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Posted inLaw and Justice
Samuel Alito’s Revealing Temper Tantrum
Let’s compare his behavior to Justice Barrett.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Drowned in the Stream
Hard-hitting filmmaker Amy Ziering on why journalistic documentaries are facing extinction
Posted inEconomic Policy
Pandemic Fraud Is Really, Truly Not a Big Deal
The media’s focus on waste misses key context, and ignores the stunning success of the lockdown-era welfare state.
Posted inTAP
When Historic Successes Don’t Move Voters
Today on TAP: Biden’s achievements are significant, but don’t provide the kind of direct individual aid that people actually notice.
Posted inTAP
False Equivalence
Today on TAP: Why does the mainstream media keep depicting lunatic-right Republicans and normal Democrats as equidistant from the center?
Posted inPolitics
How to Cover a Presidential Campaign
Hollowing out government capacity and leveraging executive power to harm political enemies is at the heart of the Trump-DeSantis project. Will we hear about that?
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Access Journalism–House Republican Mind Meld
On today’s X-Date, how the relationship between Punchbowl News and Kevin McCarthy is driving a bad resolution to the debt ceiling crisis
Posted inPolitics
The Fake ‘Left-Wing Attack on Science’
The supposed mistreatment of an article that criticized leftist assaults on scientific objectivity was itself a fake. Why did the editors of The New York Times take this fraud seriously?
Posted inEconomic Policy
Savvy Beltway Reporters’ Debt Ceiling Duplicity
Today on X-Date: Axios, CNBC, and Punchbowl News work to normalize Republican legislative terrorism.
