Fifteen years ago today, just weeks after George W. Bush invaded Iraq in a war for oil, Princeton University Professor Michael Oppenheimer wrote a column for the New York Times in which he observed: [T]he global warming issue, and particularly America’s handling of it, has become a central geopolitical concern. Speaking at a delicate moment […]
D.R. Tucker
D. R. Tucker is a Massachusetts-based journalist who has served as the weekend contributor for the Washington Monthly since May 2014. He has also written for the Huffington Post, the Washington Spectator, the Metrowest Daily News, investigative journalist Brad Friedman's Brad Blog and environmental journalist Peter Sinclair's Climate Crocks.
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Channeling Rage: Trump and Fox News
Here we stand Remote control buttons In our sweaty little hands As one man We’re lining up and waiting For someone’s command… TV rules– Pretty soon you won’t be able To turn it off at all! All you fools Then it will turn you off— Your back’s against the wall! —“T.V. Age,” Joe Jackson, 1982 […]
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Those Who Do Not Learn from History…
Now that ‘80s nostalgia is in vogue again by virtue of the box-office success of Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, it’s as good a time as any to note that this July marks the 35th anniversary of the release of Madonna’s debut album. If Donald Trump loses the 2020 election, then one can envision a […]
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Will Sinclair Target Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse?
Just because New England didn’t vote for Donald Trump doesn’t mean that region of the country is immune to the influence of Trump-friendly media, including the influence of a prominent station in Providence, Rhode Island: “This is extremely dangerous to our democracy,” WJAR-TV anchor Frank Coletta tells the camera in a recent segment about “biased […]
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Someone Tell Bill Maher Not to Waste His Sympathy on Laura Ingraham
Watch this clip very carefully from last night’s Real Time with Bill Maher. Do you notice that Maher doesn’t actually refute any of Eliot Spitzer and Heather McGee’s points about David Hogg’s pushback against Laura Ingraham’s rhetorical assault? As Northeastern University Professor Dan Kennedy observes here, all parties involved in the Hogg-Ingraham controversy simply exercised […]
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The Moral Depravity of the Right’s Defense of Scott Pruitt
The right’s commitment to environmental deregulation is trumping any concern about corruption.
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#ShutUpYourDrivel: The Demise of Laura Ingraham
As the old joke goes, like school on Saturday, she has no class. It’s fair to regard the self-destruction of Fox News host and wingnut-radio personality Laura Ingraham as the most morbidly funny story of the year. Ingraham’s self-righteous rhetorical assault on Parkland survivor David Hogg, and her subsequent fake apology to Hogg in the […]
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Unreliable Sources: Fox News Invades CNN
As if Rick Santorum wasn’t bad enough, did we really need to see former Fox News propagandist Eric Bolling being warmly received by Brian Stelter today? Bolling’s suggestion that Sean Hannity’s rantings are “always within the boundaries of fact” is beyond laughable: ever heard Hannity talk about climate change? Bolling’s suggestion that Donald Trump is […]
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You Know, CNN, You Could Have Had Emma Gonzalez On Instead of Rick Santorum
It was as offensive as it can possibly get. Just one day after the historic March for Our Lives, CNN, bowing down once again to the god of false balance, just had to bring former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum onto the panel of State of the Union this morning to spit all over the children […]
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Stormy Daniels is the Trump Voter’s Legacy
How many Trump voters will bring themselves to watch 60 Minutes tonight? Pardon me for assuming that the vast majority of those who sent the bigoted billionaire to the White House in November 2016 will not have the guts to view this evening’s scheduled broadcast of an interview with the President’s previous paramour, veteran adult […]
