Tucker Carlson

In an interview that lasted more than two hours, the Russian President aired well-trod grievances and gave a lecture full of spurious history meant to justify his war in Ukraine.

The former Fox host is embracing his new outsider status with “Tucker on Twitter.”

The staff writers Kelefa Sanneh, who profiled Carlson in 2017, and Andrew Marantz, who covers right-wing politics, on Carlson’s demise—and what comes next.

Andrew Marantz, Kelefa Sanneh, and Clare Malone on two big stories about conservative media: the ouster of Fox’s leading man, and Owens’s rise as a culture-war influencer.

Perhaps more than those of any other network on television, the stars of Fox News are more or less interchangeable.

Donald Trump had the raw power on the right. But it was Carlson who set the ideological agenda.

On a week when the 2024 contrast could not be clearer.

“Any attempt to raise said hand would result in excruciating, unbearable pain,” the note from the Fox News host’s orthopedist said.

The Dominion lawsuit has exposed instances of pandering and duplicity, but none of it is likely to change the network’s business model.

Some viewers questioned the authenticity of one section of the video, which showed Jimi Hendrix performing “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

According to Kat Abughazaleh, a researcher at Media Matters for America, “You don’t know Fox News until you are watching it for a job.”

“Tucker is in a very dark place right now,” a Fox News colleague said. “To be unmasked as an honest person is literally his worst nightmare.”

Better roasted than toasted.

You’ll never guess who was spotted sporting Kanye’s brand.

The Fox News host called the jury’s decision a “direct attack on the lying life style.”

“If both of these things happened, what Hunter did was far worse,” Carlson said.

After gas prices showed their biggest one-day drop in almost fifteen years, Carlson said, “It’s time to call out the man behind this conspiracy: Joe Biden.”

American conservatives recently hosted their flagship conference in Hungary, a country that experts call an autocracy. Its leader, Viktor Orbán, provides a potential model of what a Trump after Trump might look like.

“Our responsibility to our viewers, first and foremost, is to keep them up to date on what’s going on with Benghazi,” Tucker Carlson explained.