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July 3, 2023
Walter Shapiro
Biden Can’t Hide From the Media Forever
Scripted remarks won’t cut it anymore. The president needs to open wide up to the press, verbal gaffes be damned.
June 27, 2023
Alaric DeArment
The Con Artists Who Blame Ukraine Aid for America’s Social Problems
RFK Jr., Glenn Greenwald, and other Putin apologists are making disingenuous, pseudo-populist arguments against U.S. support for Ukraine.
June 26, 2023
Walter Shapiro
Here’s a Conspiracy Theory: RFK Jr. Is a Tool of Pro-Trump Agitators
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.
June 20, 2023
Alex Shephard
The Media Cares More About the
Titanic
Sub Than Drowned Migrants
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.
June 14, 2023
Brynn Tannehill
Trans People’s Free Speech Is Being Suppressed in America Right Now. Does Anyone Care?
It is illegal in some states for transgender people to make public presentations that would be perfectly legal for cisgender people.
June 8, 2023
Alex Shephard
CNN’s Problems Go Way Beyond Chris Licht
The news network faces bigger issues than its incompetent former boss.
June 7, 2023
Michael Tomasky
The Fix CNN Needs Is Clear. Do the Suits Have the Guts to Do It?
There are three lessons CNN could take from this disaster, and the network isn’t likely to pick the right one.
June 2, 2023
Alex Shephard
Nancy Mace Is Just Another Republican
The South Carolina representative talks moderation but votes with the crazies.
June 1, 2023
Daniel Strauss
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Grace Segers
Who Wants to Crown Ron DeSantis?
PLUS: debt ceiling fatigue and Chris Christie chronicles
May 25, 2023
Alex Shephard
CNN Is Tanking After Its Unforgivable Trump Town Hall
Chris Licht’s master plan has already run aground—as have the news channel’s ratings.
May 18, 2023
Eric Alterman
Ronald Steel: A Great Historian Who Punctured the Pious
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.
May 15, 2023
Alex Shephard
Elon Musk Doesn’t Care About Free Speech
The Twitter owner’s decision to capitulate to Turkish autocrat Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is shameful.
May 15, 2023
Walter Shapiro
Abolish Live TV Audiences in the 2024 Presidential Race
CNN’s shameful town hall was a gift to Trump. Enough is enough.
May 11, 2023
Alex Shephard
Fox News and Tucker Carlson Are Both Losing
Tucker has a new show—on Twitter. Fox News is shedding its audience. Without one another, the struggle is real.
May 11, 2023
Michael Tomasky
Shame on CNN for That Naked, Cynical Play for Fox Viewers
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.
May 10, 2023
Walter Shapiro
Democrats, Don’t Panic! Seriously, Don’t.
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.
May 10, 2023
Matt Ford
The Right’s Stupefying Defense of the Supreme Court
Conservatives are up in arms that the high court has become embroiled in a legitimacy crisis.
May 5, 2023
Michael Tomasky
Remember “Defund the Police”? Well, Guess Who’s Actually Proposing Doing It.
The House Republican’s debt ceiling bill has several nasty surprises for anyone who “backs the blue.”
May 5, 2023
Joanna Rothkopf
Yes, You Should Care About This Writers’ Strike, and Here’s Why
Hollywood writers are striking in part to preserve an endangered profession. The studios’ response? Quit whining.
May 5, 2023
Ana Marie Cox
Tucker Carlson Has Won the Cancel Culture Lottery
The banished host’s gravy train will likely keep on rolling—and he’ll continue to provide Fox News with fodder.
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