Trump vs. The New York Times

Last week, on Monday, September 16, President Trump decided to take his long-simmering feud with The New York Times from the podium to the courtroom, filing a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the paper, several of its reporters, and even its publisher, Penguin Random House. The suit accused them of maliciously distorting his business record,…

Trump, the Media, and the Battle for Truth

If there’s one thing we can always count on in American politics, it’s that the media will loudly proclaim its commitment to "free and independent journalism"—while simultaneously doing everything in its power to suppress viewpoints it doesn’t like. The latest controversy? The Trump White House has decided to take control of the presidential press pool,…

Trump vs. the AP Over the ‘Gulf of America’

Well, here we are again—another round of media outrage, another Trump controversy, and yet another example of everyone arguing about the wrong things while real issues go ignored. This time, the hullabaloo is about President Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and then barring the Associated Press (AP) from Air…