James Taranto

Journalistic bias has traditionally been a matter of groupthink. “For decades liberal media elites were able to define current debates…

There are almost as many Helen Thomas awards in journalism as there are Robert C. Byrd federal buildings in West…

The first week in October saw a stunning turnabout in coverage of Barack Obama. Pro-Obama coverage might have hit its…

By the time readers of the New York Times met Van Jones, the Obama administration’s so-called green-jobs czar, he had…

Are you running for something?” Richard Nixon asked Dan Rather at a March 1974 press conference. “No, sir, Mr. President,”…

THE BAD NEWS CAME in an Associated Press dispatch July 8 titled “PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama Tax Pledge Unrealistic.” Candidate Barack…

It’s too early to tell if the anti-tax-and-spend “tea party” movement will fizzle or develop into a serious opposition to…

It appeared in the April 1 edition, but otherwise there was no reason to think David Leonhardt’s New York Times…

Throughout George W. Bush’s second term, journalists puzzled over why, even after opinion polls showed Americans to have soured on…

What do Maureen Dowd, Thomas Friedman, Paul Krugman, and Muammar Qaddafi have in common? All of them write for the…