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Former RNC chairman Michael Steele is "disappointed" in the direction of the GOP, but won't say whether he'll vote for its presidential nominee.

By Dan Rodricks

Aug 23, 2016

The cultural left has disengaged from mainstream political arguments, preferring instead the comforts of identity-politics, says Jonah Goldberg.

On Out There with Thomas Roberts, Kristin Beck said she thinks "we need a lot more voices just of the people" in Congress, saying professional politicians like Hoyer "lose touch" when they've been in office for decades.

Former CBS News correspondent Eric Engberg followed his blistering Facebook post on Saturday about Bill O'Reilly with an appearance Sunday on CNN's "Reliable Sources."

By David Zurawik

Feb 22, 2015

Susan Reimer on how Jon Stewart changed the news, unpacking politics and current events for us while exposing pundits and politicians for the naked emperors they were.

By Susan Reimer

Feb 12, 2015

Politicians and their ideological media counterparts use the normal cycles of the seasons to promote "climate change."

Without cigarette taxes, Eric Garner would be alive today, period, writes Jonah Goldberg.

The national media, on the right and left, has an insatiable desire for story lines so clear-cut they might as well be allegories. The problem is that life isn't allegorical. It's messy.

Fox and CNN were the channels most Americans turned to Monday night for coverage of Ferguson.

By David Zurawik

Nov 25, 2014

As of late last Friday afternoon — when a Republican-led House committee admitted that disgraceful Republicans in Congress wasted two years and millions of taxpayer dollars investigating a Benghazi scandal largely of their own invention — conservatives desperately need to divert America's attention.

By Thomas F. Schaller

Nov 25, 2014

Brown's loss was a complete repudiation of Maryland's governor

There is more media than ever covering American political life. And with each major election, the coverage seems to get worse ¿ or, at least, more confused and misguided.

By David Zurawik

Nov 5, 2014

When it comes to getting information on politics and government, Fox News has a far greater hold on conservatives than any single media outlet has on liberals.

By David Zurawik

Oct 21, 2014

The Hospital and Health Department are prepared for Ebola, however unlikely it might be

We are citizens of a country where the fear of black men is downright viral.

One man's "just war" is another's ethnic cleansing. Do the Palestinians have no natural right to defend themselves from the onslaught of Israel's military, from 50 years of occupation, death, poverty and despair? What is to happen to them when Israel's "just war" is over?

The grisly discovery Monday of the bodies of three Israeli teens who had been abducted June 12 as they hitchhiked home from a West Bank settlement yeshiva set off a week of mounting violence in the region.

Out-of-state groups are pumping last-minute cash into the Maryland attorney general's race, fueling a barrage of campaign ads including $240,000 in TV commercials purchased by a Florida-based fund that won't reveal its donors.

Bongino: Sun's left-wing views are making print media irrelevant

It was almost like old times last week watching CNN¿s wall-to-wall coverage of the Veterans Affairs scandal story.

The thing I love about PBS "Frontline" is its willingness to call out people in power in American life.

Kid Cruz co-owners Steven Brandt and Ric Boylan wonder: "Would we be the first openly gay couple to win a classic race?"

The board of directors of the state's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy organization has put its money where its mouth is when it comes to raising funds to defend the transgender protections legislation that passed the General Assembly this legislative session.

Despite the sneers of MSNBC hosts and the disdainful manner of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, Benghazi matters. And it matters in ways we don't yet even understand -- deep, fractious ways that reveal a major front in the culture war almost no one seems to understand or want to even talk about.

I had a chance to weigh in on the troubles of "Meet the Press" and its host, David Gregory, today on Howie Kurtz's "Media Buzz."

Advocates in Maryland who backed the successful passage of the first statewide legal protections for transgender citizens in housing, employment and public accommodations this legislative session don't consider their work complete.

A look at one slice of original and unique content on Al Jazeera America

Romney was right about Russia

CNN's pivot to less news-talk and more documentary series in prime time got off to a mixed start with the debut of "Chicagoland" Thursday night.

Documentaries were supposed to be a dying genre -- and living proof that we were becoming dumber as a nation.