Alex Pareene

7/3/18

Haim Saban Is Bad For Democracy

Last month, twelve Democratic senators signed a letter from the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders to Secretary of State…

Congress

Jeff Flake Gave the Game Away

But what do you expect them to do, exactly? goes the usual refrain when one points out the uselessness of supposedly…

6/28/18

Good News: The Supreme Court Just Lost Its Conservative Majority

After joining the majority on a raft of right-wing decisions aimed at crippling organized labor, abortion access,…

Elections

Sticking With Bob Menendez Was Stupid, Pointless, and Damaging

Congrats to the Democratic Party for ceding the moral authority to make corruption a campaign issue, all to protect…

Congress

Chuck Schumer Is Not Cutting It

I’m not sure there’s a better possible illustration of “not up to the challenges of the political moment” than…

5/18/18

Hero Cop Does Right Thing

Here is a tweet from the official account of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, one of the major unions…

5/11/18

If Good Reporting Was In Any Way Useful to Conservatives, They'd Already Be Doing It

Ben Howe, a longtime conservative media veteran and former Red State contributor (until the site’s owners purged the…

4/27/18

The Political Chess Game That Made the Staten Island Ferry Free

If you’re visiting New York, you really ought to ride the ferry to Staten Island. You can’t find a better free…

4/19/18

If We Had a Liberal Media We Wouldn't Have Had a Paul Ryan

Farewell, Paul Ryan, you smirking fraud. Thank you for fucking off back to Wisconsin, to be with your family, at…

4/6/18

Scott Pruitt Is Mostly the Same Kind of Corrupt as Everyone Else, Just a Little More So

Scott Pruitt is crooked. This is inarguable, or at least it would be if so many people weren’t professionally or…

3/21/18

If You Want to Expose More Cambridge Analyticas, It's Time to Rehabilitate the Sting

There has been a tremendous amount of good reporting done on Cambridge Analytica, the shady political consulting…

3/8/18

If You Truly Care About Speech, You Will Invite Me to Your Office to Personally Call You a Dipshit

Civil society requires the toleration of the expression of opposing viewpoints, no matter how personally…

2/26/18

New York Times Editorial Page Editor: I Lack an Important Qualification for This Job

Vanity Fair’s Joe Pompeo today reports on the torrent of criticism, both external and internal, that the New York…

2/22/18

Of Course Smart Teens Are Better at Grilling Politicians Than Reporters

As Senator Marco Rubio was grilled by teens last night, scores of actual professional journalists asked themselves…

2/16/18

Whatever Happened to Honest Graft?

Last week, The Intercept’s Lee Fang and Spencer Woodman published a story about how the family of U.S. Secretary of…

2/15/18

When Prohibition Works

One fun fact about America’s endless war on drugs is that there is one—really only one—success story: Quaaludes.

1/30/18

Stop Doing the State of the Union Response Live

Everyone agrees that delivering the official opposition party response to the State of the Union address is a…

1/12/18

Democrats Condemned Trump's Language and Signed on to His Policy

This week, Senators Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., went to the White House to discuss immigration…

12/28/17

Tom Steyer Has Too Much Money

Billionaire hedge funder Tom Steyer has been a major Democratic Party donor for many years. One thing that happens…

12/26/17

Some Suggested New Places to Send Reporters to Interview Trump Voters

Sure are lots of reporters going out and interviewing Trump voters in places where Trump won. Looks like that’s…

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