Tucker Carlson is the new Trump — because there is nobody else
‘Tucker Carlson is the new Donald Trump.’ So said CNN’s Brian Stelter on his Sunday program, Reliable Sources. Stelter was…
Is Europe punishing Britain for its vaccine success?
Is it health and safety — or grubby EU vs Brexit politics? That’s the guessing game going on all the…
Vogue declares war on ‘niggling’
In the wake of Harry and Meghan’s Oprah interview, much American commentary has been focused on the beastly British tabloid…
Mum’s the word: British university scraps the word ‘mother’
Universities have traditionally played an important role in preparing young people for a life outside academia. These days, though, it…
Taylor Lorenz and the media’s sacred cows
How sacred is a New York Times reporter? Is one required to kowtow in their presence, or merely bow? If…
Did Meghan Markle cost Piers Morgan his job?
Piers Morgan quit his job as co-host of Good Morning Britain yesterday, following a formal complaint from Meghan Markle to…
Sigh Ngo more: Mumford disowns a son
Pity the poor rockstar who finds himself embroiled in the culture wars because he liked the wrong book. Winston Marshall,…
Why isn’t Archie a prince?
Viewers watching Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah on CBS last night were treated to a host of bombshells on…
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…
