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This week, Axios ran a fascinating piece about the supposed “redefinition” of Americanism under President Donald Trump. Titled “Inside Trump’s American identity project,” Axios posited that “President Trump is wielding government power to enforce a more rigid, exclusionary definition of what it means to be American.”

On Monday’s PBS News Hour, co-anchor Amna Nawaz discussed the latest arrest of the media’s favorite Maryland man, illegal immigrant and alleged gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, mistakenly deported to El Salvador and held in prison there before being ordered returned to the United States. The show’s Monday political discussion with NPR’s Tamara Keith also brought up Trump’s crackdown…

Ho-hum: Another day, another Trump = Hitler analogy on MSNBC. Today it was George Conway's turn. In an appearance on The Weekend, the co-founder of the disgraced Lincoln Project said that Trump's law enforcement moves in American cities is similar to what Hitler did in 1933.But Conway took things a step further, claiming: "If Donald Trump had had control of the policing in the District of…

It’s probably safe to say that unless they were a serious Washington insider, most Americans had never heard the names of Center for Disease Control Director Susan Monarez and Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.

Keith Olbermann clearly needs some help. On his Thursday Countdown podcast, the former MSNBC and ESPN host unleashed deranged attacks on President Donald Trump and former President George W. Bush, accusing the former of being behind the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting and the latter of staging terrorist threats to get himself re-elected. The common thread, for Olbermann, is that…

Why do celebrities turn awards show speeches into political rants?

There are softball interviews, there are T-ball interviews, and then there’s whatever New York Magazine and Vox Media's Pivot podcast host Kara Swisher did on Friday with California Gov. Gavin Newsom when she asked him what his favorite meme is.

Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr pinch-hit for MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart on Friday’s PBS News Hour and, during the discussion on the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis, blamed the GOP and its embrace of gun culture for mass shootings in America. New York Times columnist David Brooks wasn’t much better. While he refrained from that…

In the aftermath of the school shooting in Minneapolis, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski went after Republicans for their history of resisting more gun control, and ignored the fact that Democrats run Minneapolis and have had complete control of Minnesota's state government as recently as 2024. Scarborough also bizarrely pined for a wish list of gun restrictions that Democrats have…

As part of a New York City media blitz on Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) entered enemy territory on ABC’s Good Morning America and, unfortunately, weekend co-host Whit Johnson went all-negative in a six-minute-plus interview on turmoil inside the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), negative spin on the One Big Beautiful Bill, harping on the Epstein File hubbub, and demanding…

Despite mass shootings being on the decline in 2025 (and the last couple of years), CBS Evening News Plus (on the network’s streaming service), dedicated an interview segment to pushing for the return of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban. They highlighted a study from Northwestern University that claimed that if the ban was still in place, then it would see “a significant reduction…

The much-publicized exchange between Bed Bath & Beyond chairman Marcus Lemonis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom is a lesson for the whole country. We shoppers look back fondly on the marketing acumen that, starting with one store in 1971, built Bed Bath & Beyond into a retail giant that once had 365 stores nationwide.

The mother of 23 year-old transgender Minneapolis school shooter Robin Westman, who signed the name change for her biological male son from Robert to Robin, has hired a criminal defense lawyer and is refusing to speak to police.

After waiting more than month for a decision, Judge William Scott Henry of Florida’s 14th Judicial Circuit granted two motions to dismiss on a pair of defamation suits against The Associated Press and Puck News. The cases were brought by Navy veteran Zachary Young in the wake of his successful defamation case brought against CNN in the same court and before the same judge.