the daily howler

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2026 Much as we've recently said: We don't expect to be posting again until next week, much as we've recently said.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2026 Where we all are at this point: Who were we kidding?

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2026 ...about president's future conduct: Exactly as we told you on Friday, full services will resume some day this very week!

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2026 Such as those services are: On Monday, we expect to return to something resembling normal services, such as those services are.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2026 The latest "Deplorables moment?"

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2026 "What, us add to the debt?"

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2026 Psaki, O'Donnell score points: Returning from our own private south of France, we expect to resume light posting tomorrow.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2026 ...on this September 11: We don't expect to be posting again until next week.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2026 But also, the president's "mental health:" She appeared last night with Lawrence O'Donnell, but who is Mary Peltola?

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2026 Isn't it phony to think so: They don't know how to report it, he said.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2026 Reliable information: We've been reliably told that Labor Day weekend is officially over.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2026 Our stay in the Little Boxes: We start today, as we often do, with the latest expressions of the madness—rather, of the dueling madnesses—which now threaten the nation and the world.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2026 Mental illness, conjured as insult: There he went again.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2026 Wehner sidesteps Trump: Is it possible that the sitting president, in an act of rage, could go ahead and destroy the world?

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2026 ...when we saw Psaki speak with Pat Ryan: The late John Frankenheimer began his career with several remarkable movies.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2026 But first, the rage of Vance: We applaud the news judgment on display in this morning's New York Times.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2026 ...for being compared to a cow: Last night, during Segment 3, Greg Gutfeld once again recited the dumbest, phoniest rationalization in all of human history.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2026 Red rage in a dangerous time: In Wallace Stevens' famous poem, his protagonist "dreams a little, and feels the dark encroachment of that old catastrophe."

MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2026 What the good person Sellers said: This very morning, we emitted an inexcusable thought.

MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2026 Rage of Laura Loomer: Has the United States (E pluribus unum) somehow become two different nations, one Red and the other one Blue?

SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 2026 Lake Ontario Days: Inevitably, the week's events occasioned memories of our own Lake Ontario Days.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2026 "Clinically insane," anchor says: Is it possible that the sitting president is "clinically insane?"

THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2026 ...our Blue stars refuse to respond: This morning, we posted a key part of Michelle Goldberg's column from Sunday's New York Times.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2026 So says the sitting president: We had planned to focus our reports this week on Michelle Goldberg's column for the New York Times.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2026 ...was recorded by Dolly Parton: As far as we know, it's generally regarded as Woody Guthrie's last significant song.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2026 Let's discuss "the girl" instead: Given the "mental decline" of the sitting president—but also, given his "continuing, demented fit of rage:" Given those present-day manifestations, is it possible that the Kennedy Center could be

TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2026 Except when it comes to this: Bill Maher and Scott Galloway recently hooked up at a club.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2026 ...who wasn't willing to ask: Is something wrong with President Trump?

MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2026 Lightly stoned, Bill defers: We're glad to see DePaolo and Gilmour covering the things that get said on Morning Joe.

MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2026 But is anyone willing to ask?

SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2026 Citizen Heilemann, please!

FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2026 Unless you're watching Fox: Who will control the Senate next year?

FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2026 We Blues most likely won't: "Jesus Christ is down here on the waterfront?"