and he didn’t disprove that on Tuesday night in the first and only 2024 vice-presidential debate....

02.10.2024 60

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

JD Vance is factually challenged – and morally deficit

There was a moment when JD Vance could have turned back from the story. After the vice-presidential candidate posted on social media about Haitian...

19.09.2024 8

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Ella Baron on the Trump-Harris televised debate – cartoon

11.09.2024 10

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

The Guardian view on reforming parliament: trust in democracy depends on it

This week, Conservative MPs asked the Commons to “pray against” statutory instrument No 869, which exercises expedient regulatory powers under...

11.09.2024 10

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

The Guardian view on the US presidential debate: Kamala Harris’s triumph isn’t transformative, but it was essential

If presidential debates don’t really matter, as some have contended, Kamala Harris would not have been on the stage in Philadelphia on Tuesday...

11.09.2024 10

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

ABC’s debate moderators did what they said was impossible: fact-checking Trump

They said it couldn’t be done. For years, we’ve heard all the reasons – excuses, really – that presidential debates cannot and should not be...

11.09.2024 10

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Left high and dry by Oasis ticket prices?

06.09.2024 9

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

The Kamala Harris campaign is fighting on Trump’s level – and it’s working

Back in 2016, as Michelle Obama was doing a campaign speech for Hillary Clinton, she urged a way to deal with bullies like Donald Trump. “When they...

29.08.2024 60

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Why did this conservative US judge endorse Kamala Harris?

J Michael Luttig has never endorsed a Democrat before. That’s no surprise since the well-respected legal scholar – a retired federal appeals court...

21.08.2024 70

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Kamala Harris must speak to the press

I can understand why Kamala Harris hasn’t given a sit-down interview to a major media organization or done a no-holds-barred press conference since...

13.08.2024 5

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

I feel joy at my friend Evan Gershkovich’s release. But the anger lingers

It was a headline that many American journalists yearned to see, in the place they most wanted to see it. Spread across the Wall Street Journal’s...

02.08.2024 6

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

The media is already failing in its duty to fairly cover Kamala Harris

It’s going to be ugly, that much is already clear. In the few days since Kamala Harris began her 2024 campaign for president, the media has shown us...

26.07.2024 80

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

‘Turning down the temperature’ shouldn’t mean silencing all criticism of Trump

Since Donald Trump was injured on Saturday in the chilling assassination attempt at his Pennsylvania rally, the nation has been advised – including...

16.07.2024 10

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Buy a Ben Jennings signed print from his exhibition - Snowflake’s Progress

09.07.2024 9

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

The media has been breathlessly attacking Biden. What about Trump?

It’s possible for two conflicting ideas to be true at once. And so it is with the mainstream media’s unrelenting focus on Joe Biden’s mental...

09.07.2024 300

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

This Fourth of July, it’s hard to feel optimistic about the US. But I have hope

If you’ve been paying even the slightest bit of attention, you know that the American Experiment took some gut punches over the last week. Joe Biden...

04.07.2024 30

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Even factchecking Trump’s constant lies probably wouldn’t have rescued Biden

From the moment the candidates walked out on to the stage in Atlanta, it was obvious that this debate was a big mistake for Joe Biden. By the end, it...

28.06.2024 20

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Conservatives could accidentally help Biden win his debate with Trump

If Joe Biden is to win November’s election, he must win this week’s televised debate. He must come off as energetic and competent. He must make...

24.06.2024 8

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Jeff Bezos once saved the Washington Post. Now he needs to do it again

What’s the point of owning the Washington Post if it’s no longer the Washington Post? By that, I mean the iconic US newspaper whose storied...

12.06.2024 5

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

If the Washington Post is to fly again, its journalists must share the cockpit

When Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post in 2013, he said he wanted to give the storied but struggling newspaper the “runway” it needed to take...

04.06.2024 10

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

At long last, ‘Teflon Don’ Trump couldn’t unstick himself from the legal system

For decades, he skated. Nothing seemed to stick to the Teflon-coated businessman-turned-president. The guy who didn’t pay his bills, who constantly...

01.06.2024 20

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Trump’s ‘unified reich’ video was a message not a mistake

We’ve been here before. Donald Trump says or does something outrageous, and then walks it back slightly. But his message as a would-be authoritarian...

23.05.2024 30

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Trump’s hush-money case has proven he’s a low-life. Can it prove he’s a criminal?

When you set out to explore Donald Trump’s personal life and business practices, you don’t expect to meet any paragons of virtue. Sleazy media...

14.05.2024 100

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Just how low will Republican politicians stoop to be Trump’s running mate?

Kristen Welker, the moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, did her best to pin down Tim Scott last Sunday. Would the junior senator from South Carolina...

08.05.2024 70

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Trump’s hush-money case might finally show him what accountability feels like

Donald Trump, who once bragged that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any voters, has gotten away for years with unimaginable...

24.04.2024 50

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

NPR needs a serious critique not a politically charged parting shot

It took only days from Uri Berliner’s publishing his fiery essay about his employer, NPR, to his suspension, to his resignation in a blaze of...

18.04.2024 30

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

For the future of US abortion rights under a second Trump presidency, look to Arizona

Sometimes, in 2024 America, you have to pinch yourself to make sure you’re not in a long-running dystopian nightmare. Then again, maybe we all are....

11.04.2024 50

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Polls show Trump winning key swing states. That’s partly a failure of the press

I learned the hard way to be skeptical about the predictive power of public opinion polls. I remember election night 2016 all too well, as I hit...

05.04.2024 60

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Trump got some good financial news this week. But there’s a dark side

Donald Trump has had an encouraging day or two on the money front. On Monday, a New York appeals panel lowered – to a mere $175m – the amount the...

27.03.2024 30

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Follow Margaret Sullivan Can NBC News recover from its damaging decision to hire Ronna McDaniel?

As boneheaded corporate decisions go, the one by NBC News to bring on Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor is right up there. Whatever twisted purpose...

26.03.2024 40

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

A year ago Russia jailed Evan Gershkovich for doing journalism. He’s still there

The photograph, framed and in a place of honor, is precious to me. Taken in 2016 outside a Manhattan restaurant, it’s a casual shot of four young...

18.03.2024 20

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Follow Margaret Sullivan Taylor Swift can teach us all a lesson in how democracy works

If you’re any kind of a Taylor Swift fan, you’ve seen the footage of the pop star arguing with her father. The subject is politics. Or, more...

07.03.2024 9

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Stop fantasizing and deal with reality: it’s going to be Biden against Trump

It can be diverting – even fun – to fantasize about who might become the next president of the United States. Wouldn’t it be cool if, say, the...

27.02.2024 40

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Follow Margaret Sullivan Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview wasn’t journalism. It was sycophancy

The former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s much touted sit-down with Vladimir Putin was many things. It was damaging to global democracy, giving...

11.02.2024 200

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

The spectacular collapse of the Messenger is a lesson on how not to do journalism

The new journalism outlet began less than a year ago to considerable fanfare. Claiming it would be unbiased and indispensable, the Messenger recruited...

02.02.2024 5

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

We must start urgently talking about the dangers of a second Trump presidency

With Trump’s victory in New Hampshire, the battle lines are drawn for November. Unless something very weird happens, we’re looking at a Joe Biden...

25.01.2024 100

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Local newspapers are withering under destructive owners. We should worry

Paul Moore vividly remembers the Baltimore Sun in its heyday, not so long ago. “More than 400 newsroom staff, six foreign bureaus and a 12-person...

18.01.2024 40

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Elise Stefanik wants to be Trump’s running mate. That’s unfortunate

Elise Stefanik is having a moment. If she were a song on the Billboard chart, she’d have a bullet next to her name to show the speed of her...

11.01.2024 10

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Biden’s January 6 speech is bigger than the ‘horserace’. Can the media say that?

When Joe Biden talks on Saturday about US democracy on the brink, there’s no doubt that it will be a campaign speech. Maybe the most important one...

04.01.2024 30

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Follow Margaret Sullivan I never thought I’d listen to vinyl records again. Now I am – and I love it

Living in a Manhattan apartment, I’ve learned to streamline. I have what I need and not too much more. So when a large box arrived at holiday time...

02.01.2024 30

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Trump shouldn’t be eligible to run again. But America’s highest court may disagree

Should there be a political price to pay for a president who refuses to engage in a peaceful transfer of power and incites a violent coup to stay in...

22.12.2023 10

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Special counsel Jack Smith made a gutsy, momentous decision in his prosecution of Donald Trump

Timing isn’t everything. But it certainly matters, and seldom more so than in special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of Donald Trump. The former...

13.12.2023 10

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

81c9cf1d4d15d9dd7e681e897c010de7