May 25, 2022 Why the White House contradicts Biden over his stand on Taiwan Joe Biden is the guy who got elected. The policy is whatever he says it is. Why does he allow unnamed White House aides to contradict him on issues like Taiwan and Russia?
May 24, 2022 Kellyanne Conway defends Trump (mostly), rips the media, chides her husband Unlike the Trump-bashing books she says are filled with “lies” and “deceptions,” Conway insists this is not a belated effort to distance herself from mistakes.
May 19, 2022 Disinformation Board sidelined, newspaper blames conservative media The government’s Disinformation Governance Board: a truly awful idea made worse by the ham-handed attempt to sell it, the board became a symbol of federal censorship and intimidation
May 18, 2022 Bezos bashes Biden, Musk signals Twitter deal in trouble Biden’s targeting of Amazon is no accident. One report says the e-commerce giant has paid a federal tax rate in the last four years of 5.1% on $78 billion in income in the U.S.
May 17, 2022 Racist Buffalo shooting sparks partisan warfare, media blame game After each mass shooting, there is a brief moment where people on the left and the right wait to see what the killer’s motivation is, then rush to score political points depending on the outcome.
May 12, 2022 Why journalists are going bonkers over Musk’s plan to lift Trump’s Twitter ban Left-wingers denounced Musk as the leader of an evil empire. Right-wingers hailed him for righting a digital wrong. And every news organization on the planet covered it.
May 11, 2022 Mark Esper says Trump pushed 'dangerous' ideas, but stayed quiet until peddling 'A Sacred Oath' book Mark Esper, the former Pentagon chief fired by Donald Trump, now calls him a “danger to democracy.”
May 10, 2022 Abortion protests at justices’ homes fuel a new round of recriminations To take the pro-choice protests to the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices absolutely crosses a line. The purpose is to pressure one of the justices into changing his or her mind on abortion and Roe v. Wade.
May 5, 2022 Looking for the leaker: What was the ideological motivation for providing the Roe v. Wade reversal draft? The Supreme Court is a cathedral of secrecy, but justices have to be able to exchange views, trade notes and cobble together a consensus in an atmosphere of confidentiality. This explains why the Roe v. Wade abortion leak happened, and why it's so devastating.
May 4, 2022 Leaked draft on abortion sparks huge uproar over Supreme Court’s motives and credibility Perhaps the most devastating fallout from the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion, if this ruling comes to pass, would be an undermining of confidence in what is seen as an increasingly partisan Supreme Court.
