Health Care

Morning Joe gave Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed a friendly platform Wednesday morning and failed to press him on the radical implications of two of his signature positions: Medicare for All, and his condemnation of Israel as an "illegal apartheid state" that is "bloodthirsty" and commits "genocide."

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Jordan Klepper and NBC’s Late Night host Seth Meyers finally acknowledged the existence of the Fauci Hearings on their Thursday shows and eagerly stepped up to defend him. According to Klepper, the hearings featured Republicans trying to reduce a complicated topic to “a performative partisan filter," while Meyers blamed President Trump for any…

Thursday’s Morning Joe spent little time on Anthony Fauci’s actual refusal to answer questions and far more time insisting the real COVID villains were Donald Trump and his “spineless minions.” Joe Scarborough opened with a puerile stunt, pretending he hadn't seen the hearing, but was sure the Republicans were finally going to admit that the president had lied to the American people about the…

MS NOW Reports host Antonia Hylton brought on The Bulwark’s senior national correspondent Jonathan Cohn on Wednesday to help her make sense of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s appearance before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. In a frustrating display of someone trying to have it both ways, Cohn admitted that there are legitimate questions that could be asked of Fauci but…

The Anthony Fauci diary reveals his close relationship with members of the media, especially CNN's Jake Tapper, who strongly defended Fauci and dismissed criticism from the Trump White House. Diary entries show frequent personal contact, suggesting Tapper’s coverage was influenced by their friendship, blurring lines between journalism and advocacy.

The blog humorously critiques a New Yorker article dubbing our era the “Age of Explosive Diarrhea” due to a cyclospora outbreak. It highlights the spread of the parasite in produce, the resulting public panic, and ultimately blames diminished federal food safety oversight, tying this to political changes under Trump.

The late night comedy shows have spent the past two weeks promoting The Odyssey, but Wednesday’s edition of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show decided to insert itself into the debate surrounding some of the casting decisions. Host-of-the-week Desi Lydic welcomed transgender actor Elliot Page and gushed that “your performance…truly took my breath away.” For good measure, both also hyped Canada’s…

Touted as an exclusive story on National Public Radio from health reporter Selena Simmons-Duffin, “Trump's HHS abandons threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding over trans care," dutifully repeated the “gender-affirming care for youth” misnomer in the lead while providing only trans-supportive sources.

America has a socialism problem, and it’s bigger than most citizens realize. When candidates aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America win Democratic party primaries, or New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani hails “the warmth of collectivism,” socialism’s advance is obvious. But it’s making gains in other ways, too, especially in the transformation of America’s workforce — which is coming to…

Monday was a rough night for part-time late night comedy hosts when it came to Sen. Mitch McConnell’s hospitalization. On ABC, Jimmy Kimmel Live! substitute Ike Barinholtz portrayed McConnell as a health care hypocrite for receiving care when allegedly denying it to others.   Similarly, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart claimed that McConnell was smiling in his “proof of life” photo because, thanks…

Actor and comedian Ike Barinholtz became this year's second summer guest host of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday and the second to try to claim they are following in Kimmel’s footsteps by becoming a free speech martyr. What made Barinholtz’s claim extra dumb is that he tried to do so preemptively as he attacked Sen. Mitch McConnell after his hospitalization as a health care hypocrite and…

Sen. Andy Kim’s mean-spirited partisan hackery about Congressman Tom Kean's bout with depression was at least expected. Less defensible was PBS News Hour’s “journalism” piling on about whether Kean's experience would change "his thinking around access to mental health services."

In their weekly chat on Substack, former CNN and Washington Post reporter Chris Cillizza and former NBC and MSNBC host Chuck Todd quipped on Monday that racism was “the only reason” why the American people view Barack Obama as a liberal president, even though he was only “a degree more liberal than Bill Clinton” and “temperamentally a moderate.”

National Public Radio has crowned Luigi Mangione, the alleged murderer of United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson a “folk hero” among certain parts of the public. “As Luigi Mangione's lawyers head to court, support grows for the accused 'vigilante'” was the headline to Monday’s online article by national desk correspondent Brian Mann. The prominent photo caption set the tone: “A mural of Luigi…