Author Archives: Bill McCarthy

They Lost. Then They Made Sure You Knew How Unfair That Was.

Losing an election is supposed to be the adult part of politics. You get beat, [...]

Ottawa Wanted a Fight. Bessent Brought a Meter.

Scott Bessent does not do the sympathy tour. On Canada he has been plain: the [...]

The Wrong Number Is the One Everybody’s Quoting

The generic ballot is the political equivalent of a bathroom scale after Thanksgiving. Everybody stares [...]

They Don’t Need a Press Office. They Have Ours.

Scott Bessent stood at the G20 in Asheville and said the quiet part with the [...]

They Handed the Wolf a Phone Book and Called It Healing

A Milwaukee judge looked at a man charged with killing three people and asked the [...]

One Side Wants a Holiday. The Other Wants a Seminar.

Nine days from the twenty-fifth anniversary, a new poll asked the simplest question you can [...]

Ottawa’s New Ask: Please Stop Being Funny

Mark Carney walked to the microphones Tuesday and issued the latest Canadian war aim. Not [...]

Ninety-Six Percent Is Not “Mixed.” It’s a Beatdown.

Kristen Welker told a Washington local hit that Donald Trump has had “some mixed results” [...]

He Didn’t Buy a Brochure. He Bought the Field.

Friday night Trump announced what he called the biggest oil deal in world history: majority [...]

She Posted a Cartoon. They Booked Her a Mosque Tour.

Maggie Litz Domanowski sits on the Baltimore County school board. Over the weekend she shared [...]