Today’s New York Times celebrates the rise of a new group of historians of capitalism, led by Harvard’s Sven Beckert, that focuses on “the bosses, bankers and brokers who run the economy” rather than the people at the bottom of the heap,
A month ago, Lisa challenged us to think about the lack of long-form journalism in conservative media. Given that long-form journalism has been the path to success for VICE–which does some of what we do here, and in something like
I’ve been a fan of Shane Smith and his VICE crew ever since their bizarro tour of North Korea, which exposed the sheer madness of the regime even within the confines of an official visit. Now VICE has a cable
In today’s New York Times, guest columnist Ta-Nehisi Coates launches what is only the latest and most pretentious attack against Dr. Ben Carson, arguing that he is a fraud–not because of what he is saying, but because white conservatives seem
Over the Passover/Easter holiday, I traveled back home to Chicago to spend time with family. I also caught up on a bit of news I’d missed since moving to California to work with Andrew Breitbart more than two years ago:
At the Easter service attended Sunday by President Barack Obama and his family, the pastor railed against “captains of the religious right,” according to the White House pool report cited by the Washington Post. The service, led by Rev. Luis
On the Mar. 31 edition of Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace interviewed gun regulation advocate Mark Kelly about his recently-released video of a background check at an Arizona gun store, but failed to ask Kelly about the fact that
Green Day launched its new American arena tour on Thursday night as only they can, screaming through an impossibly wide-ranging set that had thousands of fans jumping, moshing and stage-diving at Chicago’s Allstate Arena for well over two hours. But
It worked last time. Last year, when oral arguments in the Obamacare case seemed to go against the administration, the left targeted Chief Justice John Roberts with a series of attacks from President Barack Obama on down. The attacks may have worked,
Our lead story this morning is being attacked by the usual miscreants. No one is disputing the facts; they are attacking us because the story involves the Obamas’ daughters, Sasha and Malia. The White House asks that the Obamas’ children be off limits “when
If it was once possible, based on evidence of his past associations and his record in office, to describe President Barack Obama as “anti-Israel,” it is no longer plausible now. Either Obama has changed, or revealed a side to himself
President Barack Obama was once criticized for his “apology tour” around the globe, in which he bowed to Islamic leaders and admitted America’s faults. Now, he is making other western leaders apologize. In a surprise move before leaving Israel, President
When President Barack Obama was heckled during a speech to Israeli students in Jerusalem on Thursday, the U.S. media reported that the heckler was a student calling for the release of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard. On CNN, Wolf Blitzer even devoted
Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center blamed conservatives for the Republican Party’s troubles in an op-ed for the Washington Post. Ironically, his own data show that the U.S. shifted in a more conservative direction in the years since President
The most telling line in President Barack Obama’s speech Thursday to students in Jerusalem was his plea for Palestinian statehood on the basis of “fairness”: “It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of
President Barack Obama visit to Israel was going well until a speech to students in Jerusalem Thursday. The speech itself was a success until Obama chose to lecture Israeli students about having empathy for Palestinians: And put yourself in their
The mainstream American media are grading President Barack Obama’s trip to Israel as a win, after just a few hours of events and meetings. And it is a success thus far–even without the grade inflation from the “incestuous” American press
President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel hasn’t been perfect. He began with a gratuitous dig at his political opposition back home–a ritual of Obama’s foreign trips, as if he alone is exempt from the rule that “politics stops at the
President Barack Obama has arrived in Israel at the start of a four-day trip to the region that will include stops in the West Bank and in Jordan. It is the first visit by a U.S. president since George W.
We ought to celebrate the day we win wars, not just remember the days they started. The Iraq war began on March 20, 2003, and was won several years later–long before the last U.S. troops left on Dec. 18, 2011.
The RNC’s “autopsy” buys into the idea that voting for “comprehensive immigration reform” is the key to winning Hispanic votes for the GOP: We are not a policy committee, but among the steps Republicans take in the Hispanic community and
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has ordered a review of U.S. military strategy as the budget sequester takes effect. The sequester, which trims spending by roughly $500 billion over the next decade, was already existing law under the Budget Control
President Barack Obama heads to Israel today to fulfill a campaign promise from 2012, as Israelis prepare for Monday’s Passover holiday. Though the White House is lowering expectations of the visit, there are signs it may help to repair a
The Republican National Committee (RNC) has released its long-awaited study on the 2012 elections, with detailed recommendations about how the party can improve its future. The report, entitled the “Growth and Opportunity Project,” was compiled by a special committee consisting
The mainstream media have played up the predictable narrative coming out of CPAC’s straw poll: that conservatives are moving towards isolationism, abandoning traditional support for a strong national defense. It is quite obvious whom that narrative benefits–not just Sen. Rand
