Chuck Schumer was comfortably re-elected as Senate Minority Leader yesterday by the Democratic caucus, but a stunning New York Times exposé of Facebook reveals that he attempted to impede investigations into the tech giant. The story, which runs about 5,000 words and carries ...read more
A few weeks ago, Real Time host Bill Maher invited Steve Bannon onto his show, after he was disinvited from the New Yorker Festival. The interview was criticized by the left, just as Bannon's recent appearance in The Economist's festival and his documentary with Errol Morris, ...read more
The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill's online news publication, makes no bones about its contempt for the Democratic Party. Stocked with writers critical of the party's dominant centrist wing, the publication has become a thorn in its side, as its articles emphasize ...read more
The Banter Long Read: You may remember the name Elizabeth Lee Beck from a New York Times story in 2015. She and her husband were questioning Donald Trump in a deposition and she left in the middle to use her breast pump to feed her child. (Word count: 1231) To continue reading ...read more
The New York Times rocked America's world this weekend by coming out in favor of legalizing marijuana, and NBC News' Meet the Press celebrated by convening a panel made up of more squares than you can shake a Paul Lynde at (that reference was for the members of MTP's panel, who ...read more
One of the most astute comments you'll read in response to the recent revival of the Woody Allen sex assault controversy is from a guy named Chris Rasmussen. In a letter to the New York Times' Public Editor Margaret Sullivan, Rasmussen, who's an associate professor at Fairleigh ...read more
Here's what you should be reading this morning. Why? Why the hell not? Beats starting at the clock waiting for the weekend to begin. 1. Up Yours Alec Baldwin officially has a show on MSNBC. It's called "Up Late" -- not to be confused with "Up," "All In" or any of the other ...read more
Unfortunately, you can probably set your watches and begin the countdown to the cries of "white privilege" showing up in the comment section or getting aimed at me on Twitter, but here goes nothing: There isn't a thing wrong grammatically or journalistically with the term ...read more
