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James Fallows
The Reporter Who Made Us Love Politics—or Tried
Walter Shapiro’s journalism was bighearted, clear-eyed, and guided by a deep reverence for the whole operating-level panorama of American democracy.
July 23, 2024
July 23, 2024
Matthew Cooper
The Irrepressible Walter Shapiro
A reporter who was cutting without being snarky, and sincere without being corny, my late friend pulled off a balancing act for 50 years that made him one of the great political journalists of our time.
July 11, 2024
Pablo Manríquez
Is Biden’s Fitness a Beltway “Bubble” Priority?
Some Democratic senators’ constituents have other priorities.
July 10, 2024
Susan Milligan
Booting Biden Would Create an Even Bigger Crisis for Democrats
Replacing the president now, even with Kamala Harris, would create a whole new set of problems for beating Trump.
July 9, 2024
Thom Hartmann
How the Real Mainstream Media Bias Favors Donald Trump
It’s not liberal vs. conservative. It’s called “inversion of expectation,” and it poisons coverage every single day.
July 2, 2024
Parker Molloy
Why Does the Media Insist on Helping Steve Bannon Act the Martyr?
NBC and ABC snagged pre-prison interviews with the far-right globalist. But to what end? They became tools in his propaganda machine.
June 26, 2024
Parker Molloy
Why Is Snopes.com Helping Trump Clean Up “Very Fine People”?
The generally valuable debunker of right-wing lies made a very odd ruling recently that may have ramifications for the election.
June 24, 2024
Michael Tomasky
Team Biden’s Debate Assignment: Don’t Let Trump Win the Spin
No matter what happens, the right is going to lie about Thursday’s debate. Biden’s camp better be ready to push back aggressively.
June 13, 2024
Thom Hartmann
Why Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Want Women to Stay Barefoot and Pregnant
The right says otherwise, and the media goes along, but history proves over and over that population decline is a good thing.
June 11, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
U.S. Journalism Is Turning to an Unlikely Savior. Will It Work?
As major outlets hire conservative British media executives to inject fresh perspectives—and hopefully cash—into a struggling industry, journalists worry it’s a mistake.
June 8, 2024
Alex Shephard
Joe Biden Needs to Stop Whining About the Media
The administration’s constant complaining about press coverage is unhelpful and unbecoming.
May 30, 2024
Ken Silverstein
Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat
Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and journalists. We got their messages.
May 13, 2024
Michael Tomasky
How on Earth Is Donald Trump Getting Credit for Joe Biden’s Economy?
Do you have any idea how many jobs have been created under Biden in swing states? Don’t worry, nobody does. But they’d better by November 5.
May 9, 2024
Raina Lipsitz
The Anti-Woke Grifters Get Their Tithe
A festival for “dangerous” ideas in Brooklyn was instead an unprovocative and expensive congregation of elite “wrongthinkers” and their earnest followers.
May 3, 2024
Alex Shephard
Biden’s Very Trumpian Response to the Peaceful Student Protests
He’s explicitly demonizing nonviolent demonstrators and implicitly supporting the disproportionate and violent police response.
May 1, 2024
Alex Shephard
Why Biden Needs
The New York Times
He’s angry about its coverage of his age, but sitting down for a lengthy interview with the paper of record could do the struggling president a lot of good.
May 1, 2024
Matt Ford
Can Copyright Law Save Journalism From A.I.?
A group of newspapers is suing OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of effectively stealing—and profiting from—journalists’ work. This could well be an existential legal fight.
April 25, 2024
Aubtin Heydari
The Grotesque Slander of Comparing Gaza Protesters to Neo-Nazis
I stood against the fascists who descended on Charlottesville—and nearly paid with my life. Those who would compare the students raising their voices against war and bloodshed to those violent fiends are a disgrace.
April 16, 2024
Ana Marie Cox
My Night Among Bari Weiss’s Free Speech Warriors
At The Free Press’s Texas-size immigration debate, nothing was at stake and everybody won.
April 8, 2024
Michael Tomasky
The Right Is About to Try to Turn Trump Into an Abortion Moderate
Republicans and their media allies are about to reach into an old bag of tricks to try to tone down the former president’s extremism.
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