Matt Manochio
Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will release a book titled Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines on Oct. 21, detailing her time in the Biden White House. The American Spectator has obtained an…
editor’s note: The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg recently published an article describing how Trump administration officials somehow included him on a Signal chain of text messages that included plans to attack Houthi terrorists. But Goldberg himself mistakenly emailed the following…
Test your Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) knowledge with this multiple-choice quiz. One answer is correct. The quiz is based on reports of what Elon Musk and his merry band of tech nerds have uncovered. 1. In 2023, the National…
Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement last week that he will end third-party fact checking at Facebook and Instagram inspired this essay from a distraught fact-checker, Karl Barnstine. Barnstine (he/they) is a senior intern fact-checker at the Jayson Blair Institute of Truth. As…
Politics, law, education, and culture ran four-way stop signs simultaneously to detonate a mushroom cloud known as 2024. The highlights are apparent, but you may have forgotten some lesser-known events. Here’s a recap of the year’s most consequential stories. January:…
My fellow Armenians, When I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice League’s ability to prosecute my political enemies. I kept my promise. But my son’s criminality is a different matter. Look, folks, I gave you…
Setting: A tuxedo-clad Donald Trump cradles a calico cat while sitting behind an oak desk in a replica Oval Office in Mar-a-Lago. Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski stand before him. Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., flank the room’s…
Editor’s Note: Barack Obama, who served as the 44th President of the United States, spoke at a post-election gathering of black voters. Matt Manochio of The American Spectator was present and submits this transcript of Obama’s brutally honest speech. African…
60 Minutes finally released the transcript of CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker’s interview with Kamala Harris. Now we know why the network hesitated. One-on-One With Kamala Harris Whitaker: Hello, Madam Vice President. I’d like to ask you — Harris: I…
