James Taranto

THE WRITER of this Associated Press headline, appearing the week before the Republican National Convention in August, was either witty…

ONE OF THE MOST UNUSUAL ASPECTS of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding Obamacare was the speed with which journalists…

POLITICS MAKES STRANGE BEDFELLOWS. Just ask Rand Paul and Tina Brown. Two days after President Obama made the dramatic yet…

Linda Greenhouse is something of an institution of legal journalism. She became the New York Times’s Supreme Court correspondent in…

Last month in this space I discussed the New York Times editorial page’s enthusiastic support for the Obama administration’s birth-control…

New York Times editorials are often worth reading—stop laughing, I’m serious!—because they provide a window into the mindset of the…

Hilarity ensued in mid-january after Arthur Brisbane, “public editor” of the New York Times, posted a blog entry titled “Should…

Because my deadline for this column is two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, I can only guess at the shape…

Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times was dazzled when he visited Occupy Wall Street in early October. “The protest…

At 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001, terrorists destroyed a hijacked plane by crashing it into the north tower of…