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Margaret SullivanThe Guardian |
Everything we know about the next US president suggests that the press in America will be under siege in the next four years as never before. After...
In recent days, the Republican nominee for president of the United States has driven around in circles in a garbage truck, pretended to work at...
The choice for president has seldom been starker. On one side is Donald Trump, a felonious and twice-impeached conman, raring to finish off the job of...
Bret Baier started off his Wednesday evening interview with Kamala Harris with a barrage of combative questions about immigration, designed less to...
The news from Bob Woodward’s latest book is startling. The legendary Washington Post journalist has reported that as the Covid pandemic raged in...
Tim Walz has said he’s an unskilled debater, and he didn’t disprove that on Tuesday night in the first and only 2024 vice-presidential debate....
There was a moment when JD Vance could have turned back from the story. After the vice-presidential candidate posted on social media about Haitian...
This week, Conservative MPs asked the Commons to “pray against” statutory instrument No 869, which exercises expedient regulatory powers under...
If presidential debates don’t really matter, as some have contended, Kamala Harris would not have been on the stage in Philadelphia on Tuesday...
They said it couldn’t be done. For years, we’ve heard all the reasons – excuses, really – that presidential debates cannot and should not be...
Back in 2016, as Michelle Obama was doing a campaign speech for Hillary Clinton, she urged a way to deal with bullies like Donald Trump. “When they...
J Michael Luttig has never endorsed a Democrat before. That’s no surprise since the well-respected legal scholar – a retired federal appeals court...
I can understand why Kamala Harris hasn’t given a sit-down interview to a major media organization or done a no-holds-barred press conference since...
It was a headline that many American journalists yearned to see, in the place they most wanted to see it. Spread across the Wall Street Journal’s...
It’s going to be ugly, that much is already clear. In the few days since Kamala Harris began her 2024 campaign for president, the media has shown us...
Since Donald Trump was injured on Saturday in the chilling assassination attempt at his Pennsylvania rally, the nation has been advised – including...
It’s possible for two conflicting ideas to be true at once. And so it is with the mainstream media’s unrelenting focus on Joe Biden’s mental...
If you’ve been paying even the slightest bit of attention, you know that the American Experiment took some gut punches over the last week. Joe Biden...
From the moment the candidates walked out on to the stage in Atlanta, it was obvious that this debate was a big mistake for Joe Biden. By the end, it...
If Joe Biden is to win November’s election, he must win this week’s televised debate. He must come off as energetic and competent. He must make...
What’s the point of owning the Washington Post if it’s no longer the Washington Post? By that, I mean the iconic US newspaper whose storied...
When Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post in 2013, he said he wanted to give the storied but struggling newspaper the “runway” it needed to take...
For decades, he skated. Nothing seemed to stick to the Teflon-coated businessman-turned-president. The guy who didn’t pay his bills, who constantly...
We’ve been here before. Donald Trump says or does something outrageous, and then walks it back slightly. But his message as a would-be authoritarian...
When you set out to explore Donald Trump’s personal life and business practices, you don’t expect to meet any paragons of virtue. Sleazy media...
Kristen Welker, the moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, did her best to pin down Tim Scott last Sunday. Would the junior senator from South Carolina...
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...