House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is supposed to work for the American people first and his party second. Fox News conspiracy-monger Tucker Carlson isn’t supposed to be anywhere on that list. McCarthy’s outrageous decision to give Carlson exclusive access to thousands of hours of Capitol ...
On Monday, West Virginia State Sen. Randy Smith called on U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin to come before the Legislature and justify his vote for the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Manchin has famously said that if he can’t go home and explain it to West Virginia voters, then he won’t vote for ...
by David M. Shribman We are living a Brock Lovett moment. Brock Lovett? Reel your memory back a quarter century. Summon the most dramatic moment in the 1997 film “Titanic.” And recall what Brock Lovett, the “treasure hunter” played by Bill Paxton who searched for sunken ...
Come and let us pity white people. They are the real victims here. That, in essence, is the battle cry that’s powered much of American politics for the last 30 years, the last 15 in particular. It has echoed from the halls of government to the set of Fox “News” to the far-flung ...
by Matthew Yglesias The establishment of Fox News in the late 1990s forever changed both media and politics in America, transforming the formerly staid world of television news into the series of political shoutfests we know and love-hate today. More than a quarter-century after its ...
by Kevin McDermott We’re so accustomed to Tucker Carlson saying crazy stuff that his declaration last week that President Joe Biden should be removed from office under the 25th Amendment barely rippled through the national conversation. Because it was both silly and unsurprising. Of ...