Author Archives: Bill McCarthy
They Logged the Lawyer. They Did Not Need the Words.
From at least February through May of 2023, agents working for Jack Smith kept a [...]
Oct
Twelve Dollars and a Birth Certificate
Xavier Becerra has a story he tells when he wants the room. His parents came [...]
Oct
The Planes Left Before the Tankers Were Ready
On Sunday the United States pulled every B-1 bomber off a British airfield and sent [...]
Oct
The Warning Was Filed. The Contract Was Renewed.
Twenty years ago the intelligence services looked at a voting-machine company founded by Venezuelan engineers, [...]
Oct
They Had the Briefing. They Kept the Stockbroker.
Every Senate Democrat voted on Wednesday to keep a member of Congress free to buy [...]
Oct
The Statute Fell. The Requirement Did Not.
A federal judge in Miami ruled Thursday that Congress had no power to make it [...]
Oct
The Paycheck Did Not Stop When the Campaign Started
Abdul El-Sayed resigned as Wayne County’s health director on April 3, 2025, and announced for [...]
Oct
She Stopped the Pipe. Then She Wrote Washington.
On Thursday the governor of Massachusetts asked the president she has spent three years blaming [...]
Oct
The Lead Is Two Points. His Own Poll Says Three the Other Way.
Thirty-two days from Election Day, the public polls in the Texas Senate race sit inside [...]
Oct
Two Books Cannot Govern One Street
The men who want the House back in November have a drawer full of issues [...]
Oct