The Present Age

Steve Bannon already said what Thursday’s speech is for. The only question left is whether ABC, CBS, and NBC hand over the airwaves to deliver it.

Voters are letting chatbots help fill out their ballots. The Trump administration has spent a year making sure it controls what the chatbots say.

Nine years ago, The Onion wrote a fake Trump editorial about infecting every corner of your daily life. He’s since gotten a lot better at it.

There are real criticisms you can make of any politician. Screaming “communism” at boilerplate heat-wave advice probably isn’t one of them.

The wedge on trans people moved exactly where we said it would. The people who gave it cover are still quiet.

A roomful of Giants beat writers just did the accountability journalism the White House press corps keeps deciding it can’t.

The reflecting pool was a corruption story before it was an arrest story. Watch how the wire wrote it down.

How a 'Whitest Kids U' Know' bit went from the Supreme Court to a Channel 5 daytime show, and what the UK is actually doing to people holding cardboard signs.

Everyone calling the Bud Light logo on the White House lawn hypocrisy has the dynamics backward.

The press keeps getting bought. This is the case for a newsletter that can’t be

An 18-year-old said to CBS’s face what the network’s own stars have spent a year only daring to imply.

Republicans built a brand on “f your feelings.” Then the DNC called Stephen Miller ugly, and they found theirs.

CBS just let one of ‘60 Minutes’ best correspondents walk. Alfonsi diagnosed the project on her way out: keep the brand, remove the journalism.

As newspapers disappear and hedge funds hollow out newsrooms, state governments are experimenting with public funding models to preserve accountability reporting.

The students who booed AI at graduation were right. It probably won't matter.

Bezos’s new opinion section has 515 YouTube subscribers. CBS News is at historic ratings lows. The Daily Wire is shedding audience. The billionaires paying for all of it say it doesn’t matter.

You literally cannot win.

The man telling the New York Times he’s sorry he supported Trump is the same man telling his brother last week that white Americans are the real victims.

The dinner was Saturday. By Tuesday afternoon, the FCC was investigating ABC’s licenses and the DOJ had indicted James Comey for a beach photo. The press still won’t say what it’s watching.

Eight years ago, I argued the White House Correspondents’ Dinner should end. The years since have only made the case stronger. And Saturday wasn’t even the worst part.