“Lie” is a great word. It’s a short, to-the-point noun with a universally agreed upon meaning that we all learn…

Our old pal Alex Pareene has it right, of course: The New York Times, despite its pose as the one universal press…

I have not been a regular reader of the Times’s Ross Douthat since the 2016 presidential campaign, and I was not a…

In case you were busy actually enjoying your weekend, Jordan Peterson celebrity cruise attendant Bret Stephens went…

There is no other way to say it: Le Anne Schreiber was a titan of journalism.

If you’re familiar with catastrophically incompetent Republican politics and PR doofus Liz Mair at all, first of all…

The New York Times’ opinion section published an extraordinary piece today. What’s extraordinary is not the content,…

In my time as a journalist, stories about child abuse have always been the one genre that everyone, even internet…

Two days ago, video was posted online that pretty much everyone who saw immediately recognized for what it…

The sort of celebrity profile that opens with an anecdote set in a restaurant or hotel room is more or less always…

As of this year, all 30 MLB teams now have protective netting that extends at least to the ends of the dugouts, a…

Amphibians, as every little kid knows, are born in water, as larvae, breathing water through gills. Later they…

Hello, hi, yes, hello. We’ve all seen this, right? This story in the New York Fucking Times about the Pentagon’s $22…

If there was one thing the ongoing Colin Kaepernick unemployment saga really needed, it was a flaccid,…

In the abstract, David Brooks’s choice to begin today’s Times column about the assorted Trump/Russia investigations…

I mean obviously the first and most important point is: Mazel tov! After a few years of harrowing personal crisis…

New York Times public editor Liz Spayd wrote an exceptionally stupid column this weekend criticizing the newspaper’s…

On Sunday, Frank Bruni dedicated his New York Times op-ed column to the way Donald Trump eats steak. This is not the…

Can you imagine telling an inequality-wracked world that we might not want to take away a billionaire’s money?…

Let’s talk about fake news. Are you excited? I am! (Actually I’m not. That claim was fake news.)