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Prominent right-wing or right-leaning media operations are hemorrhaging money and viewers, but according to a breakdown of the situation from The New Republic, the billionaires keeping the lights on at these companies still do not care.In a piece published Friday morning, veteran media reporter Parker Molloy gave an overview of the woes currently besetting these more high-profile media operations. CBS News, recently taken over by conservative columnist Bari Weiss and reshaped into a much more MAGA-friendly mold, is bleeding viewer

During their high-stakes meeting in Beijing this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly asked US President Donald Trump if the two countries could overcome the “Thucydides trap”.This phrase, popularised by contemporary US political scientist Graham Allison in the early 2010s, is used to describe how two countries can drift toward war when an existing superpower feels anxious about an emerging one. Allison had China and the US in

Talk of a “super El Niño” developing in 2026 is gaining momentum, with concerns rising that this climate pattern could bring extreme rainfall, heat, drought and destructive flooding around the world.The signals appear to be in place: The tropical Pacific is warming along the equator, and computer models point toward extreme conditions by the end of the year.However, forecasting El Niño is not li

In three presidential elections in a row, Donald Trump campaigned on a platform of hardcore American First isolationism. One of his American First positions has been a vehement opposition to citizens of China buying U.S. farmland. But Trump has reversed that position, and on X, the change is drawing angry reactions from American First proponents.Posting video of Trump in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, the

For a year, White House counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka promoted the national strategy he was drafting, saying he was pouring his “life’s work” into a “massive” blueprint that would overhaul the U.S. approach to combating terrorist threats.The finished product, released May 6 after months of delays, is a 16-page, typo-sprinkled document that ranks threats based on politics rather than intell

In one of his final shows before The Late Show ends on May 21, Colbert opened by noting he had only five episodes remaining. He then pivoted to criticism of CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil, who failed to secure a visa to cover President Trump's summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.According to The Daily Beast reporting, Dokoupil was forced to cover the historic event from Taipei, Taiwan—over 1,000 miles away—while his competitors at NBC and ABC covered the summit from Beijing without apparent issues. The 45-year-old anchor, who is only five months into his controversial tenure anchoring the primetime CBS show, reportedly faced visa complications

Bill Maher and Sen. John Fetterman sat around joking about Donald Trump’s new White House ballroom like a couple of wealthy guys at a country club joking over cocktails as the republic burns outside the window.Maher dismissed the outrage by calling the cost “couch money.” Fetterman rolled his eyes and reduced the backlash to “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” They practically patted each other on the back for being the last two supposedly reasonable men in American politics.Calm down, peasants, they were essentially saying. It’s only a $330 million gilded palace add-on for a man who already treats the presidency like his private casino.This is what elite detach

Words matter. When describing a government, they inevitably carry moral weight. Over the last 16 months, Trump and his appointees have so profoundly undermined the United States government that we should use different words to describe these people than we’ve used to describe all previous administrations. To begin with, they shouldn’t be called an “administration” at all. They should be referred to as a regime. The Trump regime has flagrantly defied court orders. In February 2026, a federal judge (appointed by President George W. Bush) identified approximately 200 orders from the District of Minnesota alone that ICE had ignored since the start of the year,

In recent months, some prominent conservatives and erstwhile allies of President Donald Trump – former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and journalist Megyn Kelly, for example – have voiced their displeasure with him on several issues. They range from Trump’s handling of the Iran war and t

President Donald Trump desperately wants to protect one of the people who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election — but the January 6er in question was just assigned a judge who has already shown little patience for Trump.“On Thursday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia took up the case stylized as U.S.A. v. Fox, named for the D.C. Bar's lead disciplinary counsel, Hamilton P. Fox,” Law and Crime reported on Thursday. “