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June 16, 2021
Alex Shephard
A Trump Memoir Would Be a Huge Seller, but No Major Publisher Wants to Buy It
The big publishing houses routinely push out political books that are less than truthful, but the former president’s lies seem to be a bridge too far.
June 15, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Specter of Critical Race Theory Is Rotting Republicans’ Brains
Transforming the academic study of structural racism into a vague grab bag of villainy has been useful fodder for moral panic while the GOP figures out how to attack Joe Biden.
June 13, 2021
Alex Shephard
Republicans Seriously Think Trump Lost the Election Because of a Lab Leak Cover-Up That They Invented
Lindsey Graham and other conservatives are trying to turn the Covid controversy du jour into the new Russiagate.
June 10, 2021
Alex Shephard
“Populist” Conservatives Rush to the Defense of Megarich Tax Dodgers
For all the talk of the GOP’s new working-class focus, it’s as eager as ever to serve the interests of plutocrats at the expense of everyone else.
June 9, 2021
Alex Shephard
Brian Stelter on How the 2020 Election “Radicalized” Fox News
“The number of Fox staffers who said to me, ‘I miss Roger Ailes’ absolutely astonished me.”
June 8, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Party of Trump Is Trying to Get People Mad at Anthony Fauci Again
The latest attacks from the GOP betray its desperation to find something, anything, to attack Joe Biden with.
June 4, 2021
Alex Shephard
Trump’s War on the Press Isn’t Over Until Biden Ends It
The previous two administrations’ dogged pursuit of reporters’ records demands immediate reform.
June 3, 2021
Alex Shephard
Biden’s Infrastructure Week Is Turning Into a Joke, Too
The Trump era’s most infamous metaphor takes on a new meaning as “bipartisan” negotiations drag on.
June 1, 2021
Natalie Shure
You Don’t Have to Root for Melinda Gates
Rather than choose sides in this P.R. war of plutocrat divorcés, we should scrutinize whether billionaire philanthropy really works.
May 31, 2021
Alex Shephard
Republicans Fear Trump May Wreck Their Chances to Fulfill His Darkest Fantasies
Republicans are “fretting” about the former president’s political return. But they’re mostly worried about him undermining their ongoing anti-democratic efforts.
May 27, 2021
Alex Shephard
Amazon Devours MGM in the Latest Merger of the Content Armageddon
The e-commerce giant covets the Hollywood studio’s sweet, sweet cache of intellectual property.
May 26, 2021
Matt Ford
Can the Politics of Police Reform Survive the Crime Rates of Our Pandemic Year?
An impenetrable web of statistics is being used to deflect criticisms and reshape the media narrative around policing.
May 26, 2021
Alex Shephard
CNN Fired Rick Santorum and Forgave Chris Cuomo. Ethics Had Nothing to Do With It.
Good luck trying to figure out what the network’s journalistic standards are.
May 25, 2021
Osita Nwanevu
Bored Reporters in Washington Declare an End to the Biden Honeymoon
Beltway pundits, finally wise to the fact that the president’s agenda faces long odds, have decided that the narrative needs to be changed.
May 21, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Associated Press Gives in to Right-Wing Trolls
A bad-faith smear campaign over college activism cost a news associate her job.
May 18, 2021
Alex Shephard
Apple Cares More About Appeasing China Than It Does About Protecting Your Privacy
It turns out that the tech company with a commitment to civil liberties is really just committed to profits.
May 17, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Will Israel’s Bombing of the AP Expose the Fake Neutrality of the U.S. Media’s Coverage?
By hitting foreign media bureaus in Gaza, Israel has revealed something about its view of a free press—even if objectivity-obsessed reporters won’t believe it.
May 12, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Republican “Civil War” Is Actually Just the Trump GOP Against a Few Losers
Liz Cheney and Miles Taylor refuse to accept the obvious truth: They lost their battle for the soul of the party years ago.
May 5, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Media Still Doesn’t Know How to Cover the Big Lie
Four months after the Capitol riot, Republicans continue to push wild conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
April 30, 2021
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Jake Bittle
Why Is Greg Gutfeld Still on Television?
The steady rise of the longtime Fox News host is a reflection not of his comedic abilities, but the increasingly dark mood of conservative media.
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