James Taranto

IT WAS early may, and the president was riding high. Politico reported: “Killing Osama bin Laden isn’t just an important…

The so-called mainstream media are unreliable defenders of press freedom. A case in point: the Los Angeles Times in July…

“Let me introduce you to Jerome Corsi,” read the promotional e-mail. “This week he released a new book that the…

The New York Times erected its long-awaited online paywall in late March. In theory, that means you can no longer…

Remember when the New York Times was lecturing us about “civility”? Neither do I, but I wrote about it recently…

The editors of the New York Times must have been happy to get some “conservative” support for their smear campaign…

After the horrific shooting spree, the editorial board of the New York Times offered a voice of reasoned circumspection: “In…

WHAT WENT WRONG? How did Barack Obama lose Middle America? As Time magazine’s Mark Halperin wrote on December 6, five…

Juan Williams surely didn’t mean to slander Christians when he disputed Bill O’Reilly’s assertion that “Muslims killed us on 9/11.”…

Terry Jones, an eccentric Florida pastor, announced in July that he planned to burn a stack of Korans on the…