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Honoring the Best of Nonfiction Book Reviewing
The Monthly’s Annual Kukula Award Returns.
Posted inFrom The Archives
What The Washington Post Could Learn From Sports Illustrated
(And vice versa)
Posted inLaw and Justice
What Was the Alito Flag Really About?
We must deal with the dangers of Justice Alito now, even if the roots of what happened with his spouse may never be known.
Posted inMagazine
Jeff Bezos’s Next Monopoly: The Press
With his vast investment in The Washington Post’s digital publishing technology, the Amazon founder could soon control the backbone of most large American newspapers.
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Washington Post’s Fred Hiatt is All Wrong About Impeachment
It’s not true that the people knew everything about Trump in 2016 and voted for him anyway.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Donald Trump’s Lying Inspires the Bottomless Pinocchio
The president lies so much and repeats the same lies so frequently that the Washington Post had to invest to new rating to account for it.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Post-Florence, The Fourth Estate Must Expand Its Climate Coverage
Once the water recedes, the excuses must recede as well. After the devastation and death wrought by Hurricane Florence, American print, broadcast and cable media outlets have a journalistic obligation to expand its coverage of the existential crisis of human-caused climate change. No longer can we tolerate having extensive coverage of extreme weather without that […]
Posted inPolitical Animal
Paris is Burning: CNN Deserves Flak for Hiring Pro-Trump Hack
Forrest Gump was right: Stupid is as stupid does. CNN said Wednesday evening that Paris Dennard has been suspended from his commentary role, pending an examination of the allegations against him in a Wednesday Washington Post story. The Post reported that Dennard was fired from a job at Arizona State University “for making sexually explicit […]
Posted inPolitical Animal
On Kavanaugh, What is Schumer Thinking?
It shocks the conscience that Schumer wouldn’t apply as much pressure as possible for no votes.
