Author Archives: Bill McCarthy

He Found a Democrat. It Only Took a Football Picture.

Karl Rove told a private lunch in Austin he is voting for a Democrat. The [...]

They Wanted a Conversation. The Assignment Was Three Dead Children.

A criminal trial has one job. Did she do it with a mind the law [...]

They Are Not a Quarter of Sweden. They Were Enough.

Sweden is not 25 percent Muslim. Repeat it until the chain email dies. The country [...]

They Needed a Lynching. The Autopsy Said No.

Two members of Congress looked at hanging deaths and reached for 1931. Strange fruit. Racial [...]

They Put the Supercomputer Next to the Meter. Then They Wondered Why November Showed Up.

It did not become a midterm issue because America suddenly enrolled in a seminar on [...]

The Names Were Being Read. The Camera Found a Grin.

Ground Zero on the twenty-fifth anniversary is not a cocktail hour. It is a list. [...]

Eleven Votes for a Story. One Vote for Three Kids.

Lindsay Clancy strangled her children in the basement in January 2023. Cora was five. Dawson [...]

He Lost the Primary. So He Held a Press Conference About Estrogen.

Al Green is leaving. Redistricting ate his old seat. He jumped into another Houston district, [...]

They Built a Midterm Convention Because the Midterm Wouldn’t Build Itself.

Dallas was not a nominating convention. Nobody left with a running mate. They left with [...]

Five Grand If You Keep the Building. The Fine Print Is the Building.

Wednesday night in Dallas he made it simple. If Republicans keep the House and the [...]