Palin Boosts Glenn Beck With Thousands of Facebook Friends
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin went Glenn Beck one better after he asked viewers to invite a friend to watch his popular show on Fox cable TV: She posted a Facebook message urging all of her friends to...
View ArticleHot Seat - Fire Glenn Beck? (FReep a poll)
FReep a poll in support of Glenn Beck. Currently, there are 48,800 votes with 75% in support of Beck.
View ArticleJournoList: 75 Names Confirmed (with news organizations)
The following 75 names are confirmed members of the now-defunct JournoList listserv. 1. Ezra Klein - Washington Post, Newsweek, The American Prospect 2. Dave Weigel - Washington Post, MSNBC, The...
View ArticleSyria and its Progressive Friends
Its just about a week since Russia and China, in a rare joint action, vetoed a European-sponsored resolution that strongly condemns the continued grave and systematic human rights violations by...
View ArticleHughes Drops Jews
The New Republic has quietly dropped at least five prominent Jewish writers from its masthead in a move that may signal the publications continued drift away from a staunchly pro-Israel standpoint....
View ArticleStanley Kauffmann, Erudite Film Critic, Dies at 97
Stanley Kauffmann, whose literate, tightly constructed movie reviews appeared in The New Republic for more than half a century and set a standard for critical ease and erudition, died on Wednesday in...
View ArticleIran Is Not Our Friend
On the foreign policy front .â.â. I find myself â¨wondering why we cannot regard another country, in this case Iran, â¨as just that, as one more country which we would regard as neither friend...
View Article'Close Observers of History' Hate Ollie North
Editor's note: This column was co-authored by Tim Graham. For its second season, the creators of the FX series "The Americans" have chosen a new source for insight into the Cold War during the Reagan...
View ArticleClinton says Obama on firm ground on immigration
Former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday noted that previous U.S. presidents have issued some type of executive order on immigration, suggesting his Democratic successor was on pretty firm legal...
View ArticleNew Republic mass resignations: Any need for ‘restructuring’ now?
In a memo to staff yesterday announcing a masthead shake-up, New Republic chief executive Guy Vidra wrote that a reduction in the frequency of the 100-year-old magazine would require a staff...
View ArticleLiberalism has one job...
If Ezra Klein isn't being completely ridiculous he is being totally revealing (in a shoot-yourself-in-the-foot kind of way) about what and how liberals think.Today he opined on the demise of The New...
View Article‘Cultural Disconnect’ Led to New Republic Resignations (Libs Hit...
Roughly two dozen staffers and contributing editors at The New Republic resigned on Friday as the result of what one of them described as an ugly cultural clash between a traditional journalistic...
View ArticleNew Republic Editor Decides Political Hack as Ebola Czar Is OK
One has to give The New Republic editor Jonathan Cohn some credit. At least he was beset with some brief soul searching over the fact that the new Ebola Czar is a political hack with no medical...
View ArticleA Eulogy for The New Republic
Not long after he purchased The New Republic, Chris Hughes had lunch with me, as he was doing with quite a few journalists around Washington. At one point, he asked me who the best editor had been...
View ArticleTNR veterans protest Hughes' 'destruction' (The New Republic)
Three former editors of The New Republic -- Hendrik Hertzberg, Peter Beinart and Andrew Sullivan -- have joined more than a dozen of their fellow TNR veterans in protesting the "destruction" of the...
View ArticleDaily Beast: MSM Fawned Over New Republic Owner Before Turning on Him
The normally liberal Daily Beast published an article about The New Republic owner Chris Hughes that is chock full of criticism of the Facebook multi-millionaire However, what is most surprising is...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge, America’s Worst Gay...
Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge have always been entitled brats. And now the media finally noticed. How swiftly things change. In just the past two months, one half of this pair managed to...
View ArticleThe Future of the New Republic and Us
WASHINGTON -- I should like to pose a question to the overnight press baron Chris Hughes, who owns the New Republic that he has rendered moribund with astounding speed and no class at all. My question...
View ArticleRachel Dolezal Embodies White America’s Fears
Who are we allowed to become? Children growing up today are likely to believe they can be anyone they want to be, and parents and teachers have grown fond of the phrase Whatever you are, be a good...
View ArticleNew Republic: The Hypermasculine Violence of Omar Mateen and Brock Turner
America woke up this weekend to the news of the deadliest civilian mass shooting in the nations history. The senseless tragedy will undoubtedly evoke anger, sadness and helplessness. In the meantime,...
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