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A time-honored tactic in political TV ads is to use contrasting degrees of photographic exposure, one bright and snappy for your candidate and a darker hue, sometimes even going to old-fashioned black-and-white, for your opponent. On December 29, at the W ...

On Wednesday, Nate Cohn at the New York Times, who by some accounts is being anointed the next Nate Silver of polling, made a clumsy and despicable attempt to inject race into his political "analysis" of the Donald Trump phenomenon. Cohn's ...

If Paul Waldman had wanted to put the main argument of his Monday American Prospect column in Obamaesque terms, he might have written that conservative opponents of political correctness have gotten bitter and are clinging to their supposed right (and may ...

Last December, Lebron James took a stand on a controversial issue involving race and the police when he wore an “I Can’t Breathe” shirt during warm-ups prior to an NBA game. This December, however, the “social conscience” movement on Twitter didn’t ask Le ...

If you could sum up 2015 in one word, what would it be? In early December, Dictionary.com revealed its top pick. Based off of “language evolution and user interest,” the online lexicon dubbed identity the 2015 word of the year. You can probably understand ...

It’s a given that the majority of Hollywood’s top stars are outspoken liberals. But this year, a few celebrities in particular made the media go ga-ga (and conservatives groan) over their pushy politics and their perpetual time in the spotlight. 1.     Am ...

Starting last week, NewsBusters has been revealing the winners and top runners-up for each category in the MRC’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “ Ku Klux Con Job Award,” for smearing conser ...

The focus of NBC’s “Shots and Salsa” episode of the big-box-store comedy  Superstore  was racism. According to Amy (America Ferrera), the request from her boss, Glenn (Mark McKinney) to pass out salsa samples is racist because she is a Latina. She refuses ...

READER WARNING: The following post contains spoilers pertaining to Star Wars: The Force Awakens.--------------------------------------------------------------------- Writing in the December 24 print edition of The Washington Post, Style section columnist ...

President Obama and members of his administration assure us we have nothing to fear when it comes to terrorism. Whether you accept this, or not-- and opinion polls show a majority do not-- there is another fear that in large part is behind the phenomenon ...

Starting last week, NewsBusters has been revealing the winners and top runners-up for each category in the MRC’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “ Audacity of Dopes ” award, for the wackiest ...

Only Nixon could go to China, according to one of the more enduring political truths of the last half-century. Just as only a man of color with undeniable credibility in the black community can publicly utter an undeniable truth-- it's not only polic ...

Bill Scher runs a website called Liberal Oasis, which makes it unsurprising that his Monday RealClearPolitics column celebrated President Obama’s avoidance (so far) of the “ second-term curse ” that supposedly afflicted George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and s ...

The New York Times’ Christmas Day editorial, “ Moments of Grace in a Grim Year,” got off to a wonderful start with a tribute to the astronauts of Apollo 8, the first humans to orbit the moon. On Christmas Eve 1968 Apollo 8 sent a now-iconic photograph (pa ...

On Christmas Eve the New York Times pushed the NBA’s new gun control campaign (that's NBA, not NRA), both on the front page and on the front of the Sports section. The sports editors really performed a full-court press, taking a local angle with an o ...