Date: February 18, 2017
"So we're stuck in Trump's head with him. ... It's a very cluttered place to be, a fine-tuned machine spewing a torrent of chaos, cruelty, confusion, farce and transfixing craziness."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
Date: February 18, 2017
"Then think of the president's skull, which is stuffed with other humours: insecurity, insincerity, victimhood, paranoia, mockery, self-delusion, suspicion, calculation, illogic, vindictiveness, risk, bullying, alimentiveness, approbativeness, vitativeness. Gall, divided into three parts."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
Date: February 27, 2017
"And I don't want to pray, but I can picture / the plants deepening right now into the soil, / wanting to live, so I lie down among them, / in my ripped pink tank top, filthy and covered / in sweat, among red burying beetles and dirt / that's been turned and turned like a problem / in the mind."
preview | full record— Limón, Ada (b. March 28, 1976)
Date: March 18, 2017
"The Hirshhorn has a sold-out exhibit of Yayoi Kusama's stunning infinity mirror rooms. But they are nothing compared to the infinity mirror room of Trump's mind, now on display a mile and a half away at the White House."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
Date: March 18, 2017
"So many secrets, so many plots, so many shards of gossip swirl in his head, there seems to be no room for reality."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
Date: July 27, 2017
"'My emotions are like a Ping-Pong ball being bounced back and forth between the players,' said Mrs. Borland, who, with her husband, owns a karate school in Pleasant Valley, N.Y., and whose younger daughter, Amelia, 2, is receiving chemotherapy for leukemia."
preview | full record— Hoffman, Jan
Date: July 28, 2017
"Scaramucci is the personification of Trump's deep brain."
preview | full record— Parker, Kathleen
Date: August 24, 2017
"Whatever we choose as option A, there is always a chorus, inside our own minds and outside of it, contending it would have been better if we had just gone with option B."
preview | full record— Filipovic, Jill (b. 1983)
Date: September 2017
"Then, as though a light bulb had clicked on in her brain, she continued: 'Look at feminism. It started as a fringe movement. Now it's mainstream, left and right.'"
preview | full record— Seward Darby
Date: Feb. 1, 2023
"Everyone has the capacity to overthink — but a sign of trouble is if your thoughts become so persistent that they're like 'a car without brakes,' he said."
preview | full record— Hannah Seo