Matt Manochio
The Democratic National Convention kicks off Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. Here is the party’s platform. Democratic National Convention Land Acknowledgement We acknowledge we operate on stolen land originally belonging to Native Americans. We therefore thank the Chicago Blackhawks for…
Mr. Chairman, Former President Trump avoided assassination by the tip of his ear because my agents acted fast. Still, the Secret Service failed the country because not one of the female agents who shielded Trump from bullets scooted up to…
List of Characters Man: a 30-something year-old man attending a gay pride parade. Volunteer: a 30-something year-old male assigned by parade organizers to hand out fliers and paraphernalia along the parade route. The scene: A man watches a pride parade…
The following chapter was cut from South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s recently released autobiography, No Going Back. The chinook’s rotors pumped a distant heartbeat into the South Dakota night. “The cartel. They found me.” I flapped away the bed sheets…
Wikipedia defines “truth” as “being in accord with fact or reality.” That’s why I wanted to redefine truth to be malleable and partisan when I ran Wikipedia. Now that I head NPR, I seek only to promote truth that aligns…
The reversal last week by NBC News of its decision to hire former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel as a political analyst took Republicans by surprise. However, in the wake of McDaniel’s firing, MSNBC host and Director of Diversity,…
Presidential historian Armitage Goodwin is the visiting associate teaching assistant at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson Center for Harmonious Race Relations. Here he explains his recent voting in the prestigious Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey. As a participant in the clunkily…
Journalism experienced one of its darkest days last week when the Los Angeles Times laid off 115 of my fellow left-wing activists, roughly 20 percent of the entire staff. Already the reverberations are being felt in Hollywood, where crucial journalistic…
Johns Hopkins University recently got caught with its hand in the DEI cookie jar when its chief diversity officer, Dr. Sherita H. Golden, in her January 2024 Monthly Diversity Digest newsletter listed “privilege” as the Diversity Word of the Month,…
