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The Insider Is Back, Sassier than Ever!
The 10 Movies that Mattered Most in 2025
By Laurence Lerman / New York City
Dec 19, 2025
A Schmaltzy Story About Why I Love My Autistic Son Nate
By Amy Lennard Goehner / Hudson, N.Y.
Dec 19, 2025
Protect Your Pet from These Six Holiday Dangers
By Pussy Galore
Dec 19, 2025
Why 2025 Will Remain Both My Worst and Best Year Ever
By Charlie Haycook / Boston, Mass.
Dec 19, 2025
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle to Shrink Your Holiday Spending!
By Victoria Rolfe / Red Hook, N.Y.
Dec 19, 2025
Is This the Man Who Can Bring Down Trump?
By John Woodford / Ann Arbor, Mich.
Dec 19, 2025
December
A Poem by Siena Sachs Beck / New York City
Dec 19, 2025
What’s Going to Happen to All My Stuff?
By Dr. Nancy Fishman / Morgan Hill, Calif.
Dec 19, 2025
Dictator in a Bottle
By Jessie Seigel / Washington, D.C.
Dec 19, 2025
Thank Your Lucky Stars
By Bonnie Fishman / San Francisco Bay Area
Dec 19, 2025
Trump’s Empire of Hubris and Thuggery
By Prof. Jeffrey Sachs | Common Dreams
Dec 19, 2025
Trump Enraged After Gold Paint Peels Off FIFA Peace Prize
By Andy Borowitz / The Borowitz Report
Dec 19, 2025
The Week
My Pandemic Tech Tale
By Matt Nadelson / New York City
Jul 26, 2023
A Fond Farewell From The Beck Sisters
Sienna, Willa and Olive Beck / New York City
Jul 24, 2023
A Few Laughs, and Now a Few Tears
By Steve Cash / Detroit
Jul 24, 2023
Soul Purpose
By Bonnie Fishman / San Francisco Bay Area
Jul 24, 2023
Love, Loss and the Art of Saying Goodbye
By Dr. Nancy Fishman / Morgan Hill, Calif.
Jul 24, 2023
Reel Streaming No. 131: The World is Changed
By Laurence Lerman / New York City
Jul 24, 2023
An Insider Love Letter
By Marieke Slovin Lewis / Seattle
Jul 24, 2023
The Insider as Therapist
A Poem by Dr. Barry Lubetkin / New York City
Jul 24, 2023
Happy Trails to You, Until We Meet Again
By Jeffrey Markowitz / Detroit
Jul 24, 2023
Sayonara, It’s Been Great!
By Judi Markowitz / Detroit
Jul 24, 2023
We May Be Done With Covid, but Covid Is Not Done With Us
By Fred Plotkin / New York
Jul 24, 2023
Thank Goodness for Covid
By Alan Resnick / Detroit
Jul 24, 2023
Right at Home: Closing Thoughts From Our Domestic Engineer!
By Victoria Rolfe / Red Hook, N.Y.
Jul 24, 2023
Life Rekindled During a Pandemic
By John Rolfe / Red Hook, N.Y.
Jul 24, 2023
Greetings to Fellow Insiders!
By Jeffrey Sachs / Beijing
Jul 24, 2023
Aisle Seat: That's All, Folks!
By Naomi Serviss / New York City
Jul 24, 2023
Washington Will Keep Whispering!
By Jessie Seigel / Washington, D.C.
Jul 24, 2023
The Only Reason To Be Sorry the Pandemic Ended
By Lydia Hope Wilen / New York City
Jul 24, 2023
Game Over!
By John Woodford / Ann Arbor, Mich.
Jul 23, 2023
Fred Plotkin on Fridays
Daniel Serafin: How to Stage “Carmen” in a Quarry
Fred Plotkin, a pleasure activist and passionate Italy and culinary expert, speaks each Friday with leading people in the arts
Jul 17, 2023
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Questions surrounding the origins of COVID-19 remain unanswered
By Jeffrey D. Sachs and Neil L. Harrison from The Boston Globe
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May 31, 2022
Pilfered from the Internet
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Apr 27, 2021
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
This week we hear from Insiders Anita Saesing/Scottsdale Az. and Susie Silverman/Omaha Neb.
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Feb 4, 2021
Andy Borowitz
Unskilled Florida Man Regrets Missing Out on Being Enslaved
The Borowitz Report from NewYorker.com
Jul 25, 2023
In the Mix
A Life to be Admired
By Judi Markowitz / Huntington Woods, Mich.
Dec 1, 2025
The Jessie Awards for Uncompromising, No BS Journalism
By Jessie Seigel / Washington, D.C.
Dec 1, 2025
Let’s Talk: When to Depend on Depends
By Dr. Nancy Fishman / Morgan Hill, Calif.
Dec 1, 2025
Filmmaker Chloé Zhao Finds the Human Pulse in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
By Laurence Lerman / New York City
Dec 1, 2025
Dec 1, 2025
Trump Claims MRI on His Brain Found Nothing
By Andy Borowitz / The Borowitz Report
Dec 1, 2025
Food or Fido: The Impossible Choice Shutdown Victims Face
By Pussy Galore
Nov 13, 2025
Marty’s Ultimate Party
By Judi Markowitz / Huntington Woods, Mich.
Nov 13, 2025
The Jessie Awards to Democrats with Balls, er, Spines
By Jessie Seigel / Washington, D.C.
Nov 13, 2025
At Wit’s End: My Life in Show Biz–Woe Biz
By Lydia Hope Wilen / New York City
Nov 13, 2025
Let’s Talk: Living A Double Life
By Dr. Nancy Fishman / Morgan Hill, Calif.
Nov 13, 2025
Clooney’s Best Role in Years—and Baumbach’s Boldest Film Yet
By Laurence Lerman / New York City
Nov 13, 2025
Recipes for Disaster
Recipes for Disaster: Sweeten Up Your Pandemic Breakfast
By Debra Turner
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Feb 11, 2021
Aggravation is a Full-Time Job
Mum Comes Home To Roost at Last (Sort of)
By John Rolfe
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Oct 22, 2020
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