by Gene Lyons A few months ago, I ran into a recently retired judge, a former prosecutor and friendly acquaintance, at the grocery store. I asked him […]
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What if Fox News viewers watch CNN?
by Matthew Yglesias The establishment of Fox News in the late 1990s forever changed both media and politics in America, transforming the formerly staid world of television […]
Attacking the rich means attacking the country
by Jay Ambrose Go after the hated rich, make up phony stories, hit them hard with taxes on their wealth, listen to the applause, figure on Democrats […]
Tucker Carlson is the last person qualified to assess Biden’s mental fitness
by Kevin McDermott We’re so accustomed to Tucker Carlson saying crazy stuff that his declaration last week that President Joe Biden should be removed from office under […]
America looks for fresh programming
by David M. Shribman Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams did it. So did Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison. Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, too. […]
Russian cyberattacks a threat — so is Americans’ fear of shortages
by Sheldon H. Jacobson Reports of Russian cyberattacks against our domestic infrastructure have raised alarms and calls for heightened vigilance across the United States’ public and private […]
CBS News giving Mulvaney a paid gig is an act of journalistic malpractice
by Kurt Bardella From mid-December 2018 through early March 2020, Mick Mulvaney, a former member of Congress from South Carolina, served as President Donald Trump’s acting chief […]
Why I’ve become an Austrian citizen
by Nicholas Goldberg My mother and grandmother fled Vienna in September 1938. I don’t know whether they left by car or by train or whether it was […]
SCOTUS has a legitimacy crisis — so does America
by Will Bunch Earlier this month, a speech warning about the dangers of politicizing the U.S. Supreme Court was delivered in Utah by an authoritative, insider source, […]
Ivermectin is useless against COVID
by Michael Hiltzik The final results are in, and they’re incontrovertible: Ivermectin, that nostrum assiduously promoted by anti-vaccine advocates and conspiracy-mongers, is utterly useless against COVID-19. That’s […]