Arizona senator Ruben Gallego (D.) is in the news—and here’s what you need to know: The aspiring 2028 presidential candidate is either deaf, dumb, and blind or a degenerate liar. There’s really no other possible explanation for his supporting role in the saga of Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.). Gallego was Swalwell’s Capitol Hill roommate and
The Arizona Democrat also wanted his ex-wife, Kate Gallego, to pay his attorney’s fees Ruben Gallego/ Getty Images Ruben Gallego may have been in a tight Senate race in the fall of 2024, but the media didn’t seem interested in the bizarre circumstances of his 2017 divorce. The Washington Free Beacon, however, was. The Free
A new database of all the New York Times articles published in the past 25 years provides empirical evidence of some of the biases that many of the newspaper’s critics have long suspected. The developer of the database, Ted Alcorn, is not a media critic but a former policy analyst for New York Mayor Michael
Results of Central European parliamentary elections rarely make much news in the United States, but Viktor Orbán’s defeat certainly did. The Hungarian prime minister conceded Sunday after ruling for 16 years, and many wonder if the result predicts the downfall of Donald Trump’s populism the same way that the 2016 Brexit vote foretold his shocking
Students are receiving death threats and being “told to kill themselves” at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after a satirical April Fools’ article in the student newspaper and a comedy video caused an uproar over their mockery of immigration, race, and class issues on an easily triggered campus. University officials fiercely denounced
“Never just read one newspaper” is one of my media literacy rules. Sometimes even that fails, as it did on Monday April 13, 2026, when the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both weighed in with suspiciously similar, and sadly unskeptical, stories claiming that the Iran war somehow provided vindication for China’s emphasis
Few believe the Arizona senator’s claim to have been ‘shocked’ by allegations against his ‘closest friend in Congress’ Sen. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) is taking heat after a sexual misconduct scandal forced his good friend, California Democrat Eric Swalwell, to suspend his campaign for governor and resign from Congress. “An important question everyone should be