Susan Says: Finally!
Susan Says with Susan Silver
Former President Obama speaks out against the authoritarian antics of the Trump administration. Plus: A recap of the No Kings demonstrations across the country and other news items this week.
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Susan Says: Getting Even
Susan Says with Susan Silver
Susan reviews How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir by Molly Jong-Fast, a book that the author mostly spends complaining about her mother, feminist icon Erica Jong.
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Susan Says: Pee-wee Herman and P. Diddy
Susan Says with Susan Silver
Susan reviews the HBO documentaries Pee-wee as Himself and The Fall of Diddy.
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Susan Says: Revisiting The Apprentice
Susan Says with Susan Silver
Susan takes another look at The Apprentice (2024), the Oscar-nominated biography of Trump starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong that gives us a good idea of how we got to where we are today. She also discusses Trump's disastrous meeting with South African president Cyril Ramaphosa earlier this week, as well as the fatal shooting of the two Israeli Museum staffers in Washington, D.C.
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Susan Says: Black Box Diaries
Susan Says with Susan Silver
Susan reviews Black Box Diaries (2024), the Academy Award-nominated documentary directed by Shiori Ito that depicts Ito's investigation into her own sexual assault case in 2017 while also shedding light into other accounts of sexual violence against women in Japan.
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Susan Says: Bye-Bye, Broadway
Susan Says with Susan Silver
Susan discusses some of this year's Tony Award nominations. She also laments over why she can never see a play anymore because high ticket prices today are outlandishly high.
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Susan Says: The Holocaust, 80 Years On
Susan Says with Susan Silver
Susan reviews The Holocaust: 80 Years On, the brilliant documentary by historian Simon Schama that is now available for viewing on demand on both PBS Passport and Amazon Prime.
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Susan Says: Maybe... Just Maybe
Susan Says with Susan Silver
Susan discusses the ruling of a Federal Court judge earlier week that "probable cause exists" to hold the Trump Administration in criminal contempt with regard to the mistaken deportation of Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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Susan Says: Bad Day
Susan Says with Susan Silver
Susan reviews the new Broadway production of The Picture of Dorian Gray, starring Sarah Snook (Succession). She also recounts the comedy of errors that plagued her trip to and from the theatre. All told, it was one of those days where Susan wished that she had never gotten out of bed.
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Susan Says: Oh, Come On!
Susan Says with Susan Silver
Susan discusses the Signalgate security breach scandal that has dominated the headlines this week, including the revelation that Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was inadvertently added to a group chat among senior White House officials that discussed plans for a strike against the Houthi group in Yemen.
info_outlineSusan discusses the ruling of a Federal Court judge earlier week that "probable cause exists" to hold the Trump Administration in criminal contempt with regard to the mistaken deportation of Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia.