Tag: Media

About 1.7 million people watched the MSNBC morning news show on Friday following the president's tweets, compared with an average of 997,000 during the second quarter of 2017. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

‘Morning Joe’ mocks ‘jerk’ Trump for his ‘three bald guys’ presser

Pete Kasperowicz · January 4, 2019 12:53 pm

President Trump arrives for a surprise appearance to speak to reporters about border security.

Media flabbergasted after Trump, Sarah Sanders don’t take questions at ‘briefing’

Caitlin Yilek · January 3, 2019 10:26 pm

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) Liaoning aircraft carrier, bottom, sails past a container ship in Hong Kong, China.

Beltway Confidential

Signaling a harder edge for 2019, China threatens US carriers, an invasion of Taiwan, and nuclear war

Tom Rogan · January 3, 2019 8:36 pm

Red Alert Politics

Humor: The best tool to spread conservatism

Anthony Leonardi · January 3, 2019 5:42 pm

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, who will become speaker of the House on Jan. 3, walks to her new office at the Capitol during a television interview for the NBC Today Show with Savannah Guthrie, right, in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Democrats are on the verge of chaos, and 2020 hasn’t even started

Eddie Scarry · January 3, 2019 5:17 pm

President Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, in Washington.

Kellyanne Conway: Trump’s 90-minute Cabinet meeting ‘shows his transparency’

Daniel Chaitin · January 3, 2019 4:49 pm

Megan Mayhew Bergman, director of the Robert Frost Stone House Museum in Shaftsbury, Vt., stands in front of the famous Frost poem, "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening," painted on a wall of the museum while holding a book.

Beltway Confidential

Two decades ago, Congress bowed to corporate interests on copyright; in 2019, some works are finally free

Erin Dunne · January 2, 2019 8:28 pm

Donald Trump and Mitt Romney's final wins look basically similar. Romney won California with 79.7 percent of the vote, but Trump's winning total at the moment is 75.4 percent. (AP Photos)

Beltway Confidential

Trump just neutralized whatever threat Mitt Romney tried posing

Eddie Scarry · January 2, 2019 4:17 pm

Dr. Herbert Hodes

Ex-New York Times top editor: News stories now ‘unmistakably anti-Trump’

Katelyn Caralle · January 2, 2019 3:47 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a State Council meeting on the development of volunteering and socially oriented NGOs, at the Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Chocolate cathedrals and the art of chekist humor

Tom Rogan · January 2, 2019 12:30 pm

Tiffany Haddish arrives at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

Tiffany Haddish won’t give up fur until police ‘stop killing black people’

James Langford · January 1, 2019 7:08 pm

An Afghan security force member walks at the site of suicide bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, in this 2018 file photograph.

Beltway Confidential

In Afghanistan, Uncle Sam’s left hand doesn’t know what his right hand is doing

Erin Dunne · December 31, 2018 10:05 pm