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April 28, 2021

Biden’s low-energy speech pushes costly agenda but doesn’t change the conversation  

Biden’s point at the traditional media luncheon, before he went off the record, was that he was responding to the Covid emergency on the fly. But if that explains the $2-trillion law he passed with only Democratic votes, the next two bills—totaling over $4 trillion—clearly reflect a sweeping liberal agenda and Democratic wish list. And the new president’s job, in a House chamber with a sparse, socially distant crowd, was to sell it. And, in his low-key fashion, he tried.

April 28, 2021

Boring is better? Media embrace low-key Biden while missing the drama 

As Joe Biden prepares to deliver his first address to Congress tonight, the question is whether the country is relatively satisfied with a laid-back leader who’s often out of sight.

April 27, 2021

Why Kevin McCarthy, despite GOP infighting, has a strong chance of being speaker

Kevin McCarthy is upbeat about his chances of becoming House speaker

April 23, 2021

Media cheer Biden climate speech, but will it turn out to be hot air?

It’s pretty clear that the press is rooting not just for action to reduce global warming but for Biden’s extremely ambitious goal.

April 22, 2021

Why tribalism rules everything, from politics to culture to criminal trials

Even as the man who killed George Floyd was found guilty of murder, we are finding plenty to argue about.

April 21, 2021

Chauvin’s quickie conviction brings media applause and a national sigh of relief

Jurors in the Derek Chauvin trial took less than one full day of deliberations to decide that the officer had indeed committed second- and third-degree murder by depriving George Floyd of oxygen—just as the awful nine-minute video made chillingly clear.

April 20, 2021

Journalists beaten, pepper-sprayed, arrested as Minnesota police out of control at protests

The police in Minnesota seem to be doing their best to tarnish their sinking reputation even further.

April 16, 2021

Trump’s clout still makes him news, despite media’s wishful thinking

Donald Trump wields more political power than any former president in history. His actions remain newsworthy.

April 15, 2021

Biden’s risky Afghanistan pullout: A Trumpian blow against endless wars?

President Biden has come down firmly against "endless wars," ordering the remaining U.S. contingent out by the symbolic date of Sept. 11.

April 14, 2021

J&J vaccine ‘pause,’ criticized by Trump, draws flak as possible overreaction

If a half-dozen severely adverse reactions to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are enough for federal health authorities to call for a pause in using it, why don’t they just order that? Why are they just punting to the states?