While federal inaction and even regression on climate is distressing, some state attorneys general are pushing forward for accountability.

It would be easy for even a diligent news consumer to not know that climate change is one of the central factors driving refugees to cross the border, since it’s usually not mentioned at all in most alarmist reports about the so-called “border crisis.”

Elite outlets are not the first place to look for a serious understanding of fast-moving but deeply rooted events in Puerto Rico, where massive popular protests have just led to the resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rossello.

Election Focus 2020: Thomas Edsall is playing a shell game—lumping self-identified black and white “moderates” and “conservatives” together, even though they have very different policy preferences, and then using the amalgamated opinion to generalize a...

There is no clearer indication of the Western media’s growing disillusionment than the gradual demotion of Juan Guaído from “interim president” to “National Assembly president” or “opposition leader.”

"So much of this language protects Trump and others who use it, by making ambiguous what is really not that ambiguous."

"In contrast to Oregon's reputation as a sort of liberal hippie paradise, the state actually has incredibly weak campaign finance laws. So, for example, there are no limits on what corporations and individuals can contribute to candidates."

The upshot for many seems to be that to beat Trump, Democrats should run someone as much like him as possible, and must on no account run a "nontraditional" candidate, no matter how excited people are about them.

"What we have is a media...where reality is determined by who holds the most social power. If you can harangue the media enough, criticize the media enough, they will adopt the language that you use. And it’s especially the right that has gamed this sy...

Election Focus 2020: "The people who tend to win out when you remove these forms of balancing tend to be white, entrenched majorities. This didn’t come out of nowhere. These folks have been fighting for years. And it's pretty nasty stuff, quite frankly."