June 4, 2020 Culture war escalates as Trump says media glorify rioters We are also being plunged into a full-fledged culture war.
June 3, 2020 Trump threatens rioters with military, Biden urges racial healing In virtually everything he does, and the rioting across America is no exception, President Trump tries to project strength.
June 2, 2020 Journalists caught in the violent middle as Trump vows ‘law and order’ This is a heartbreaking time for our country, and journalists are caught squarely in the middle.
May 31, 2020 Buck Sexton: The press and protesters are fanning flames, not President Trump Buck Sexton on Sunday called “completely unfair” the New York Times piece that claimed President Trump was fanning flames amid the coronavirus pandemic and civil unrest in the wake of the death of George Floyd.
May 29, 2020 Will Trump force social media to clean up their act? President Trump escalated his war on social media networks yesterday, raising the existential question of whether they should be held responsible for the sometimes false and ugly content they carry.
May 22, 2020 Tough numbers: Is staggering unemployment the new normal? We spend a lot of time wondering what post-pandemic America is going to look like.
May 21, 2020 Farrow vs. Lauer: Are the old rules of fairness being abandoned? In the sudden debate that has erupted over Ronan Farrow’s reporting, a revealing moment may have been overlooked.
May 20, 2020 Why the campaign is frozen: Trump, Biden and industrial-strength Teflon Trump is getting pounded by the most sustained negative media coverage than any president since Nixon, and it doesn’t move the needle.
May 19, 2020 Cultural chasm: Why the election hinges on financial victims of the virus There are so many ways to slice and dice the debate over reopening the country: Democrat and Republican, pro-Trump and anti-Trump, urban and rural, elderly and younger people.
May 15, 2020 Kamala’s stealth campaign: Media now boosting her VP chances For someone who is said not to be campaigning for the vice-presidential slot, Kamala Harris is running a pretty effective campaign.