It started last month with the decision of Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of the Los Angeles Times, not to endorse a candidate in the race for U.S. president. This move not only surprised many longtime readers of the reliably far-left daily,…
One of the big kerfuffles in women’s sports right now is only tangentially about sports. It’s mostly about race. It involves, also tangentially, Caitlin Clark, the sharpshooting basketball phenom for the University of Iowa who is tearing through college records…
It looks as though the citizens of Los Angeles, the legendary traffic capital of America, the place that gifted us freeway gridlock and smog, the “spaghetti bowl” of freeways and the parking lot that is “the 405 Freeway,” will vote…
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…
WASHINGTON — If the Washington Post treated itself the way it treats conservatives, it would call itself the “liberal Washington Post.” The newspaper’s story on the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay repeatedly referred to her critics as “conservative,” GOP…
Joe Biden’s press conference this week made news beyond the ways that press conferences normally, by design, make news. The press may love this man. This man does not love the press. Biden, who met the press jointly this week…
It was inevitable that in the midst of a full-bore attempt to reorder America in accordance with social-justice objectives, America’s left-leaning mainstream media would commemorate Independence Day by trying to shoot down absolutely everything that makes Americans love their country….
In Ayn Rand’s bestselling screed against the evils of bureaucracy, Atlas Shrugged, the nation’s infrastructure collapses as political hacks and regulators exert ever more control. In one of the book’s best-known scenes (outside of John Galt’s absurd 60-page radio diatribe),…
In 1990, David Shaw of the Los Angeles Times published a study confirming the pro-abortion bias of the mainstream media. Shaw was a prominent media critic at the time and his story caused a big splash. He noted that “most…
