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Margaret SullivanThe Guardian |
Donald Trump, who once bragged that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any voters, has gotten away for years with unimaginable...
It took only days from Uri Berliner’s publishing his fiery essay about his employer, NPR, to his suspension, to his resignation in a blaze of...
Sometimes, in 2024 America, you have to pinch yourself to make sure you’re not in a long-running dystopian nightmare. Then again, maybe we all are....
I learned the hard way to be skeptical about the predictive power of public opinion polls. I remember election night 2016 all too well, as I hit...
Donald Trump has had an encouraging day or two on the money front. On Monday, a New York appeals panel lowered – to a mere $175m – the amount the...
As boneheaded corporate decisions go, the one by NBC News to bring on Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor is right up there. Whatever twisted purpose...
The photograph, framed and in a place of honor, is precious to me. Taken in 2016 outside a Manhattan restaurant, it’s a casual shot of four young...
If you’re any kind of a Taylor Swift fan, you’ve seen the footage of the pop star arguing with her father. The subject is politics. Or, more...
It can be diverting – even fun – to fantasize about who might become the next president of the United States. Wouldn’t it be cool if, say, the...
The former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s much touted sit-down with Vladimir Putin was many things. It was damaging to global democracy, giving...
The new journalism outlet began less than a year ago to considerable fanfare. Claiming it would be unbiased and indispensable, the Messenger recruited...
With Trump’s victory in New Hampshire, the battle lines are drawn for November. Unless something very weird happens, we’re looking at a Joe Biden...
Paul Moore vividly remembers the Baltimore Sun in its heyday, not so long ago. “More than 400 newsroom staff, six foreign bureaus and a 12-person...
Elise Stefanik is having a moment. If she were a song on the Billboard chart, she’d have a bullet next to her name to show the speed of her...
When Joe Biden talks on Saturday about US democracy on the brink, there’s no doubt that it will be a campaign speech. Maybe the most important one...
Living in a Manhattan apartment, I’ve learned to streamline. I have what I need and not too much more. So when a large box arrived at holiday time...
Should there be a political price to pay for a president who refuses to engage in a peaceful transfer of power and incites a violent coup to stay in...
Timing isn’t everything. But it certainly matters, and seldom more so than in special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of Donald Trump. The former...
The numbers alone are dreadful. Journalists are being killed in the Israel-Hamas war at the rate of more than one every day since 7 October – at...
When you’ve done as many awful things as Elon Musk has, it’s challenging to outdo yourself. But the billionaire entrepreneur pulled that off this...
Whatever doubts you may have about public-opinion polls, one recent example should not be dismissed. Yes, that poll – the one from Siena College and...
As if the atrocities in the Middle East over the past month weren’t terrible enough, the mainstream press has managed to make matters worse. Too...
The process was appalling, and the outcome even more so, as Republicans in the House of Representatives finally found someone they could more or less...
The largest US publisher of books for children has a new collection that sounds wonderful. It’s called “Share every story, celebrate every...
As the horrors of last weekend’s attack on Israel by Hamas unfolded, people all over the world frantically searched for accurate information. If...
Twice in the past two weeks, Donald Trump has suggested violent consequences for those who dare to cross him. Mark Milley, the outgoing chairman of...
T he taxation of property in the eastern German state of Thuringia would normally be a subject of strictly local concern. But last week a vote to cut...
T o count the thousands killed by the floods in the eastern Libyan city of Derna does not truly help us grasp their loss. “Those people are not...
In a chilling scene at the end of James Graham’s play Ink, Rupert Murdoch – having made his indelible mark on British media and society – slows...
O ne of my older brothers subscribed to Rolling Stone magazine in its early years, and while I saw women and musicians of color gracing its cover from...
Christiane Amanpour has reported all over the world, so she recognizes a democracy on the brink when she sees one. Last week, as she celebrated her 40...
Even before he took over Twitter, Elon Musk touted himself as a “free speech absolutist”. This was always a troubling notion for an insanely rich...