Author Archives: Bill McCarthy

He Needed the Sentence. The Record Did Not Need the Sentence.

Six days after nineteen men turned airliners into weapons, the president stood at a mosque [...]

They Lost the Voters. So Now They Want the Court.

Germany did not hold a national election last Sunday. It held a state election in [...]

They Emptied an Island in Nine Hours

Dunkirk took nine days to pull 338,226 soldiers off a beach in 1940. On September [...]

He Called the Other One a Grift. Then He Sold You the Repair Shop.

First, Hunter Biden did not launch a stablecoin. He launched a meme coin. Those are [...]

He Billed Grandma for a Catheter She Never Got. Then He Left.

The name on the indictment is Erekle Gugava. Thirty-three. Citizen of Georgia — the country, [...]

They Gave the System a 32. The System Should Not Get Another Decade.

A new national poll just put a number on what parents have been muttering in [...]

They Can Empty ICE at 2 A.M. They Can’t Ask for a Birth Certificate at Noon.

The question sounds like a riddle. On March 27, in the middle of the night, [...]

They Booked a Hyatt to Abolish the Country

While normal people grilled something over Labor Day, about three thousand of them packed the [...]

They Don’t Need a Newspaper When They Have Two Hundred Phones

City Hall built a press list that does not call itself a press list. It [...]

The Barrel Got Cheaper. The Gallon Didn’t Get the Memo.

The rumor going around is tidy. Crude is forty dollars a barrel cheaper than it [...]