Despite his cluelessness, the former president's inclination to punish constitutionally protected speech reflects his authoritarian disregard for civil liberties.
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The co-host of Gutfeld! talks about how everyone should reject binary thinking.
Nina Jankowicz finds out the truth may hurt, but it isn’t lawsuit bait.
The reaction to Ramzan Daraev’s death is an extreme example of anti-immigrant panic and national security paranoia.
About 20 years ago, many American bees did die. Then that steadily diminished—but hysteria in the press continued.
The same tactics used to justify drone strikes are now being used to demonize immigrant men.
Plus: an unexpected digression into the world of Little Debbie dessert snack cakes.
Too bad that was only a small part of the 90-minute affair.
Plus: A listener question about the continued absurdity of sports stadium subsidies
It's no mystery why the former president preferred a forum in which his record and positions would face no serious challenge.
How cable TV transformed politics—and how politics transformed cable TV
Eager for the adulation of Trump supporters, the former Fox News host suggests that rigged election software delivered a phony victory to Joe Biden.
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The You Can't Joke About That author says that free speech and dark humor can bring a fragmented country together.
If so, the network failed to enforce the supposed rule before and after cancelling its top-rated host.
The controversial host launches his effort at a promising moment for dissident voices.
Enjoy a special video episode recorded live from New York City’s illustrious Comedy Cellar at the Village Underground.
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The network has abruptly parted ways with one of its biggest stars.
I have more reason than most to cheer his departure from Fox News. But it's unlikely to significantly diminish the problem of political misinformation, which is driven by demand more than supply.
Critics argue that excessively strict pleading standards prevent plaintiffs with meritorious defamation claims from obtaining the evidence they need to support them.
The 1964 Supreme Court decision New York Times Co. v. Sullivan makes it more difficult for public figures to prove defamation—but as we saw this week, not impossible.
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"The truth matters," says Dominion Voting Systems, and "lies have consequences."
Pretrial rulings recognized the falsity of the election-fraud claims that the outlet aired and rejected three of its defenses.
Video footage and arrest data indicate that most of the Trump supporters who invaded the building did not commit violent crimes.
Contrary to the Supreme Court's First Amendment precedents, Donald Trump thinks harsh criticism of the president should be actionable.
In an interview, Chris Stirewalt contends that Fox is "not…willing to suffer the consequences of being a news organization."
Although Rupert Murdoch admits that Lou Dobbs and other hosts "endorsed" the "stolen election" narrative, Fox's lawyers insist that is not true.
Many Democrats and Republicans were outraged when Trump and Biden respectively were found with classified documents. But both sides are missing the point.
The Fox Business host stood out as a champion of the baroque conspiracy theory that implicated Dominion Voting Systems in election fraud.
Major Fox talk show hosts knew that Trump's claims of a stolen election were false, but chose not to say so on air, for fear it would anger their audience.
Erasing sincere disagreement doesn't make it go away.
Hosts and producers privately called Trump lawyer Sidney Powell's claims "complete bs," "insane," and "unbelievably offensive."
The journalist has taken a great deal of flack—from both sides.
Newspapers deserve a great deal of credit for the expansion of freedom over the past 200 years. But the media have lost credibility.
"One of the things that the left and right have in common is an awareness that our government has essentially been co-opted by corporate power," says the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist.
The millennial news site called them hypocrites, but Greg Gutfeld and Kat Timpf have a long history of advocating drug legalization.
"The kind of values I've always embraced are heard more on Fox than on CNN and MSNBC, where they're not welcome."
''The kind of values I've always embraced are heard more on Fox than on CNN and MSNBC," says the Pulitzer Prize–winning progressive journalist.
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The decision allows Smartmatic to proceed with its defamation lawsuit against Fox, two anchors, and Rudy Giuliani.
We seem to be entering a new era of yellow journalism, in which ad hominem attacks and conspiracy-mongering are more valued than truth and accuracy.
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Extolling the virtues of Viktor Orbán's culture war over a sumptuous meal in Budapest is next-level cognitive dissonance.
The Fox News pundit’s emails were probably reviewed legally—and that’s part of the problem.
Don’t call yourself a supporter of the First Amendment while attempting to punish a media outlet for criticizing you.
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