Tag Archives: Jon Lovett

When a joke works, it works. It can make a point in a really simple way; it can be a great little sound bite to put on television or share on social media. Humor has this incredible power in how we communicate about politics now, in part because there's something natural in the way it's […]

I am a deeply awkward person; I am not cool. Jon Lovett

I am very glad that Paul Ryan left the government as a capitulating supplicant to Donald Trump while the government was shut down, while the debt hit record levels, right? Every single thing Paul Ryan claimed to care about. Jon Lovett

It's certainly true that presidents have confidantes who rise above what you would call just staff. Jon Lovett

More and more people support equality for their gay friends and neighbors, and that is not because the 'Duck Dynasty' guy almost lost his show. Jon Lovett

Everybody hates Congress; even Congress hates Congress. Jon Lovett

Trump is a raptor testing the fences, and he found weaknesses to escape and try things that would work, every single day. Jon Lovett

So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news. Jon Lovett

There is an incredible appetite out there for in-depth, high-level conversations about what's going on. Jon Lovett

They're the last human beings susceptible to human shame. Politicians are the only people left for whom, occasionally, shame hurts them. Everyone else, we've sort of done away with it as a concept, and we're hurtling through space like animals, basically. Jon Lovett