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October 12, 2021

America’s ‘Civil War’: The real virus in our media and political culture

There's ideological warfare in this country that pits liberals and some disaffected Republicans warning that Trumpism is destroying the country against conservatives and Trumpists sounding the alarm that Joe Biden is unfit for office.

October 8, 2021

Trump, Pence downplay Jan. 6 Capitol violence in jockeying for 2024

With Joe Biden sliding in the polls, the media are gravitating toward more coverage — and attacks — aimed at Donald Trump and other Republicans eyeing the White House.

October 7, 2021

Why Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is drawing flak from the right

What she’s been talking about is how Facebook spreads hateful content and damages teenage girls, among other things, in the name of maximizing profit. She says the buck stops with Mark Zuckerberg and is urging Congress to regulate the company. She hasn’t been mounting an ideological attack.

October 6, 2021

Facebook’s anger management: Both parties embrace whistleblower at heated hearing

Things are going so horribly wrong for Facebook that its technological meltdown almost provided a respite—except that it made everyone even angrier.

October 5, 2021

Overreach: How Biden’s leftward lurch led to political paralysis

Nancy Pelosi didn’t have the votes on the $1.2-trillion infrastructure bill because the progressives are holding it hostage to get their $3.5-trillion Democratic wish list bill—which was in fact largely written by Bernie Sanders.

October 1, 2021

From Katie Couric to Jon Stewart, a media world in transition and turmoil

Some of the biggest names in media are reinventing themselves or resigning, or just plain settling scores—like Katie Couric, Jon Stewart, and Katty Kay, for example.

September 30, 2021

Biden’s stumbles might boost a Trump comeback—without election meddling

From the Jan. 6 fallout to voting rights restrictions, from Donald Trump’s pronouncements of a rigged election to the Arizona audit that showed a Biden victory, the question looming over most political coverage is whether the former president could pull off in 2024 what he failed to do this time around.

September 29, 2021

Milley advised Biden against Afghan pullout, denies usurping Trump’s authority

At a time when the media have largely moved on from the war--while the Taliban just barred female students from Kabul University--the Senate hearing with Mark Milley cast a much-needed spotlight on the calamitous end to our 20-year war.

September 24, 2021

Biden allies hurl party’s worst insult in border crisis: Acting like Trump

The out-of-control border disaster has sparked stinging criticism for the Biden administration from the left and the right, which is a difficult political feat.

September 22, 2021

Biden press coverage turns sour as some see a ‘credibility crisis’

President Biden took office with largely sympathetic treatment from the mainstream media, but his long media honeymoon is over now.