Atlantic

A scathing Atlantic article by two liberal writers harshly criticizes California Governor Gavin Newsom’s record, warning he could doom Democrats in 2028. They cite soaring housing costs, rising homelessness, controversial progressive policies, failing infrastructure, and education woes as major liabilities for his potential presidential run.

This blog criticizes The Atlantic for linking the fringe “looksmaxxing” movement—an extreme obsession with appearance involving self-harm and superficiality—to Trump supporters. The author argues that the movement is ideologically incoherent and that the association with MAGA is exaggerated and unfair, making The Atlantic’s reporting seem desperate and lacking credibility.

On Friday at The Atlantic, new hire (and former longtime Washington Post sports columnist) Sally Jenkins went through the silly motions of pretending that there is at present no scientific conclusion as to whether "trans women" (men) have a natural athletic advantage over women as you can see in "The Question That the Lawyers Representing Trans Athletes Didn’t Answer."

The Atlantic’s profile of California Gov. Gavin Newsom highlights his deep ties to the influential Getty oil family—mentioning “Getty” 22 times—while portraying him positively overall. The article explores how Newsom’s privileged background, business ventures, and political career are intertwined with Getty wealth, yet notes little criticism of this connection.

PBS used to call its Friday night journalists roundtable Washington Week In Review. It's now Washington Week with The Atlantic, but it could be called Trashing Trump's Week In Review. Trump adding his name to the Kennedy Center caused an all-night freakout. On the PBS News Hour, David Brooks compared Trump to Stalin and Mao. On this show, it was just "tinpot…

On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish has as a guest Mark Wolf, who reOn today's CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish had as a guest Mark Wolf, who recently retired as a federal District Court judge in order to be free to criticize President Trump. Wolf claimed: "The judiciary is striving, particularly the lower court judges, to perform our fundamental role of holding elected officials to…

Atlantic magazine writer Nicholas Florko reluctantly praises President Trump for persuading Pfizer to lower its U.S. drug prices to match those in other developed countries. Trump's administration struck a deal with Pfizer where the pharmaceutical giant will also participate in TrumpRx, a program offering discounted drugs. This breakthrough followed years of Trump's efforts to reduce…

Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic featured regular roundtable journalist Vivian Salama of The Atlantic discussing the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, or rather, the GOP’s supposedly frightening and hypocritical reactions to Kirk’s assassination: "President Trump puts television networks on notice and stokes fears that he`s using the government to…

On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Eugene Daniels, who is married to a man, defended Kamala Harris's decision not to choose Pete Buttigieg as her running mate. Daniels says that, with a black woman as the presidential candidate, adding another "other," i.e., a gay person, to the ticket "would be too hard for people to swallow."…

But Scarborough didn't try! To the contrary, with his infamous "best Biden ever and f-you if you don't believe it" line, uttered just three months before Biden's disastrous debate performance, Scarborough was urging Biden to stay in the race. Scarborough admits that in their conversations, Biden was "slow, plodding, everything was really stiff, he spoke quietly and haltingly." But Scarborough…

One of the hyperbolic Resist movement’s favorite reporters going back to her days with The Washington Post, Ashley Parker — who joined Laurene Powell Jobs’s The Atlantic in December — wrote a piece Friday huffing and puffing about the presence of the National Guard in Washington D.C. as part of President Trump’s efforts to address crime in the nation’s capital. Parker leveled…

NewsBusters Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and I were stunned by Sunday’s Face the Nation in which the show made a baffling decision to deceptively remove a key portion of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s answer about the alleged criminal record of illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia. As our Bill D’Agostino wrote, this was part of a pattern of behavior from CBS News,…

President Trump’s use of emergency powers to federalize the D.C. police and deploy the National Guard to America’s disgracefully crime-ridden capital city was greeted with racially charged animus by the (for the moment) taxpayer-funded pundits on PBS’s Washington Week in Review on Friday evening. Show moderator and Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg brought up what he “a…

Before politics overwhelmed the word, the primary meaning of "liberal" was "generous." President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress have given political liberals a chance to take that meaning back — by opening their wallets to show just how much they value NPR, PBS and other programs defunded by the GOP. There’s no shortage of cash on the left: Laurene Powell Jobs, the mega-rich backer…