Michael Wolff

Who likes the president?

Rich Democrats aren't coughing up anymore, the Times reports. The Goldman Sachs crowd has dropped him cold.

His inside circle can't seem to get out of the White House fast enough.

Approval ratings suck.

Other Democratic politicians don't want him on the campaign trail.

Black...

In the UK, there are the Miliband brothers, David and Ed.

Both brothers--who, by all reports, have been particularly close--held senior positions in the last Labour government. After the defeat of Gordon Brown, and his resignation as party leader, each Miliband brother decided he ought to be leader. David, at...

I am waiting for Ken Jautz to take me to lunch. Jautz is the new head of CNN. I helped get him his job. I wrote a column in the August issue of Vanity Fair asking why his predecessor, Jon Klein, who had seen CNN's ratings fall, still had...

I am waiting for Ken Jautz to take me to lunch. Jautz is the new head of CNN. I helped get him his job. I wrote a column in the August issue of Vanity Fair asking why his predecessor, Jon Klein, who had seen CNN's ratings fall, still had...

I missed the story about Warren Beatty's 18-year-old daughter planning to have a sex-change operation. Beatty's wife, Annette Bening, apparently canceled many of her appearances related to the movie The Kids Are All Right when it opened this summer because of her own family issues. Bening is said to be...

The biggest fight in politics is between the norm and something else.

There's official, socialized, dress-for-success, acceptable manners, know-all-the-right-people stuff, and then there's the other -- the uncouth.

There's Andrew Cuomo and then there's Carl Paladino.

The latter is a rude, nasty, semi-literate seeming buffoon. The former has, at...

A British banker once described for me what happened when Rupert Murdoch decided to make then-31-year-old son James the CEO of BSkyB, the UK satellite television company managed by News Corp. but in which it holds only a minority stake. (News Corp. is now trying to buy all of...

Luck, power, sheer fortitude and a brilliant network of partisans and flunkies are the elements that protect the rich and powerful from being brought down by the large and small crimes that have made them rich and powerful, or by the ironies and poetic justice that inevitably level them, too....

The conventional wisdom of this year's politics has been that the wealthy, rather en masse, were going to buy their place in Congress and in state houses around the country. This is the Michael Bloomberg effect.

But the poor and shiftless are doing very well, too. Christine...

"Every leading Delaware Republican knows that Christine O'Donnell is way out of the mainstream," is how her Democratic opponent, Chris Coons, happily analyzed the Senate primary victory of the Tea Party-supported, and anti-masturbation, candidate O'Donnell.

Well, that's the question: What's the mainstream?

It does seem that...

I'm sorry, as you might have noticed, I just can't get enough of the U.K.-Murdoch phone hacking story.

For one thing, Rupert Murdoch is as up against it as he ever has been, save for the moment in the early 1990s when he almost went broke. For...

Even just a few weeks ago, who would have doubted the outcome of a competition between Rupert Murdoch and the New York Times?

The Times' many-months investigation of illegal phone hacking by Murdoch reporters in Britain is a reminder that while everybody is accustomed to quaking before Murdoch's bullying power,...

The Brits are terribly confused.

The scandal that they thought had run out of gas is suddenly, as though by a deus ex machina, back full-steam. And yet it is the same scandal, with relatively few new details, being covered by the same news outlets. Nothing on the...

"You don't get it," a member of News Corporation's inner circle in London told me last night, about the phone hacking scandal. "If there was a conspiracy in the company, the conspiracy was to keep Rupert from knowing."

That is called the circle-the-wagons defense. That's called everybody-else-is-expendable. That's called...

Steven Rattner, the onetime New York Times reporter, former investment banker, would-be private equity media mogul, Hillary Clinton mega-fundraiser, and Treasury secretary-in-waiting, who became the stoic-but-obviously-disappointed Obama administration almost-car Tsar, and who is now being investigated by the SEC and the New York state attorney general for a kickback scheme...

Don Van Natta Jr., the lead reporter on the New York Times' Sunday Magazine story about the phone hacking scandal that's engulfed some of Rupert Murdoch's newspapers in London, is a Times enforcer. When Judy Miller, the Times reporter, became a central player in the Valerie Plame scandal and...

How many nutters will have the opportunity to come to Washington after November?

Will they be so few as to be merely eccentrics, or so many as to be the new normal?

There is a fine and peculiar balance here between an establishment which regards tea party-sponsored candidates as ignorant...

It's been the Neocons who have been, through a constant refinement of the goals and measures, suggesting that we've won the seven-year war in Iraq. Now, only slightly more judiciously, the anti-war president and his ever-voluble vice president are suggesting this, too.

Well, people will say anything if it...

Nobody of a more or less liberal cast knows what to do about Glenn Beck.

We don't know what he's saying. What he means. What he wants. Or really who he is.

Rupert Murdoch, who pays him, doesn't know either. Those exact questions above have worried him and he's...

The MacTaggart lecture is one of the high points of the British media calendar. The climax of the Edinburgh International Television Festival, held each year as an adjunct to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and organized and sponsored by the Guardian, the MacTaggart is a purposeful dispensing of ritual and propriety....