Bret Stephens’s Worst Column Yet?
In Bret Stephens’s latest column for The New York Times, he asks the reader to believe two extraordinary things: that he has discovered a secret pool of voters who might hand a surprise win to Donald...
View ArticleThe Right and Wrong Way for Biden to Attack Trump’s Taxes
The bombshell New York Times reporting on Donald Trump’s taxes is perhaps too complex a subject for Joe Biden to use as an easy political attack. For all that led “Trump’s taxes” to become a sort of...
View ArticleWhat a Mess!
Pity the transcriptionists. From its very first minute, the first debate of the 2020 presidential election was off the rails. For 90 minutes, Donald Trump vomited a seemingly endless series of lies and...
View ArticleHe’s Lost Control
No one could have seen it coming: A debate with Donald Trump was a complete disaster. The first showdown between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden set a breathtaking new low for an...
View ArticleThe Desperation of Donald Trump
Believe it or not, there once was a time when high-minded thinkers believed that presidential debates would elevate the tenor and add substance to presidential campaigns.Needless to say, these 1960s...
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The Cozy Relationship Between Project Veritas and the Proud Boys
For Project Veritas, the 2020 Democratic primaries offered an embarrassment of riches. A historically large field meant plenty of targets against which James O’Keefe’s journalism-cosplay organization...
View ArticleIvanka Trump’s Starring Role in Her Father’s Financial Troubles
For four years, Donald Trump’s tax returns have been the white whale of political journalists and the most sought-after material of any presidency this side of Richard Nixon’s Watergate tapes....
View ArticleThe Right Is Blaming Chris Wallace for Trump’s Terrible Debate Performance
Who is to blame for Donald Trump’s disastrous performance in Tuesday’s presidential debate? The easy answer is the person who is to blame for most things: Trump himself. Both Trump’s supporters...
View ArticleTrump Never Answered the Debate’s Most Important Question
Joe Biden’s best answer during Tuesday’s debate was for a question that shouldn’t have to be posed. “How confident should we be that this will be a fair election, and what are you prepared to do over...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky Does Not Think the Planet Is Doomed (Yet)
This summer saw some of the worst wildfires in recorded history. Over 3.7 million acres of land burned in California alone, leading a UCLA climate scientist to declare, “We’ve broken almost every...
View ArticleAmerica’s Conspiracies of Profit
Over the summer, homegrown American conspiracism surged in tandem with the pandemic. On edge after months of lockdown, widespread infection and death, and a highly acrid political climate, people...
View ArticleWhen Your Covid Symptoms Outlast Your Insurance
María had only been in the United States for about a year when the pandemic hit. She had entered the country without documentation and settled in Brooklyn, finding some work under the table preparing...
View ArticleHow Was Rukmini Callimachi Fooled by a Fake Terrorist?
According to Rukmini Callimachi, the extremism correspondent for The New York Times who has earned wide praise for her work reporting on ISIS, her moment of journalistic epiphany came in 2013, in a...
View ArticleThere’s No Such Thing as Ethical Grocery Shopping
Of all the edible creatures in the sea, America’s favorite is the shrimp. We gorge upon their flesh to the tune of 4.4 pounds per person per year. Accordingly, the business of shrimp is oceanic: In...
View ArticleThe Real Legacy of a Demagogue
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a Spanish Civil War veteran from Florida named John Hovan enlisted in the Navy, serving for three and a half years before he received an honorable discharge. After...
View ArticleThe Anti-Filibuster Armies Are Mounting Up
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has, unsurprisingly, intensified conversations in Democratic circles about the structural obstacles that a Biden presidency would inevitably face. Whether or...
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The Real Deep State Is Trump
The specter of deep state conspiracies against President Trump has long been a key rhetorical and political weapon in the arsenal of the Trump White House. Trump and his loyal enablers have deployed...
View ArticleDemocrats Have a Chance to Hit Trump on Jobs
According to Friday’s official jobs report—the last one that the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release before November’s election—the economy added around 661,000 jobs in September. Since...
View ArticleOf Course Donald Trump Got Covid-19
Two days ago, standing on the debate stage with Joe Biden, President Trump repeatedly downplayed the severity of Covid-19. He blew past the fact that more than 200,000 Americans have died from the...
View ArticleThe President and His Country Club Pals Still Have the Best Defense Against...
Just a few days ago, Trump flashily procured a mask from his jacket pocket during his debate with Biden to indicate his openness to wearing one. “I put a mask on when I think I need it,” he said...
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