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Journalists deserve all the angst

The reelection of Donald Trump has created overwhelming angst among the press. With Trump, they have been like the opposite of the Humpty Dumpty rhyme. The media are all the king’s horses and all the king’s men — and they couldn’t tear Humpty Dumpty apart. All their screeching about his menace only makes him successful. Longtime CBS News correspondent Lesley Stahl engaged in conversation at the 92nd Street Y in New York City with columnist Peggy Noonan, and they both agreed the legacy media are “fraying” — for 20 years, Noonan insisted. “I’m extremely worried about ...

French view of Trump, Macron

Donald Trump gets invited by the desperate Frenchman running the country to celebrate the newly-renovated Notre Dame cathedral — and ends up walking straight into a menage-a-trois with a guy dressed like he got lost while trimming the shrubs. During Trump’s first term, French President Emmanuel Macron fancied himself a “Trump whisperer” — which is really just a more flattering term for “master manipulator” — capable of selling Europe’s ideological-driven idiocy to a more pragmatic, populist Trump. Trump’s backside hadn’t even begun to warm the presidential chair ...

Questions emerging from the polls

One question emerging from the presidential election exit polls is the disconnect between Black men and women and Hispanic men and women. Donald Trump received support from 21% of Black men and 7% of Black women, a disparity of 14 points. He got support from 54% of Hispanic men and 39% of Hispanic women, a disparity of 15 points. There was also a disparity in Trump’s support among white men and women, but much smaller — 7 points. So why is Trump having far greater success among Black and Hispanic men than Black and Hispanic women? It’s clear that the major issue that drove ...

Politics of economic redistribution

Whatever happened to the Democrats’ reputation as the party favoring the working man? Put another way, what happened to the Democrats as the party promising economic redistribution from the rich to the average man? Those are questions that Democrats are asking after Vice President Kamala Harris’ decisive, but not landslide, loss to President-elect Donald Trump. Her economic policies were obviously thin gruel. Her $25,000 payment to first-time homebuyers would be vacuumed up by sellers, her ban on “price gouging” was directed at notoriously competitive grocery chains, and her ...

If we can reelect, we can be honest

En route to visit family in South Texas for Thanksgiving, we stopped in San Antonio to enjoy the riverwalk and take our 9-year-old son to the Alamo. Most kids in America learn the story of the Alamo in history class at some point. If you’re a student in Texas, the state is really particular about how that 1836 battle at the old Spanish Mission (and the rest of Texas history) gets taught. Perhaps this is why I did not find a single mention of slavery on the placards or timelines displayed when we visited. I had suspected as much and came prepared with a copy of the 2021 bestseller ...

What the headlines missed

In a shocking development last week, Amnesty International effectively exonerated Israel of genocide. This was easy to miss, and not just because of the recent crush of news. Amnesty’s report, titled “ ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza,” buried the lede, as journalists say. And most of the media coverage reflected that. The New York Times’ headline read: “Amnesty International Accuses Israel of Genocide in Gaza.” The Los Angeles Times’ was similar: “Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in ...