The meaning of Mehdi Hasan
From our US edition
What does he actually believe?
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Tuesday
Wednesday
Chris Pratt is a role model for other celebrities
From our US edition
The actor doesn’t talk about his political views, so now everyone else is
Monday
Jeffrey Toobin’s Zoom horror show
From our US edition
‘Live by the uh…sword, die by the sword,’ his former interview subject Roger Stone said
Monday
The incredible vanishing World Health Organization
From our US edition
‘Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer’
Tuesday
What’s happening to Jennifer Rubin?
From our US edition
The coronavirus appears to have claimed what remains of the Washington Post writer’s sanity
Friday
Creeping critical race theory in Manhattan’s private schools
From our US edition
‘At the two private schools my sons attend in New York City, a new kind of “education” is now in full force’
Thursday
Bovard: yes, big tech censorship affects election outcomes
From our US edition
‘A growing bipartisan consensus is emerging against the power of the Big Tech companies’
Thursday
Why is the media downplaying the Hunter Biden story?
From our US edition
It’s as if impeachment never happened!
Saturday
The Cockburn prize for most cringeworthy RBG tweet goes to…
From our US edition
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday night caused an instant outpouring of…well, mourning isn’t exactly the right word
Tuesday
Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph’s funeral for satire
From our US edition
Can you parody someone for whose campaign you raised $6 million?
Friday
Sources: Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg weeps in his office ‘all the time’
From our US edition
Goldberg reported Friday that Trump derided fallen soldiers during a 2018 trip to France
Thursday
Emmanuel Macron is a Karen
From our US edition
The French president berated a journalist who dared to try to cover his complicated maneuvers in Lebanon
Welcome to the District of BLMbia
From our US edition
Time’s up for the nation’s capital
Tuesday
What does ‘without evidence’ mean?
From our US edition
A particularly disingenuous new media stock phrase
Monday
Herman Cain, eternal COVID skeptic
From our US edition
The late Republican presidential candidate’s Twitter account describes COVID as ‘not as deadly as the mainstream media first made it out to be’
Tuesday
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of horniness
From our US edition
The downfall of Jerry Falwell Jr
Saturday
Who really wants to delegitimize the election result?
From our US edition
The New York Times wants to save democracy by undermining it
Monday
Steve Bannon’s army of lookalikes
From our US edition
‘Steve Bannon kinda looks like Amy Schumer after applying both the old and male filters’
Saturday
Karlie Kloss, renaissance woman
From our US edition
Jared’s sister-in-law is leading a takeover of W magazine
Wednesday
Ben Shapiro, WAP and the banality of the porn generation
From our US edition
Parents will be listening to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s degrading song ‘WAP’ with their children
