PIIE President Adam Posen

Twitter WRECKS Think Tank Head for Racialized Manufacturing Remark

Business
October 7th, 2022 4:52 PM

Twitter users slammed the elitist head of a Google-, Meta- and Microsoft-funded think tank calling domestic manufacturing a “fetish” for white men “with low education.”

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These Are the Media Outlets Denying Babies Have Heartbeats at 6 Weeks

September 23rd, 2022 4:36 PM

Numerous pro-abortion journalists have rushed to the defense of Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams after she drew heavy criticism from the right for her claim that “there is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks [of pregnancy].”

National Review Demolishes Farah for Selling Out to the Liberal Media

July 14th, 2022 8:06 PM

Writing Thursday morning at National Review, Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) fellow Nate Hochman penned a scathing examination of CNN political commentator Alyssa Farah Griffin, chronicling her rise from a well-known political family to the upper echelons of conservative political communications to liberal media darling and from Trump supporter to skeptic to card-carrying member of The…

Editor’s Pick: NR on Ugly Media Reaction to Musk Twitter Takeover

April 27th, 2022 10:57 AM

On Tuesday, National Review’s media and enterprise reporter Isaac Schorr provided a round-up of some of the most outrageous left-wing media reactions to billionaire Elon Musk buying Twitter, sarcastically noting that for many journalists, “It was the darkest day on Earth since net-neutrality repeal.” He then went through “the hysterical reaction of much of the mainstream press.”

Editor’s Pick: National Review on Rolling Stone Freak-Out Over Manchin

April 11th, 2022 11:15 AM

On Monday, National Review’s senior writer Charles C.W. Cooke reported that “Rolling Stone has a big, angsty story today about how terrible Senator Joe Manchin is. The headline of the offering is ‘How Joe Manchin Knifed the Democrats — and Bailed on Saving Democracy,’ the tweet promoting it reads, ‘How Joe Machin double-crossed Democrats — and torched plans to protect your…

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WashPost ‘Fact Checker’: Little Evidence Biden to Blame for Oil Crisis

Business
March 17th, 2022 12:20 PM

The Washington Post’s editor and chief writer of “The Fact Checker” Glenn Kessler pushed misinformation about President Joe Biden’s responsibility for sky-high energy prices in the U.S.

Commies in Love: NYT Under Fire After More Evidence of Ties to China

March 15th, 2022 11:24 AM

This week, the reliably pro-communist New York Times found itself in more hot water after it published a Sunday column from an official with a Chinese Communist Party outfit without proper disclosure as well as failing to note that said author appeared last year with longtime columnist and pro-China defender Thomas Friedman at an event for a think tank tied to Chinese state-run media…

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The Left Hated 'Corrupt,' Pro-Gun Red Dawn's Fight Against the Commies

March 12th, 2022 12:15 PM

The devastating and all-too-real invasion of Ukraine by the Russians has galvanized the world. It also reminded some of a movie favorite of many Americans, one loathed by the media. Its plot? A determined group of young people fight off an invasion by the Russians. Of course, I’m talking about the ‘80s classic Red Dawn

Editor’s Pick: NR on New Yorker’s Amy Coney Barrett Hit Piece

February 16th, 2022 10:34 AM

On Tuesday, National Review writer and University of Notre Dame senior Maggie Garnett reported: “After reading a recent article in the New Yorker, one could not be blamed for imagining Amy Coney Barrett to be made of marble: a cold, impenetrable, masterpiece of the conservative artisan. That is, after all, how Margaret Talbot presents the newest addition to the Supreme Court.”

Editor’s Pick: NR on Politico Bracing for Conservative Pouncing

January 28th, 2022 10:31 AM

On Thursday, National Review Executive Editor Mark Antonio Wright reported: “In a ostensibly straight-news write-up on the politics of the coming confirmation of Justice Breyer’s successor, Politico reporters Meridith McGraw and Hailey Fuchs write: ‘The conservative movement has, for decades, prioritized Supreme Court fights over nearly all other forms of political battle....[but] they aren’t…

Editor’s Pick: NRO Covers Fallout of NYC’s Drug Injection Sites

December 30th, 2021 10:11 AM

Doing reporting the liberal media wouldn’t dare to do (or at least consistently), National Review’s Zachary Evans has a piece from Thursday morning highlighting the scene outside New York City’s two so-called safe injection sites, which “provide clean syringes and overdose-prevention services to addicts, who bring drugs from outside,” allow them to shoot up, and then be revived by medical…

Editor’s Pick: NR on Alcindor’s Worst Bias as She Moves to NBC

December 8th, 2021 11:11 AM

On Tuesday, National Review’s media reporter Isaac Schorr covered PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor moving to NBC News to perform the same role. He highlighted how “Alcindor has built a reputation as one of the most partisan reporters in the mainstream press, using her seat in the White House briefing room as a soapbox for progressive politics, despite working for the…

Editor’s Pick: NR on CNN Trying to Smear Rittenhouse Judge as Racist

November 12th, 2021 10:29 AM

On Friday, National Review’s Washington Correspondent John McCormack reported on a truly desperate attempt by CNN to smear the judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial as racist: “Here’s a headline from a CNN ‘news’ story: ‘Judge in Kyle Rittenhouse trial makes inappropriate Asian food joke.’”

Editor’s Pick: NR on Psaki Bristling at Question on Abortion, Pope

October 28th, 2021 10:19 AM

On Wednesday, National Review’s Brittany Bernstein reported on how White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki “bristled on Wednesday when a reporter asked if President Biden, who is Catholic and pro-abortion, will discuss ‘the human dignity of the unborn’ when he meets with Pope Francis later this week.”