Elizabeth Spiers

This is not about "Spheres of Influence" Pundits and talking heads who insinuate that what Trump just did in Venezuela (or what he wants to do in Greenland or Nicaragua or Cuba) is part of some larger coherent foreign policy strategy as if he and his toadies are

Why Must She Stoop So Low? [Ed. note: Almost went with "why does your network blow?" but no one under the age of 40 uses "blow" in that sense anymore.] Happy New Year! We have somehow made it to 2026 without being annihilated in a nuclear

A lump of coal from President Scrooge [The NYT assigned me a column about Christmas and affordability in the Trump economy but also assigned approximately four million other columns for the holidays and so mine didn't make it in. But here it is, 🚨EXCLUSIVELY🚨 on ElizabethSpiers.com, lol.

I might as well, right? I taught my second creative practice workshop yesterday and think it went really well. I recommended a lot of the tools and strategies that I use myself, including a lot of physical objects that would make good gifts. So at the risk of cliché, here’

I wrote about the end of Cuomo-ism for The New York Times. Here's the column: Back on Aug. 8, at 5:40 p.m., the retirement-aged nepo baby and disgraced former governor of New York tweeted at the much younger man who had soundly beaten him in June

Trump can find money for a vanity project, but not for SNAP recipients [Note: I actually filed this for the NYT ten days ago but it sort of lingered in the workflow and by the end of the week, they deemed it something that had already been written about too

Near the beginning of Andrew Cuomo's mayoral campaign, an eagle eyed observer noticed his car parked illegally and snapped a photo of it for social media. It wasn’t the worst of Andrew Cuomo’s offenses—not by a longshot. But it was indicative of something important about

As part of Talking Points Memo's 25th anniversary, I wrote an essay on early blogging, and what I miss about it. Here it is, in its entirety: Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary will probably be that I was the founding editor