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May 11, 2021

Some problems are mounting, but a majority see America on the right track

Taken together, a series of polls certainly don’t suggest that President Biden is off to a terrible start

May 7, 2021

Republicans face dueling narratives, aimed at the next election—or the last one

Donald Trump is largely fixated on 2020. Once the Liz Cheney melodrama dies down, Republican politicians will still face a stark choice: 2020 or 2022?

May 6, 2021

Facebook ban remains, but somehow Trump is still driving the news

It’s become a common refrain that the maestro of Mar-a-Lago is fading as a media presence in the Biden era. But Trump is still dominating the news.

May 5, 2021

Liz Cheney becomes lightning rod, battling Trump over who’s lying about 2020

Donald Trump has decided that the Liz Cheney is the personification of what ails the GOP — most notably, her all-out opposition to Trump and Trumpism — and she has become the leader of the GOP resistance

May 4, 2021

Buzzkill: Why we’re not beating, and may never fully conquer, this virus

It looks like our collective efforts are destined to fall short, and COVID-19 will not be fully vanquished.

May 3, 2021

Media's false Giuliani accusation

Guests: Guy Benson, Liz Claman, Kevin Corke, Hogan Gidley, Steve Krakauer

April 28, 2021

Biden’s low-energy speech pushes costly agenda but doesn’t change the conversation  

Biden’s point at the traditional media luncheon, before he went off the record, was that he was responding to the Covid emergency on the fly. But if that explains the $2-trillion law he passed with only Democratic votes, the next two bills—totaling over $4 trillion—clearly reflect a sweeping liberal agenda and Democratic wish list. And the new president’s job, in a House chamber with a sparse, socially distant crowd, was to sell it. And, in his low-key fashion, he tried.

April 28, 2021

Boring is better? Media embrace low-key Biden while missing the drama 

As Joe Biden prepares to deliver his first address to Congress tonight, the question is whether the country is relatively satisfied with a laid-back leader who’s often out of sight.

April 27, 2021

Why Kevin McCarthy, despite GOP infighting, has a strong chance of being speaker

Kevin McCarthy is upbeat about his chances of becoming House speaker

April 23, 2021

Media cheer Biden climate speech, but will it turn out to be hot air?

It’s pretty clear that the press is rooting not just for action to reduce global warming but for Biden’s extremely ambitious goal.