Neal Pollack

RIP NPR, the broadcaster that thought emojis were racist

18 July 2025 4:36 am

“Nearly 3-in-4 Americans say they rely on their public radio stations for alerts and news for their public safety,” National…

Prizes, bets and venture capital: how Democrats plan to win

16 July 2025 5:47 am

“The old ways of doing business just aren’t cutting it” for the Democratic Party, the New York Times wrote. Democrats…

Will Trump rename soccer?

15 July 2025 3:41 am

On the one-year anniversary of the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt on his life, President Trump celebrated on stage with Chelsea…

Why Trump can’t escape the Epstein Files drama

14 July 2025 10:26 pm

President Trump remains baffled over the endlessly churning Epstein List controversy. “We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like…

The Ten Commandments of Texas

13 July 2025 7:00 pm

Blessed greetings From Texas, where Governor Greg Abbott recently signed a bill that will require public schools to display the…

Who is Biden’s doctor protecting?

11 July 2025 6:15 am

When Joe Biden’s personal physician, Kevin O’Connor, pleaded the Fifth Amendment yesterday during the ongoing Congressional hearings about Biden’s mental…

Memes are legal again

10 July 2025 4:18 am

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has thrown out the conviction of Douglass Mackey for lack of evidence, remanding his…

Superman takes on the media

9 July 2025 4:14 am

Before Superman has to fight with kaiju, robots, metahumans and whatever other nonsense Lex Luthor throws at him, he first…

Tucker tosses softballs to Iran

8 July 2025 5:40 am

“I didn’t ask hard questions because I knew I wouldn’t get an honest answer,” said Tucker Carlson, our edgelord Barbara…

Don’t politicize the Texas flood

7 July 2025 8:43 pm

It’s early Monday morning here in Central Texas, and the rain just keeps on falling. Over the wettest weekend any…

The Merchant of Mar-a-Lago

5 July 2025 10:36 pm

While celebrating his signature legislative achievement, President Trump managed to wade into another ridiculous controversy this holiday weekend. In a…

This July 4, Trump wants you to celebrate winning – big time

4 July 2025 6:01 pm

As President Donald J. Trump waits for One Big Beautiful Bill to sign on the 4th of July, it’s worth…

Zohran Mamdani’s grocery chain will be a crime against New Yorkers

2 July 2025 7:00 pm

Of all the policies proposed by Zohran Mamdani, the socialist winner of last week’s New York’s Next Top Mayor competition,…

Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

27 June 2025 7:00 pm

The Trump Administration’s dream of reopening Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay appears to have stalled. But more than 3,000…

Mahmoud Khalil is living the American dream

26 June 2025 7:24 am

With Iran’s nuclear sites “obliterated” and the 12 DAY WAR in the rear-view, the Trump administration can now turn attention…

Call him Daddy

26 June 2025 4:16 am

Sitting next to Donald Trump at the end of a short NATO summit, Mark Rutte, head of the organization, looked…

Memories of the 12 DAY WAR

25 June 2025 1:25 am

President Trump didn’t start the war. But if we’re to believe the greatest social-media post of all time, he sure…

Donald’s divine inspiration

23 June 2025 9:43 pm

President Trump appeared in the long hallway Saturday night, flanked by his Three Sons – J.D., Pete and Little Marco…

Against suit shaming

4 March 2025 4:00 am

Most of the people in my feed spent their weekend talking about how ashamed they are of their country. That’s…

Real men go grocery shopping

29 January 2025 2:03 am

A Jesse Watters Fox News segment flashed across my timeline recently, and I took it very personally. In the segment,…

The Covid cabinet

27 December 2024 2:25 am

On March 24, 2020, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya co-published an article in the Wall Street Journal, “Is The Coronavirus As Deadly…

Jaguar and Volvo’s ads are both terrible

24 November 2024 2:14 am

Both Jaguar and Volvo released online marketing campaigns that went extremely viral this week. One was a huge success and…

My World Series of Poker debut

19 August 2024 9:20 pm

I played in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas this summer for the first time. The most common…

There is not going to be a second Civil War

23 December 2023 6:24 am

I have important news for everyone: there is not going to be a second American Civil War. That may be…

The Lone Star State’s new poker boom

6 January 2023 3:53 am

Late on a Sunday night in May of 2022, I found myself playing heads-up poker with a hoodie-wearing small-town Texas high-school…