Author Archives: Bill McCarthy

They Retired the Senator. They Forgot the Last Name.

Jeanne Shaheen is leaving. That was supposed to be the end of the argument in [...]

Democrats Couldn’t Impeach Him. They Just Counted the Hands.

Tuesday night the House did not convict anyone. It did not hold a trial. It [...]

They Built a Kingdom on Sand and Oil. The Missiles Found Both.

Saudi Arabia is a country. It has borders, a flag, a seat at the table, [...]

Don’t Come to Him With Free Speech. He Already Has a Word for That.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told a room of science kids in Berlin on Tuesday not [...]

They Brought the Binders. He Brought the Body Count.

Kash Patel sat in the Hart Building this morning and did the thing Washington hates. [...]

They Took the Check. Now They Don’t Get the Next One.

Kansas City, Monday. The vice president stood up and said the quiet part with a [...]

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 [...]