The New Republic: Media Matters Seeks New Identity in Post-Clinton World
Danny JohnstonDecember 20, 2016 Clio Chang and Alex Shephard write in The New Republic about the organizational shake-up and shift in focus at the leftwing media watchdog Media Matters for America. The...
View ArticleSarah Huckabee Sanders Is Worse Than Sean Spicer
<p>Yes, the press secretary is better at her job. But that is bad news for the rest of us.</p> <p>The face of the White House press operation has already undergone several iterations,...
View ArticleHamilton Fish of the New Republic Goes on Leave After Women's Complaints...
Hamilton Fish, the president and publisher of The New Republic, is taking a leave of absence pending an investigation into complaints by female employees at the magazine, according to a letter sent to...
View ArticleCharles Krauthammer: U.S. Heading Down Conspiracy Rabbit Hole (2017)
The other storyline is simply fantastical. Congressional Republicans have uniformly run away from Trump's Obama-wiretap accusation. Clapper denies it. FBI Director James Comey denies it. Not a single...
View ArticleClimate doomed without Brazil
Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right nationalist who on Sunday was elected Brazil’s new president, has been called the “Brazilian Trump.” But he’s more extreme than that. His rhetoric is more explicitly...
View ArticleA Famous Science Fiction Writer's Descent Into Libertarian Madness...
By JEET HEER June 8, 2014 The science-fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein once described himself as “a preacher with no church.” More accurately, he was a preacher with too many churches. Rare among the...
View ArticleTexas Republicans bracing for a Blue Wave in 2020. Yes, Texas
When Beto O’Rourke proclaimed, during the second round of Democratic presidential debates, that “there’s a new battleground state, Texas, and it has 38 Electoral College votes,” eyes rolled in unison...
View ArticleEx-Mattis aide evades answering if he’s anonymous author of anti-Trump...
Former Pentagon aide Guy Snodgrass would neither confirm nor deny Monday that he is the anonymous administration official who wrote "A Warning" during an evasive appearance on Fox News amid speculation...
View ArticleA Dead Man Won the Last Democratic Presidential Debate
It’s no exaggeration to say that American politics has operated in Herbert Croly’s and FDR’s shadow ever since the Great Depression—nearly a century. What’s striking about this election cycle’s...
View ArticleThis Is How Trump Will Try to Take Down Kamala Harris
Are the Democrats ready for grotesque attacks about the senator’s ex-boyfriend Willie Brown?
View ArticleFreak Out as Conservatives Exit Public Schools, Abandon Reform
The totalitarian-minded education establishment and its extreme left-wing allies are starting to freak out as conservatives abandon futile efforts to “reform” government schools in favor of a...
View ArticleThe Next GOP President Will Replace Civil Servants With Political Hacks,...
In October 2020, President Donald Trump signed an executive order creating a new class of civil servant that would no longer enjoy civil service protections from firing. The stated reason was to remove...
View ArticleLiz Cheney’s Loss Is a Defeat for Conservatism. (Barf)
Wyoming is a very conservative state. Forty-six percent of its adults self-identify as conservative, as opposed to moderate or liberal; only Mississippi claims a higher percentage. But in sending...
View ArticleHow the Invisible Army of Abortion Rights Voters Can Crush...
The right’s culture-war excesses have suddenly put Democrats on the front foot going into the midterm elections. Is an unseen army of women and young voters about to rescue the Democrats? It’s risky to...
View ArticleIf DeSantis Wins the Nomination, Trump Will Endorse Him (hurl)
Former Trump Justice Department head William Barr, in the course of reiterating his strong preference that his party nominate a less deranged presidential candidate next time, expressed a fear that has...
View ArticleThere Is No Democrat’s Case for Ron DeSantis
The case against Ron DeSantis from a Democrat’s perspective is straightforward and uncomplicated. For one thing, he’s a Republican. And not just any Republican: DeSantis has been one of the most odious...
View ArticleThe Golden Age of American Jews Is Ending
Stacey Zolt Hara was in her office in downtown San Francisco when a text from her 16-year-old daughter arrived: “I’m scared,” she wrote. Her classmates at Berkeley High School were preparing to leave...
View ArticleLara Trump at the RNC: One Step Closer to Hereditary Dictatorship
The function of the RNC changes again if Trump becomes president. If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, weaponizes government agencies, and becomes a dictator on “Day One,” the RNC is likely to become...
View ArticleMAGA Is Enjoying This Ronna McDaniel Mess
NBC News’s recent hiring of Ronna McDaniel, the former chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, has baffled Democrats, journalists, and pretty much all of MSNBC’s star anchors. But to those who...
View ArticleThe Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco...
<p>To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take control of City Hall, you must listen to Balaji Srinivasan. Before you do, steel yourself...
View ArticleWashington Post Purge Proves Media is a Leftist Cartel
Who really owns the paper? I’ve seen this before, but never at such a high-profile level. Journalists, including Bari Weiss, were squeezed out at the New York Times and targeted by campaigns...
View ArticleSept 2, 2006 is when fake "historian" Ilan Pappe invented the...
September 2006:On September 2, 2006, Ilan Pappe - fake "historian"[1], promoted the false "genocide" label-libel.[2] July 2014:Francesca Albanese, as she promoted an Anti-Semitic trope (July 31)[3], 6...
View ArticleSteve Bannon Reveals First Agencies on Trump’s Chopping Block
Steve Bannon told us he was feeling “empowered” after his release from prison last week. It’s quite obvious he means it. Hours after Donald Trump’s victory, the former Trump campaign official and...
View ArticleTrump Attorney General Hopeful Vows to Drag Bodies Through the Street
Potential Trump AG Mike Davis made a horrifyingly violent threat to take revenge. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/POOL ============================================================== Potential Trump cabinet...
View ArticleThe Counterattack Isn't Coming
They can’t fight back, because they don’t know what happened, they don’t know what’s happening, and they don’t know what will happen. One mildly interesting counterexample at the end, but wait for it....
View Article