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 [...]

Twelve Dollars and a Birth Certificate

Xavier Becerra has a story he tells when he wants the room. His parents came [...]

The Planes Left Before the Tankers Were Ready

On Sunday the United States pulled every B-1 bomber off a British airfield and sent [...]

The Warning Was Filed. The Contract Was Renewed.

Twenty years ago the intelligence services looked at a voting-machine company founded by Venezuelan engineers, [...]

They Had the Briefing. They Kept the Stockbroker.

Every Senate Democrat voted on Wednesday to keep a member of Congress free to buy [...]

The Statute Fell. The Requirement Did Not.

A federal judge in Miami ruled Thursday that Congress had no power to make it [...]

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 [...]

She Stopped the Pipe. Then She Wrote Washington.

On Thursday the governor of Massachusetts asked the president she has spent three years blaming [...]

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 [...]

Two Books Cannot Govern One Street

The men who want the House back in November have a drawer full of issues [...]