Alex Shephard
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Past articles by Alex:
Relegate Manchester City
The Premier League needs to punish its most storied team if it wants to save itself from disrepute. → Read More
Five Authors We Thought Might Win the Nobel—Including Annie Ernaux
A reading list of works by perennial favorites, including this year's awardee, Annie Ernaux → Read More
Conservative Media Really Wants You to Think the Capitol Riot Is the Left’s Fault
Lies about voter fraud have given way to excuses for violence. → Read More
Georgia Shows the GOP’s Dismal Future Without Trump
The Republican Party is in disarray. → Read More
Oligarch of the Month: Kelly Loeffler
The Republican senator profited from a pandemic while millions of Americans lost their jobs. → Read More
Barack Obama, Media Critic
His book publicity tour has been full of critiques of the media that reveal a lot about the former president himself. → Read More
The Fate of American Democracy Is in the Hands of Cable News
God help us all. → Read More
Joe Biden and the Return of the Dreaded Bipartisan Commission
The Democrat’s proposed commission on court reform is an elaborate way of dodging the court-packing question. It also bodes ill for his presidency. → Read More
Oligarch of the Month: Leonard Leo
The Washington insider has been working for decades to put conservatives on the state and federal bench. → Read More
Joe Biden Doesn’t Have to Answer Your Court-Packing Question
The media is becoming obsessed with a distraction from what’s actually happening to the Supreme Court. → Read More
Of Course Donald Trump Got Covid-19
The president’s diagnosis is the culmination of months of failed leadership. → Read More
Bret Stephens’s Worst Column Yet?
The New York Times columnist has found a rare creature: a swing voter who talks just like Hugh Hewitt. → Read More
Donald Trump’s Taxes Aren’t Surprising, But They’re Still a Huge Deal
Much of the hand-wringing about the Times report has focused on its potential impact on Trump’s base and right-wing media. Fox News has covered the disclosures about Trump’s finances in predictable fashion, highlighting the president’s denials and attacks on the paper’s reporting. Trump’s allies in both the media and in Congress have also seized on another narrative, that the returns do not… → Read More
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Failure of Democratic Politics
The Supreme Court justice was both an icon and a symbol of modern liberalism's flawed approach to accruing power. → Read More
The Republican National Convention’s War on Reality
Up is down, the coronavirus pandemic is over, and Donald Trump is normal. → Read More
Newsweek and the Rise of the Zombie Magazine
How a decaying legacy magazine is being used to launder right-wing ideas and conspiracy theories. → Read More
Why the Media Is Uniquely Terrible at Covering the U.S. Postal Service
By embracing conservative talking points, the press missed the hollowing-out of one of America’s great institutions. → Read More
Fox News Is Leading the Attack on Kamala Harris
Donald Trump’s criticisms of the Democratic vice presidential nominee don’t make a lot of sense. As usual, his favorite network is stepping in. → Read More
The Problem With MSNBC Isn’t That it’s Too Liberal
It’s that it’s not very good. → Read More
Hugh Hewitt Has Always Been a Hack
The pundit was never a rational, thoughtful conservative. He just played one on TV. → Read More