Author Archives: Bill McCarthy
They Flunked Reading. So the State Flunked the Test.
New York discovered a large share of would-be teachers could not clear a basic literacy [...]
Sep
He Made a Villain List. It’s a Product Catalog.
Bernie Sanders looked at a state dinner and saw ten oligarchs. He posted the scoreboard: [...]
Sep
They Built a Second Welfare State. The First One Was Too Legal.
Federal law says illegal aliens do not get full Medicaid. California read that sentence as [...]
Sep
He Called Them Parasites. Then He Read Them the Minutes.
Wednesday Javier Milei took the green marble for the third straight year and did not [...]
Sep
We Want a Phone for When the Computer Starts a War.
The original red line was not a metaphor. After Cuba, Washington and Moscow strung a [...]
Sep
They Changed the Recipe Mid-Flight. They Never Called It a Confession.
The claim making the rounds is neat: European officials finally admitted the shots were not [...]
Sep
They Mapped the Speaker’s Phone and Called It Justice.
The Constitution put a wall between the men who write the laws and the men [...]
Sep
Someone Voted to Put the Suspect on the Credentials Committee.
Iran was not “added to the IAEA.” It has been a member since 1958. What [...]
Sep
He Told the Room There Is No World Government. Then He Told Iran There Are Two Doors.
Tuesday he took the General Assembly podium for thirty-seven minutes and treated it like a [...]
Sep
He Quit on Tuesday. By Wednesday He Was the Apocalypse.
Jacob Coxon is twenty-seven, British, and as of last week the man who told America [...]
Sep