When Trump Met Putin

An Eyewitness Report of the Helsinki Summit

The evening before the Trump-Putin “summit” in Helsinki, I got on my white Finnish Jopo bike and went to see what was happening at the Hilton Kalastajatorppa in the seaside suburb of Munkkiniemi. It was extremely weird that Trump & Co. would be at my favorite hotel, just up the ...
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When Trump Met Putin

Modigliani in Helsinki

Trump’s Kingdom of Misrule

It’s wonderful to enter such a solid building, with windows already lit up yellow against the winter dusk. To get to Modigliani you climb two flights of a wide stone staircase, holding onto the curved wood railings. Finland -- wood and stone. They’ve even made a little Paris café up on ...
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