INSIDE MY NEW NOVEL “RIDE THE TYGER” 

By David Perlstein | November 7, 2025

Reading a novel is easy. Harder: writing my tenth novel, “Ride the Tyger: The Lost, Unauthorized Oral Biography of Madison Hadder.” I started with a question: What leads someone to embrace the political far right and ignore reality? Witness Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, (R., Georgia) with “Jewish space lasers” and Trump former counselor Kellyanne Conway’s…

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DEATH, POLITICS AND GUILT

By David Perlstein | June 26, 2020

I have bad news, good news and more bad news. Also an apology. The initial bad news: The COVID-19 death toll of Americans stands at 124,000. The good news: Last Sunday, American daily deaths dropped to 275. More bad news: Daily deaths rose to 833 on Tuesday and 766 Wednesday. Yesterday, Johns Hopkins University charted…

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MY ALTERNATIVE FACTS

By David Perlstein | January 27, 2017

What’s all the fuss about President Trump calling his inauguration crowd the largest ever? And why bother with photos comparing Mr. Trump’s crowd with those of former president Barack Obama? Last Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” presidential counselor Kelleyanne Conway set us all straight. There are alternative facts. I find that comforting. Alternative facts…

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