Big Journalism

New York Magazine’s Benjamin Wallace-Wells thinks America expects too much for Nate Silver and his new FiveThirtyEight site. At least that’s how Wallace-Wells spun what was an overall sense of disappointment with the site’s launch earlier this week: FiveThirtyEight, as

MSNBC’s new award-winning reporter, Ronan Farrow, has been scouring the world for the most trenchant stories of our time, and this week, the Hollywood scion investigated the adult male fans of the kids’ cartoon My Little Pony who go by the name

The game has changed since the West aligned against the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and Russia knows it. America is weaker, and British leaders are captivated by procuring and protecting personal fortunes. According to Politico Magazine, Russia realized

The pornography business, noting the wild success of social media that dwarfs its own, has figured out that social media can skyrocket the pornography business to new heights. The fact that social networking sites are four of the top ten

The New York Times took an in-depth look at CNNs’ obsessive coverage of Flight 370, the Boeing 777 that has gone missing for over a week. While the third-place cable news network has seen a surge in ratings, there has

In an article from Mother Jones, the authors imply that marijuana growing is causing global warming. Watch the way the article moves deliberately to its focus on the environmental dangers of marijuana growing to the climate change climax. The authors

Still desperate to convince young people to sign up for Obamacare, the President and his administration have been hitting Spanish-language media hard trolling for new enrollees. The administration is fanning out across Latino TV during these last two weeks of

The Economist’s latest cover story warns readers of “The New Age of Crony Capitalism.” The magazine’s editors are to be commended for shining a journalistic light on cronyism’s rise and the corrosive effects of rent-seeking behavior. The Economist does a

A flock of journalists who have left mainstream news outlets to jump full-time into new web-based startups are being criticized for contributing to the “white man’s” news tradition. That all the high profile new Internet news startups are being launched

This was yet another weekend of failures for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, but you would never know it from reading the New York Times. While the mayor lost his bid to raise taxes on wealthy New Yorkers

So many try to be. But how many really are? In this case, the effort itself eliminates you from therunning. You either have it or you don’t. It’s a look in the eye. It’s saying the right words at the

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg turned 81 on Saturday and remains one of the strongest voices on the court for liberal judicial thought. That did not deter one LA Times columnist from using her birthday to remind people that she

Since December, the Los Angeles Times has been reporting that Occidental College has refused to disclose incidents of sexual harassment on campus. Now the paper is apologizing for taking many of those incidents out of context. The paper has also

On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7 PM to 10 PM, host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon will put Russia’s aggression in Crimea and Islamic terrorism in focus. Guests will also update listeners on the

Today, on March 1, 2064, as we look back at the history of the last 50 years, we can point to two remarkable geopolitical facts: First, the US and China have both continued to grow economically for all these years,

In what appears to be a distraction strategy by Nebraska Senate candidate Shane Osborn, his campaign or someone close to it is recycling a tenuous story about his opponent Ben Sasse, a former Health and Human Services official in the

Nate Silver is on the cusp of launching his newly revamped, ESPN-housed FiveThirtyEight. In an interview with New York Magazine, Silver trashes opinion writers as “undisciplined” creators of “a lot of bullshit” that have no place in the future of

The Associated Press and the National Journal have corrected erroneous stories they ran about Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), misquoting a remark that he made at an anti-abortion rally.  On Wednesday at the Susan B. Anthony List “Campaign for Life Gala

Amid the droves of attendees that descended upon National Harbor for the 50th anniversary of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week, Citizens United attracted thousands of these individuals to its events. Over the course of the conference, Citizens

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will reportedly launch a subscription digital video channel in the coming months in a venture with former executives from NBC and CNN. Subscriptions will cost $10 a month or $100 per year. According to a

After National Journal published a headline that led readers to believe Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) got drunk while singing karaoke at a fundraiser–though the article clearly stated that he did not–Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) denounced it as “libelous” on the House floor

Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon and Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow will host Breitbart News Saturday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 10 AM to 1 PM EST.  Topics the show will cover include the War on the Internet (the

Nicolle Wallace, former adviser to the McCain-Palin 2008 presidential campaign who worked with Steve Schmidt, appeared on The View on Thursday and gushed over Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, and even Bill Clinton. Predictably, however, she trashed Sarah Palin. Wallace has tried

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was driving home on Thursday listening to PolitiChicks Gina Loudon and Ann-Marie Murrell, who were guests on The Dennis Prager Show, and decided to call in herself. “I just wanted to call in and thank the gals

Conservative columnist George Will blames a weak Congress as the reason President Obama has been able to expand his executive branch powers. Will told Fox News channel’s Special Report that “the Congress is at fault here by letting its power be