Thanks to RFK Jr., Steve Bannon, and others, autism is part of the political news cycle. Here’s what one autistic Beltway journalist has to say about it.

GOP leaders brazenly skirted a state Supreme Court ruling with a law shielding the money from public scrutiny. Many other states are doing likewise. Are we repeating the tobacco settlement debacle?

There’s an appalling double standard in how the political press covers the Democrats and Republicans today.

Scripted remarks won’t cut it anymore. The president needs to open wide up to the press, verbal gaffes be damned.

RFK Jr., Glenn Greenwald, and other Putin apologists are making disingenuous, pseudo-populist arguments against U.S. support for Ukraine.

The wayward Kennedy, who is challenging Biden for the Democratic nomination, is proving to be a very useful idiot for MAGA demagogues like Steve Bannon and Roger Stone.

U.S. media has largely ignored a shipwreck with hundreds of migrant deaths but has focused intently on a missing submersible full of rich people.

It is illegal in some states for transgender people to make public presentations that would be perfectly legal for cisgender people.

The news network faces bigger issues than its incompetent former boss.

There are three lessons CNN could take from this disaster, and the network isn’t likely to pick the right one.

The South Carolina representative talks moderation but votes with the crazies.

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Chris Licht’s master plan has already run aground—as have the news channel’s ratings.

In magisterial books and sharp essays—many of them for The New Republic—Steel, who died recently at 92, became one of the most vital foreign policy voices of his age.

The Twitter owner’s decision to capitulate to Turkish autocrat Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is shameful.

CNN’s shameful town hall was a gift to Trump. Enough is enough.

Tucker has a new show—on Twitter. Fox News is shedding its audience. Without one another, the struggle is real.

Kaitlan Collins and the network’s journalists tried their best. But the execs, from Chris Licht on down, brought total shame on themselves, journalism, and America.

Conservatives are up in arms that the high court has become embroiled in a legitimacy crisis.

Problematic polls and New York Times op-eds are giving Biden supporters a heart attack. But the 2024 outlook isn’t nearly as gloomy as it seems right now.