Margaret Sullivan

With a new book out about Joe Biden’s failed re-election campaign, a media reckoning is in full swing. It goes something like this: mainstream journalism failed the voters. Reporters were complicit; they didn’t tell us how much the elderly president […]

The revolving door between the Trump administration and rightwing Fox News took another wild spin this week, as America’s TV-obsessed president tapped Jeanine Pirro for a prominent legal post: top federal prosecutor for Washington DC. Pirro is unqualified, perhaps even

Since early 2024, I’ve been running a journalism ethics center at Columbia University. So perhaps it’s no surprise that I see the university’s capitulation to Trump both in terms of journalism and ethics. I’ve never run a university, but I

Gavin Newsom’s choice of guests – a parade of rightwingers – on his new podcast might seem baffling. After all, the California governor is seen as a mostly progressive Democrat from a very blue state whose reputation is that of

It might seem like a small matter, just a disagreement over whether a body of water should be called one name or another. But it’s really about much bigger things: Trump-style intimidation, a clear violation of the first amendment –

As with many a lame-duck president in the past, it feels as if Joe Biden has already left the national stage even though he has a month left in his term. In his case, that disappearing act is vastly exaggerated

In late November, Reality Winner – who turned 33 this week – finished her lengthy punishment for sending a government document to a news organization. It’s past time for her to be pardoned so that she can move on with

Since the conversation, if you can call it that, about trans people always seems to come down to bathrooms, I am sure of one thing. I would much rather share a ladies’ room or a locker room with Sarah McBride

When Donald Trump tapped a Fox News host this week to run the mighty US defense department, even Pete Hegseth’s colleagues at the rightwing media outlet were taken aback. “What the heck – can you believe it?” wondered Jesse Watters

The choice for president has seldom been starker. On one side is Donald Trump, a felonious and twice-impeached conman, raring to finish off the job of dismantling American democracy. On the other is Kamala Harris, a capable and experienced leader