Grow up, Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone has always fancied himself a revisionist historian, a bold truth-teller speaking facts to power.…
Filibustered
Filibustered is Alex McLevy’s column about the overlap between politics and pop culture.
The election’s over: Which pundit is the most desperate to keep it going?
The people have spoken, the votes have been counted, and the results are clear: Everyone wants this unpleasant election…
Clinton vs. Trump: Whoever wins, the debate moderator loses
A specter was haunting the first 2016 presidential debate. A disembodied voice, veering in and out of the sound system,…
Cable news was more interested in the people offstage at the DNC
For this year’s party conventions, the cable networks revised the first rule of pontificating on television—“It doesn’t…
The RNC was a show made for cable, and the networks suffered for it
Every four years the presidential conventions roll around, rising from the dead like impatient cicadas, to make a…