I absolutely love this Slate parody of the anonymous op-ed in the NY Times from a senior administration official at the White House. In this version, a member of a group that's in the middle of robbing a bank portrays himself as a hero for turning on the gang's leader...

Stacy Brick wrote an open letter to President Trump about his constant attacks on journalists like her husband, Mike Brick, a lifelong newspaper man who died of cancer two years ago at 41: It is gut-wrenching and physically painful to hear you call journalists “the...

At The Daily Beast, Sam Stein writes about a new Ipsos poll: 43 percent of self-identified Republicans said that they believed “the president should have the authority to close news outlets engaged in bad behavior.” Only 36 percent disagreed with that statement. When...

There are seven weeks to go before Election Day. Like many, I hope a huge number of my fellow Americans will turn out to vote, because that’s the only way to change the direction of the country. Rallies and protests and social media campaigns are fine, but they’re for...

I love this Kara Swisher piece about Trump's ludicrous attacks on Big Tech, and not just because it taught me a new word (codswallop!), but because of this: “Here’s the truest conundrum of the social media age: Those who complain loudest about being silenced never...

The latest argument from Trump acolytes is, "So what if Russia interfered in our presidential election? The US has done the same thing in lots of other countries." Yes, that's true, and there are many examples: In the early 1970s, Nixon's administration helped Augusto...