The mainstream media’s failure to swiftly cover former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline was again a topic of conversation this week, after Axios reporter Alex Thompson gently chided fellow journalists during his remarks at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The 2024 dinner, which I attended, was a muted affair when compared with previous years: The evening’s preplanned […]
On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at “restoring freedom of speech.” But judging from his administration’s policies and his actions as a private litigant, Trump’s commitment to that principle is highly selective at best. Last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he was […]
Shortly before last year’s presidential election, the Des Moines Register reported the results of a poll that gave Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate, a three-point lead in Iowa. That surprising result, generated by a survey that pollster Ann Selzer conducted for the Register, proved to be off by more than a little: Donald Trump ultimately won Iowa […]