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…
From the moment I wake up until my first sip of coffee, I am a combination of whimsical influencer and Osama Bin Laden. My saving grace is that I try not to communicate with anyone, except for the odd grunt,…
Traveling today is as stressful as a TikTok influencer writing a résumé. Between the freedom-depleting regulations of the TSA and the joys of air travel itself, one must prepare carefully. Add a severe disability into the mix, and the stress…
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:…
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…
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…
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,…
