Is your three-month-old baby racist?
Conservatives like feeling outraged, but they don’t often like to earn their outrage. For most, it’s enough to wait for…
President Biden vs Dr Seuss
The children’s author Theodore Seuss Geisel lived his entire life not just as a staunch progressive, but even as the…
Pints and proposals at CPAC in Orlando
The Conservative Political Action Conference is in full swing. The ACU has upped sticks and thrown its annual shindig in…
America is back — and still bombing Syria
Presidents come, presidents go — but they all end up launching military airstrikes on the Middle East. Last night Joe…
Inside the American Moment launch party
What will the conservative movement look like post-Trump? Establishment Republicans seem eager to shake former President Donald Trump’s influence on…
Biden goes back to school with Dr Fauci
We’ve all had to learn more than enough about pathogens in recent months — how contagion spreads, how our immune…
Harvard study: reparations for slavery would reduce COVID-19 infections
Throughout the dark years of the Trump administration, brave, isolated voices in America’s richest, most liberal cities needed a means…
CNN is complicit in the Cuomo COVID cover-up
Last week, the homepage of CNN announced that ‘The story keeps getting worse for Andrew Cuomo on COVID-19.’ The story, penned…
The Biden administration’s bad romance
In a modern romance reminiscent of the classics, two star-crossed lovers found one another on the fair 2020 campaign trail.…
Something stupid this way comes
The mandarins of Qing China claimed the Mandate of Heaven. The French noblesse d’épée tied their privileges to a thousand…
Meghan Markle, the perfect Californian politician
Royal summits are often lavish affairs shown to us lowly peasants through photo spreads in Us Weekly and People. Cockburn…
Cockburn’s short, handy guide to the new political language
Words have been redefined for political purposes for a long time. In 2021, however, euphemisms are spreading with particular celerity.…
All hail the ‘reality czar’!
America has 330 million people, and not all of them are in complete agreement about what is true and what…
The final humiliation of Rudy Giuliani
Poor Rudy Giuliani. Kellyanne Conway has her daughter accusing her of abuse on TikTok, yet somehow Rudy may be the…
Television isn’t gay enough, says New York Times
It’s headline news at the New York Times: television is getting less gay! America’s paper of record may be uninterested…
We are living in a NeverTrump fantasy universe
Last July, Cockburn had this to say: ‘Commentators daydream of the moment Trump is dragged out, like Saddam Hussein from…
Snopes versus Abraham Lincoln
One of the most dreadful developments of the Donald Trump era has been the rise of the fact-check mafia. Every…
They think they’re better than you
Nancy Pelosi’s salon visit. Bill de Blasio’s gym session. Gavin Newsom’s French Laundry soirée. Cockburn can’t even keep up with…
The Trump presidency’s funniest moments
Is it too early to wax nostalgic about the hilarity of the Trump years? Could Trump somehow — somehow —…
The kids are not on the right
There are still questions hanging over the 2020 election. Not the ones Rudy Giuliani and his team are posing about…
The amazing blandness of Joe Biden’s foreign policy team
What does a Joe Biden presidency mean? We all know the answer. It means that tired but nice-sounding clichés about…
You can’t cancel Christmas, stupid
You may have seen this interesting exchange on CNN between ‘America’s top infectious diseases expert’ Dr Anthony Fauci and CNN…
How will the Trump presidency end?
Donald Trump will not go quietly into the good night. In fact, he seems determined to leave the office with…
Everyone suddenly believes Vladimir Putin
For four years, Vladimir Putin’s meddling in Our Democracy™ has been the all-consuming political obsession of the entire Washington/New York…
Joe Biden’s court-packing alternatives
After months of dodging questions from the press and his opponent, Joe Biden has finally announced his position on packing…