View image | gettyimages.com That’s Chris Davis of the Baltimore Orioles, hitting a home run in today’s game against the Chicago White Sox before an empty Camden Yards. The game was held as scheduled, but fans were barred from watching it because of fears that rioters would storm the stadium and massacre everyone inside, or […]
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Sheldon Adelson Will Not Be Ignored
View image | gettyimages.com Sheldon Adelson has never struck me as a brilliant guy, but I admit I don’t have much to go on in making that judgment. Maybe it’s the spectacularly ridiculous dyed-red combover that makes him seem like such a comical figure, but who knows. What we do know is that all-or almost […]
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Why Do We Worry So Much About Cable News When Its Audience Is So Small?
View image | gettyimages.com The Pew Research Center’s latest State of the News Media report is out, and as usual it has all kinds of interesting data about things like the slow-motion demise of the newspaper industry (an exaggeration, but only slightly) and the diminished state of network news. But for the moment I want […]
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Photo of the Day, Preparing for the Night Edition
View image | gettyimages.com Baltimore police preparing for more protests in the wake of Freddie Gray’s death.
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Finding Meaning In Campaign Coverage
View image | gettyimages.com I have a confession to make: When the presidential campaign begins, I not only feel some excitement, as you might expect from someone interested enough in politics to write about it every day, but I also get a feeling you might call relief. For the following 18 months, I know that […]
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Photo of the Day, Mourning in Baltimore Edition
View image | gettyimages.com The casket with the body of Freddie Gray is taken from a hearse at New Shiloh Baptist Church prior to the start of his funeral service, April 27, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. Gray, 25, was arrested for possessing a switch blade knife April 12 outside the Gilmor Homes housing project on […]
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Why Hillary Clinton Is Getting a Bum Rap On the Uranium Deal
View image | gettyimages.com I’ll give Peter Schweizer this: Not since the Swift Boat veterans has someone gotten as much press coverage for their critical book about a presidential candidate. And though his book, Clinton Cash, hasn’t come out yet, and it may well contain stories that really do point to malfeasance on Hillary Clinton’s […]
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Maybe Unity Is the Last Thing Republicans Need
View image | gettyimages.com It’s the season for pandering to the base, which is as good a time as any to ask whether the glorious, fascinating mess that is today’s Republican Party can ever unify enough to win back the White House-or whether unity is something they should even be after. Because it may well […]
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Photo of the Day, Departure Edition
View image | gettyimages.com Attorney General Eric Holder says goodbye to Justice Department employees on his last day on the job. Tonight on Fox: What crimes has Attorney General Loretta Lynch already committed, and what is she covering up?
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Ted Cruz Is So Done With the Senate
View image | gettyimages.com Ted Cruz was the only senator to miss the vote on Loretta Lynch’s confirmation as attorney general, despite his vociferous objections to her nomination, because he was on his way to a fundraiser-a circumstance that generated some predictable mockery. Yet as Philip Bump tells us, Cruz has actually missed lots of […]
