Oliver Bateman

Elections often tell you less about the winners than the losers. Victory has many fathers, as the saying goes, but defeat shows you exactly what went wrong.Pennsylvania's 2024 results offer

After losing a series of defamation lawsuits over his false claims about the Sandy Hook school shooting, Alex Jones's Infowars brand is headed to auction today.

What’s the point of evaluating a staple foodstuff that always delivers as promised?

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey's final days in office read like a cautionary tale about the dangers of political evolution. His inbox overflows with increasingly desperate fundraising pleas –

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey's final days in office read like a cautionary tale about the dangers of political evolution. His inbox overflows with increasingly desperate fundraising pleas – "Some bad news," "More bad news," "To avoid catastrophe" – while his campaign has embraced an unlikely role: election truther. The three-term senator now spams supporters daily, begging for $5 contributions to fund recounts against Republican Dave McCormick, whose narrow victory most media outlets have already confirmed. The collapse of Casey's careful political balancing act offers a masterclass in how not to navigate America's shifting electoral landscape.

How the business world’s favorite social network became a wasteland of artificial authenticity.

The entrance of Donald Trump at UFC 309 on Saturday night, flanked by Robert F. Kennedy, Elon Musk, and UFC president Dana White, felt more like an inauguration than the January spectacle still to come. Here was the President-elect taking his place among his people, as heavyweight champion Jon Jones did the “Trump dance” in [...]Read More...

How opinion dealers leverage their past ideology for present glory.

There's something perfectly fitting about Shane Gillis appearing in Bud Light's latest commercial . Here's a football player-turned-comedian, cancelled

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman's political career has always been a high-wire act. The 6'8" senator, who survived a near-fatal stroke during his 2022