'Night Owls'
We're back.
Joe Klein and I reconvened on Thursday (22 January) to look back on 2025 and review the early innings of 2026.
We discussed widespread concerns about President Trump’s “mental capacity”, the president’s successes in 2025, the Democratic Party’s endless quest for defeat, astonishing advances in science and technology and our favorite movies, streamers, books and sports moments of 2025. Among other things. I think Bari Weiss is in there somewhere.
I’m hoping that our next episode will offer a well-informed view of what is happening in Germany, presently and in context. We await a response from the man who wrote literally wrote the book on the subject.
There are five major German state (Land) elections in 2026. The outcomes of those elections are going to be consequential.
(‘Night Owls’. John Ellis and Joe Klein. Recorded 22 January 2026. Produced by Dale Eisinger.)
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You so called moderates. Please spare your subscribers your Trump derangement.
Trump's Mental Capacity???? you are joking. With all due respect, I question your capacity to think independently, as your reporting on Donald Trump for the past year has been 98.2% negative, and you apparently have little insight that that incredibly negative track record reflects more on you than your subject. The man has accomplished more than any President in my lifetime, and I go back to the mists of the Truman Presidency, yet no one would ever know reading your news items. You really should just stick to technology and science news. I am hanging on because I enjoy that part of your news items, but I must say I am getting really bored with opening the "news" feed in the morning with only negative political news on Republicans, and no negative news on Democrats. (the only citation to Fox News that I can remember is when Fox published a negative "poll" on Trump) Oh, for independent, professional reporting. (of course, all the professions, including mine, have deteriorated professionally because they have replaced standards with political ideology, So, unsurprising, and really boring.)