Michael Brendan Dougherty
The Archive
The knives are out! Buttigieg buzz grows as tensions grow between Biden, Harris
Kamala Harris is much more desperately unpopular than her aged boss is. And the Harris team wants to blame Joe Biden for this.
Democrats bizarrely won’t end their love affair with masks
Are we at the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning on masking children? It depends on which Democrats you ask.
Haitians flooding in at border exposing thousands to danger
The Biden administration, surprising precisely nobody, is facing an ever-worsening crisis at the border. In recent days, thousands of Haitian immigrants have crossed the Rio Grande. No, that's not a...
Biden clan knew last year that Hunter's cash grabs were a big problem
It’s debunked. It’s disinformation. And insofar as it’s true, it just shows Joe Biden is a great dad. You should be prevented from sharing it on social media; maybe you...
Don't forget how elite idiots got start of coronavirus crisis wrong
Something about Twitter allows mainstream journalists to converge quickly on what they deem to be the highest-status opinion about current events. Nassim Nicholas Taleb refers to this class of people...
I'm worried about coronavirus — and you should be, too
Fine, I’ll say it: I’m afraid of it, the virus. For a significant share of readers, that’s enough to write me off. “It’s just like the flu, but not as...
Brit voters set to burn the Brexit-bumbling politicians
There is a lesson in British politics for the rest of the world: A democratic revolt of the people against the establishment cannot be resisted forever. The immediate result of...