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Husband, Dad, @RealClearPolitics; TV analyst; op-eds NYT & WashPost; author; editorial director; professor; lecturer;

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1Jun 12, '24This is Howard’s wife, Amy Nathan. I am heartbroken to share my brilliant and extraordinary husband passed away late last night surrounded by those he loved most, his family. He va118×3.6M20k2.2k285
2Sep 8, '23The Logan Act makes it a federal crime for private citizens to conduct foreign policy on their own — not to mention making military decisions that contradict U.S. strategic goals. 72.9×2.2M12k3.1k152
3Sep 18, '23Read your history books before these American Nazis burn them. The books will tell you that when people such as this light fires, the world descends into darkness.22.5×676k6.2k2.3k101
4May 21, '23Happy 72nd birthday to my dear friend of 35 years, (still should be a) Sen. Al Franken. Were he still in office, he’d be younging-up the Senate. He was a dogged, brilliant advocate21×631k12k1.3k12
5Oct 12, '20I guess this is @PeteButtigieg night. This answer to a question on “late term” abortion embodies the kind of decency, detail and respect that we used to think was possible—even req14.8×041k6.6k346
6Nov 18, '17I've watched @alfranken unfairly bracketed w/ accused serial sexual predators. He & I've been family friends for decades. As a comic, he could be crude. He went too far (& 12.8×027k8.5k0
7Jul 17, '20I ask again: By what authority and at whose command are these #Trump vigilantes on the streets of #Portland? There is no more urgent question in public life. Seriously.10.2×022k7.6k35
8Apr 16, '20.⁦@senatemajldr⁩’s got a real race on his hands for the first time in decades.10.0×025k4.9k39
9Oct 30, '18Further: @realDonaldTrump WH called the top #PA and #Pittsburgh officials one at a time and lied to each that the others had agreed. WH did the same to #Schumer and #Pelosi. No one9.8×017k7.7k56
10Feb 29, '20I didn’t know this, but someone in a position to know told me that @realDonaldTrump’s morning national security briefing now is mostly pictures, drawings and simple charts because 9.3×019k5.9k120
11Sep 24, '19Very solid #Dem House leadership source just confirmed to me that @SpeakerPelosi will announce a formal impeachment inquiry this afternoon and imply that she herself favors impeach8.5×017k4.6k50
12Jul 10, '20Just had a long talk with #RogerStone. He says he doesn’t want a pardon (which implies guilt) but a commutation, and says he thinks #Trump will give it to him. “He knows I was unde8.4×013k5.2k346
13Jun 21, '20This picture of #Trump at Andrews after the #Tulsa disaster is unlike any we’ve ever seen. Ever the dime-store dramaturg, he’s undone his tie and put on the look of a defeated man.7.7×018k3.7k164
14Aug 22, '20The #Trump family did its best to turn the lovely Rose Garden into a neo-fascist parade ground.6.6×05.1k1.3k39
15Jul 12, '23I’ve known and covered #JoeBiden for decades. He’s matching deep experience, which I saw him amass, to tough times. His record as POTUS so far (juvenile critics aside) is solid: jo6.5×195k4.6k93630
16May 25, '20Waiting for @senatemajldr to denounce this — vehemently, convincingly.6.4×014k3.8k61
17Feb 29, '24I've known #MitchMcConnell for 40 years. He's done more to undermine compassionate government in that span than any other person by totally remaking the federal bench in his grim i6.4×192k4.3k1.2k55
18Oct 9, '23Yes he works for @FoxNews, but this guy has been around a long time so he surely knows that a daytime “lid” doesn’t mean no activity behind closed doors at the #WhiteHouse, it gene6.2×188k2.9k5968
19Oct 27, '18My God #TreeofLife synagogue in #Pittsburgh is the loving, dignified place where my sister and I attended, and our parents taught, Sunday school; where I was bar mitzah; where my s6.1×017k2.5k16
20Oct 30, '18Just checked with sources in #Pittsburgh: the mayor, county executive and governor will NOT accompany or meet with @realDonaldTrump as he and Melania visit the city as families bur5.4×011k3.8k29
21Mar 11, '20Best @JoeBiden speech tonight I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been covering him since 1987. Calm, dignified, with his smart and capable wife Jill beside him.5.2×014k2k32
22Jun 9, '19My twitter feed is asking a legitimate question: are @realDonaldTrump’s businesses and family profiting from insider knowledge of his pending — market-moving — tweets, comments and4.7×08.7k3.6k34
23Nov 16, '23I’m staying on this filthy site at least for a while, so I can stand hip-deep in this sty, denouncing the pig who bought it and has befouled it. That would be you, @elonmusk. You’r4.6×139k3.4k55510
24Dec 16, '19Read This: "#Russia’s State TV Calls #Trump Their ‘Agent’". Do Americans care? #Republican leaders clearly don’t.4.6×06.8k4.2k85
25Feb 5, '20That said, it was an unforced PR error by @SpeakerPelosi to tear up the speech in front of the cameras on the rostrum. Whom did that help? @realDonaldTrump.4.6×07.1k1.2k12
26Nov 5, '20My best vote-counter source in #PA now predicting final #Biden victory margin of 200K - 300K. That’s a tick up from a few hours ago.4.5×013k1.4k44
27Apr 29, '18RE #MichelleWolf: 1. Yep: blunt, crude, pitiless. Remind you of, say, a president? 2. She torched EVERYONE, even #Dems, #Stormy, #media. 3. She wasn’t playing to all America or the4.5×011k2.1k7
28Jun 19, '19.@realDonaldTrump just told #LindseyGraham to his face at the rally that he — the senator — would be nowhere politically in South Carolina had he not decided to kiss the president’4.4×08.4k2.6k25
29May 1, '19The Beltway take on #Barr is that he’s a good man corrupted by proximity to @realDonaldTrump. Actually, he’s always been a ruthless, intellectually dishonest shill for untrammeled 4.4×09k3.1k27
30Jul 16, '19Historians who’ve studied the impeachment of #AndrewJohnson say the real charge against him was not so much a particular high crime or misdemeanor as it was his foul, hate-filled i4.4×09.4k3k44
31Jan 31, '19I interviewed @HowardSchultz for @HuffPost a few years ago. He struck me as annoyingly self-impressed and self-aggrandizing. Selling oceans of coffee mainly qualifies him to...sell4.2×09.8k2.6k24
32Sep 4, '20Everyone knows that military leaders, active and recently retired, are unloading on #Trump to the media, on condition that they remain unidentified. Well, if they want to have impa4.1×011k2.1k9
33Apr 21, '23My wonderful wife, Amy Lee Nathan, and I were married on April 21, 1984. She was busy studying for the DC bar: I was covering my first presidential campaign for #Newsweek. Four dec4.1×122k3.6k924
34Sep 20, '18Sen. LindseyGraham didn’t even wait for @SenJohnMcCain to be buried at Annapolis to flee to the heaving bosom of a man he once claimed, as an allegedly principled political maveric3.9×08.4k2.5k10
35Jul 16, '18We’ve got to assume that #Putin has tons of hidden financial, political and other information on .@realDonaldTrump, ranging from the merely interesting to the explosively damaging.3.9×07.8k3k10
36Aug 15, '18I’m so glad @alfranken is slowly but surely venturing back out into the public square. It’s where he belongs: his brilliant mind, good heart and thought-provoking humor deserve a p3.8×09k2.4k3
37Nov 22, '23As a boy I loved to watch #JFK’s press conferences. I didn’t want to be him—an impossible dream—but I wanted to be in the press corps asking him questions. We all loved our country3.6×108k3.3k50030
38Mar 4, '20Based on exit polls, it’s clear there’s a far bigger surge of suburban college-educated women for @JoeBiden than one of new Millennial and Gen Z voters for @BernieSanders. So Berni3.5×08.6k2k54
39Oct 5, '20#SecretService agents swear to take a bullet FOR the president, not FROM the president.3.5×010k1.4k13
40Aug 26, '18If you read carefully, you see that, even as @SenJohnMcCain died, @realDonaldTrump couldn’t bring himself to say a single nice word about the man.3.3×06.9k2k2
41Oct 16, '23#JoeBiden was a guest lecturer in 2018 for my seminar when I was teaching at @penn; #GeorgeWBush and I lectured each other on the campaign trail in 2000. I’ve known both for decade3.2×97k3313914
42Jul 26, '20Too late for you to help, or get any credit, #MitchMcConnell. You’ve done more than any member of Congress — perhaps anyone in America — to empower #Trump’s ruinous, literally leth3.2×06.6k2.1k14
43Jun 14, '20It would be sad and pitiable if any president other than #Trump were tweeting this “explanation” of his gingerly, frightened ramp descent at West Point. But given his habit of crue3.0×07.6k1.6k17
44Feb 21, '22David Martin of @CBSNews, a superb reporter I’ve known for decades and worked with at the original Newsweek for many years—and whom I trust totally—says #Putin has just ordered #Ru3.0×03.8k1.7k221
45Aug 26, '21FYI, this is one of the swiftest and largest humanitarian evacuations in history.2.9×08.6k1.1k18
46Nov 2, '18May I ask an impertinent question: if @steelers players are praised for willingly going as a team to a synagogue to pay respects to the suffering at #TreeofLife, why can’t they kne2.9×06.8k1.8k10
47Nov 8, '23Tonight’s losers: Trump Youngkin Political pundits Pollsters CNN Ramawhatshisname DavidAxelrod2.9×86k3.2k61319
48Sep 28, '18The flawed #Kavanaugh hearing worked in one sense. It showed him as he really is: a hot-tempered, ferociously ambitious political warrior who honed his gut fighter skills in Yale’s2.7×05.5k2k10
49Jul 17, '20This can’t happen. It’s not us. By what authority are they there? What laws are they enforcing? We do not have a national police force nor do we want one. This is an illegally asse2.6×04.9k2k28
50Oct 13, '20The tense, take-no-prisoners prosecutorial takedown of Judge #Barrett by @KamalaHarris was the riveting climax of the hearing today, and it looked like Barrett knew it.2.5×05.2k1.1k17
51Aug 14, '18I was in #Hanoi with ⁦@SenJohnMcCain⁩ in 2000; saw where he was shot down and the prison in which he nearly died. Now he’s bravely facing death again. It’s almost beyond comprehens2.5×05.3k1.7k2
52Oct 29, '18#Pittsburgh sources tell me that the @realDonaldTrump WH is FALSELY claiming on #Fox and elsewhere that the PA gov, pgh mayor and county exec will join him at a rally in the city o2.4×04.6k1.8k14
53Jul 25, '16Let's see: #Putin wants to destroy #NATO. Russian oligarchs lend #Trump money. Trump says he admires Putin & NATO is bad. Russians hack DNC.2.3×02.9k2.4k0
54Aug 1, '19If @jaketapper were a marriage counselor everyone would be divorced.2.3×06.4k81010
55Jan 17, '20I’ve known @mkraju for years on the Hill and watched him work it with exhaustive effort and professionalism. He’s not an ideologue; he cares about news scoops and gets them with lo2.2×06.1k1k6
56Aug 13, '20Please: #JimmyCarter, #BillClinton, #GeorgeWBush and #BarackObama join together and denounce #Trump’s #USPS coup attempt. Immediately.2.1×04.8k1.5k7
57Nov 22, '20There are NOT “two sides” to the story of the presidential election result. There’s only one factual, true story: that the #BidenHarris ticket won, with 306 EVs and a 6-million PV 2.0×05k1.1k21
58Aug 18, '18.@realDonaldTrump is lucky. If the United States were the kind of country he’s trying to turn us into, there already would have been a military coup. The Constitution and rule of l2.0×04.3k1.3k11
59Oct 19, '18#MBS just purged his intel and ops team, blaming them for #Khashoggi murder. They won’t be jailed at Ritz-Carlton; it may be bone saw time. In the U.S., the question is whether @re2.0×03.6k1.2k7
60Nov 17, '21News orgs blandly report that #Trump has “ordered” former aides to “invoke” executive privilege to refuse to testify to Congress, THAT IS NOT A THING! Trump isn’t president. They’r2.0×05.4k87312
61Oct 13, '20Only a fool or a Republican could believe #AmyConeyBarrett’s claim that she did not “recall” whether or when #Trump vowed to nominate judges who would overturn #Roe and the #ACA. @1.9×04.5k1.2k10
62Oct 11, '16Women of all political stripes have told me that #Trump's scowling, hovering presence near #Hillary Sunday scared them. Men didn't notice.1.9×02.7k1.5k0
63Apr 24, '20As a humble and, I swear, patriotic American, I ask fellow countrymen who support @realDonaldTrump whether they still trust the guy after he suggested that you might want to inject1.8×04.4k9679
64Oct 30, '18Top WH official tells me #PA #GovTomWolf is “weak” for refusing to appear in #Pittsburgh with @realDonaldTrump. But Wolf and other Dems declined in tandem. So did every Republican 1.8×03.9k1.2k5
65Jan 7, '21Brilliant, informative interview by @StephenAtHome with @amyklobuchar about the gravity of this moment. She said the senators from both parties sheltered together and talked frankl1.8×05.4k57518
66Jul 31, '19And @PeteButtigieg’s calm, sunny reasonableness is a tonic — and makes him a contender. He really does seem like someone with the type of personality to bring people of all kinds t1.8×05k66311
67Nov 14, '19It’s impossible to overstate how much kompromat #VladimirPutin likely has on @realDonaldTrump, from the latter’s sloppy, unsecured phone calls—plus documents, spies, summit meeting1.8×03.9k1.2k16
68May 5, '19.@SpeakerPelosi is correct. If @realDonaldTrump loses in 2020 — a big if — the country must hope it’s by a wide, convincing margin in the popular vote and Electoral College. If it’1.7×03.4k8528
69Jun 23, '19As a reporter/writer who spent 30 years at the (great) old Newsweek, and who admired ⁦@TIME⁩, I’ve gotta say that this image is an outrage. I know that Henry Luce worshipped the Gr1.7×03.3k70214
70Apr 13, '19What makes anyone think ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ would voluntarily relinquish the office of president on Jan. 20, 2021 if he loses the election? You always know what he’s planning by wha1.6×02.8k1.1k18
71Oct 13, '20If you’re watching #confirmation hearings for #AmyConeyBarrett, you saw a brilliant lecture by @SenWhitehouse about how the Right, fueled by Big Business dark money, has hijacked t1.6×03.5k1.1k29
72Oct 27, '18I want to use whatever role I have here now to tell the people of my home neighborhood of #SquirrelHill in #Pittsburgh: I love you all so much and grieve for your — our — loss.1.6×04.5k6082
73May 23, '20This is a #GOP governor literally crying at what #Trump and his mob have done to turn #COVID masks into a political statement.1.5×03.4k1k59
74Oct 27, '18I’m not sure that there’s been a more deadly attack on a synagogue in America. Or this kind of mass shooting in #Pittsburgh. And it happened in #SquirrelHill, one of the safest, qu1.5×03.4k9776
75Aug 16, '20I know @repjimcooper. Known him for many years. He’s the opposite of a hysteric. If he’s saying this, we’re at a canary-in-the-coal-mine moment in what remains of our representativ1.5×03.3k1.1k11
76Apr 1, '20#COVIDー19 and the collapsing economy are bad political news for @JoeBiden, crippling his desperately-needed fundraising and adding extra urgency to @BernieSanders rationale for sta1.5×03.1k60915
77Oct 14, '20So a guy gives a repair shop a laptop and hard drive and the shop owner doesn’t know who the guy is and copies the hard drive which has criminal Hunter Biden emails and #Bannon hea1.5×03.3k78125
78Sep 6, '20The most obvious, yet still infuriating thing in #PeterStrzok book is his belated admission that #Comey blew it when he criticized #HillaryClinton on the eve of the ‘16 election, a1.5×03.7k7299
79Jan 11, '19My @msnbc colleague @AriMelber makes a brilliant point about the obvious (and therefore easy to miss) flaw in @realDonaldTrump’s “national emergency” threat: it’s not an “emergency1.5×03.5k8922
80Aug 30, '20By my count we’ve had three #CivilWars: the Big One; the vicious Southern backlash to Reconstruction; the violence in the Civil Rights Era. We’re entering a fourth now. In this one1.5×03.4k88313
81Mar 25, '22Please, everyone, pause the fury for a minute and admit that @joeBiden, as unpopular as he is and as tough a hand as he has to play, so far is deftly handling #Putin, #Ukraine, #NA1.4×03k39814
82Jun 11, '19.@AndrewYang makes a clever point. Alaskans get payments from profits companies make on a publicly-owned asset: crude oil. Likewise, he argues, all of us should be paid from profit1.4×03.1k77926
83Jun 12, '19Donald, sorry to bother you while you’re watching Lou Dobbs reruns, but the new, big-time, TV public opinion poll shows you losing the #2020 presidential election to a super-boyish1.3×03.6k5343
84Nov 4, '20I was told by #PA insiders to keep an eye on the House race in the 10th district, in the south central part of the state. If the #Dem won there, they told me, it would be great new1.3×03k74031
85Dec 23, '18.@business reports that @realDonaldTrump is privately threatening to fire #Fed chairman Jay Powell. To be clear: the only thing arguably more impeachable than firing the special co1.3×02.6k9012
86Sep 28, '18Just a note to say that @kasie of @MSNBC is killing it on the Hill. She has the place wired, and is accurate, careful and without an ounce of cynicism at a time when our public ins1.2×03.5k4282
87Nov 6, '19#Bevin has not conceded to #Beshear, but #KY has no automatic recount law and Bevin has to go to state court to argue for one. The margin looks too big to overcome. Knowing Bevin, 1.2×03.2k5305
88Jun 28, '20I see more clearly than ever that #Trump is a pyromaniac. He is a self-loathing loser whose deepest response to life’s challenges is to seek brief consolation in lighting the world1.2×02.8k63213
89Jan 22, '21It is always best to assume that #MitchMcConnell will screw you over as completely as possible the moment he thinks doing so will increase his odds of maintaining or expanding his 1.2×02.8k61111
90Jun 6, '21A quiet beach in Normandy yesterday. Still, and always, the pivotal moment of the modern world. We must honor the memory of those who fought and died for freedom and the rule of la1.1×03.2k48218
91Mar 3, '20Just spoke to @HardballChris. He’s upbeat, not bitter; eager for more writing, speaking out, after a record run in a cold business hosting an era-defining show. Perfect person? No,1.1×03.2k2623
92Nov 5, '20#CNN just confirmed that #Biden won Erie County, a #PA bellwether for the last 40 years.1.1×03.1k41211
93Sep 1, '18As we focus on funerals that sum up the best of our history—with speeches by three two-term presidents and music by the great performers—it’s chilling that the ceremonies bespeak c1.1×02.6k6514
94Nov 8, '18Basically, all good reporters are assholes, especially when they are lied to contemptuously by people in power. That’s how we’re built, and that is our job, especially in America, 1.1×02.6k5544
95Aug 24, '20I’ve gotten emails taking issue with my tweet about the #RoseGarden. I said it now looks like a “neo-fascist parade ground.” I’ve now seen aerial photos and realize I was wrong. It1.1×02.6k3291
96Oct 2, '21As usual, @AOC cut the through the noise on the Hill, this time by saying in clear, kitchen table terms what’s in the big “social” bill for not-rich families; things such as dental1.0×03k3315
97Jun 25, '20.@StephenKing here gives us a lesson in clear, best-selling prose style.1.0×02.7k4956
98Oct 28, '18What am I thinking about this morning? The Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C.1.0×02.8k3513
99Feb 23, '19My wife and I are in and out of the house a lot these days — more than usual — and aren’t always coordinating the walking and feeding our rescue lab, Cody. If alone with one of us,0.9×02.7k1552
100Oct 30, '18Writing and tv work done for now, all I can think about is my late parents, who taught at #TreeofLife to give my sister and me a deeper grounding in Jewish identity to blend with o0.9×02.7k3474
101Jul 23, '20.@StephenAtHome's interview tonight with #MaryTrump was brilliant. He's a student of human psychology (starting with his own!), knows American politics as well as anyone on TV, and0.9×02.6k3686

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