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Right-wing media melts down as Spencer Pratt sinks in vote count

Trump administration launched a federal probe as Republicans fall behind in California primaries

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Trump’s intelligence pick sparks rare MAGA media revolt

Many of the president's stalwart allies won't defend his choice of Bill Pulte as director of national intelligence

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Bari Weiss brings Trumpism to “60 Minutes”

CBS News is pushing out dissenters, replacing them with inexperienced hires

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Democrats’ mean tweets trigger Fox News

Trolling Stephen Miller is causing conservative media to feign outrage

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Stephen Colbert gets the last laugh on CBS

CBS filed copyright notices against Colbert's viral "Only in Monroe" comeback. It backfired.

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Hunter Biden, Candace Owens and the power of “the Epstein class”

The right's most hated podcaster keeps growing her audience through controversy

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Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire goes woke with civil rights revisionism

The Daily Wire’s latest documentary seeks to discredit Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott

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Return to reality TV is a bad sign for MAGA

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt are chasing cameras to bypass scrutiny

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Patel promised to come after the media. So far, it’s only been women

The FBI has investigated multiple women journalists who reported on the bureau's director

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How “The View” could put an end to Trump’s war on the media

ABC is finally fighting back against censorship and pressure from the Federal Communications Commission

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Neil Gorsuch’s right-wing book tour blows up in his face

Supreme Court justice’s interviews with friendly media get a cold reception from conservatives

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Axios accused of “market manipulation” with Iran reporting

Journalist Barak Ravid draws range of criticism from Wall Street to Marjorie Taylor Greene

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Trump angers right-wing fans with censorship campaign

As some members of MAGA media begin pushing back against Trump, there may be a limit to his campaign of retribution

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Democrats’ Hasan Piker problem is a boon for Fox News

Leftist streamer becomes litmus test for Democrats — and Fox News’ favorite boogeyman

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Trump makes fools of media with renewed attack on Jimmy Kimmel

The post-Correspondents' Dinner goodwill tour was short-lived — and the press corps should've known better

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WHCD shooting exposed MAGA media’s secret social media operation

The right eerily repeated Trump's ballroom talking points, while the left went straight to conspiracy

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MAGA media gaslights on Charlottesville

The right seizes on indictment to claim white supremacy only exists due to the Southern Poverty Law Center

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Thiel-backed AI project to block bad press looks like a bust

Silicon Valley billionaires can't judge journalism if reporters refuse to buy in

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Conservative publishing is trading politics for piety

From Ann Coulter’s bestsellers to Tucker Carlson’s new imprint, right-wing books have descended into lifestyle slop

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Why Fox News is so mad at Abigail Spanberger

Virginia’s new governor accused of bait-and-switch by right-wing media

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Melania Trump’s Epstein announcement deepens a year of confusion

First lady's surprise announcement adds mystery to scandal White House has struggled to contain

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Trump’s clash with podcasters puts Fox News on notice

As younger voices break from Fox News, the right’s media ecosystem turns on itself

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Trump wants to jail reporters over leaks from own administration

The president says journalists could face imprisonment for reporting on war rescue operations

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The problem with covering extremists

Coverage of figures like Clavicular raises an old question: Does attention inform the public — or empower radicals?

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TMZ turning to Congress is a win for the GOP

Congress getting the tabloid treatment sounds good. But it's more both-sides coverage

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There is no one left to sell Trump’s war

One month into his war of choice with Iran, Donald Trump will finally address the nation on Operation Epic Fury

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Trump wants to punish media for his unpopular war

The president and FCC Chair Brendan Carr are threatening journalists and broadcasters for their Iran coverage

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Lindsey Graham just triggered a MAGA revolt over Iran

Pro-Trump media figures warn the president is trapped in a hawkish echo chamber around the senator

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Right-wing media’s Mamdani outrage fuels GOP anti-Muslim rhetoric

Mike Johnson refuses to condemn Republicans for turning attack at Mamdani’s home into Islamophobic campaign

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Fox News erased fallen soldiers to make Trump look better

The network apologized for airing old footage of Trump at Dover. But it has a pattern of covering for him

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Trump’s cable-news Cabinet tries to sell a war

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Why right-wing media can’t stop Candace Owens

Erika Kirk’s defense of herself gets drowned out by “Bride of Charlie” documentary

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Mainstream media rallies for war, again

Why Donald Trump isn't bothering to make the case for war against Iran

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MAGA blame game shows Trump in retreat

Trump and Vance back down and blame unnamed staffers for controversial posts

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Super Bowl bursts popular right-wing media myth

Conservative commentators and podcast bros backtrack on what they've said about San Francisco

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Kamala Harris’ return fits a degraded media moment

Rebranded as an online organizing hub for Gen Z, Harris HQ reflects our surrender to slop

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Pam Bondi has a Fox News problem

From cable news hits to viral X posts, top DOJ figures are igniting backlash — and exposing deeper dysfunction

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Don Lemon’s arrest turned into a MAGA misfire

Pam Bondi’s track record of prosecuting Trump's revenge is abysmal

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Why MAGA won’t rally for “Melania” documentary

Jeff Bezos' big gamble to impress Trump isn't paying off with fans

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Pam Bondi’s shakedown exposes “Big Lie” in Minneapolis

The attorney general’s voter-roll demand shows how Trump’s 2020 election denial fuels federal coercion and violence

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MAGA angers the NRA over Minneapolis shooting

The Trump administration’s response to killing of Alex Pretti betrays the right’s Second Amendment rhetoric

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Right-wing media silos leave MAGA flailing on ICE

MAGA’s whack-a-mole defense of immigration raids is backfiring

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The resistance to RFK Jr. quietly racks up wins

Accountability reporting is helping reverse health policy and funding shifts tied to the HHS secretary’s agenda

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Fox News defends FBI seizure of Washington Post reporter’s property

The conservative network once decried similar searches as press intimidation under Obama

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White women get in the way of Trump’s war on civil rights

As Trump attempts to implement a white nationalist agenda, liberal white women are fighting back

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Fed Chair Jerome Powell turns whistleblower against Trump

The Justice Department's legal action against Powell for maintaining Fed independence could backfire on Trump

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Tony Dokoupil’s viral first week should worry Bari Weiss

The new CBS Evening News host made headlines for all the wrong reasons

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America First: MAGA wants to be a colonial power

First Venezuela, now Greenland: Trump is promoting an international Manifest Destiny updated for the 21st century

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The mass media’s blind spot on Trump’s Venezuela escalation

Iraq-era mistakes of blind deference by the mainstream press are back

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Trump’s revenge tour leaves MAGA collateral damage

The president's veto of a bipartisan Colorado clean water project is hurting his own voters

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