Journalists always warn us of the far right, but where on earth is the far left? When journalists are puffing socialists like Zohran Mamdani, they show where they belong on the ideological spectrum. If they tagged Ilhan Omar or AOC as “far left,” our jaws would drop.   MRC Director of Media Analysis Geoff Dickens and […]

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo secured a temporary restraining order on Thursday in his legal battle with the New York State Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government over his memoir that focused on his administration’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cuomo filed a lawsuit with the Albany County Supreme Court this week, seeking to prohibit […]

Detroit is synonymous with autos, Los Angeles with motion pictures, and Texas with oil. Pittsburgh still conjures steel. When a product or service anchors a region’s economy, that sector has power. Politicians court industry. Industry demands representation and, ideally, protection. What’s true regionally is just as true nationally. That’s why K Street exists and lobbyists […]

There’s a lot of talk from the left comparing the Trump administration’s immigration policies to a supposedly backward 1920. “Trump’s latest anti-immigration push echoes the nativism of the 1920s,” alleges a Dec. 7 analysis by The Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty. “Language such as that used by the president and those around him harks back more […]

I’ve been writing about the failure of feminism now for nearly ten years. Recently, my work was attacked in the Boston Globe by a Harvard student. Her complaint? I’m too reasonable. In her op-ed, Zoe Yu writes: The genius of Gress’s rhetoric is that it is not an appeal to regressive submission but to reason, to […]