East Wing Magazine: One Year Later

Publication dedicated to exclusively covering America’s first ladies–past and present–celebrates first anniversary today.

“This is an astonishing moment.” 

That was the text I sent to a source the morning of Aug. 14, the day after former President Donald Trump survived an attempted assassination, as I gathered my thoughts about what I was about to write. 

At first, the news prompted a flashback to my fifth-grade classroom on the afternoon of March 30, 1981, when my teacher stood at her desk and nervously announced that then President Ronald Reagan had been shot. I paused that memory and set it aside. Then, I wondered: What will former First Lady Melania Trump do? What is our sitting First Lady Dr. Jill Biden thinking? What was former First Lady’s Nancy Reagan’s response? How do their actions impact history?

This forward and backward looking line of questioning reflects the mission of East Wing Magazine, a journalistic publication that covers America’s first ladies present and past and their impact on society. Since that historic moment about two weeks ago, the political landscape seismically shifted again a…