Publisher’s Note Archives

The Clinton Cartel

Journalists are doing the Clintons’ dirty work for them and their machine.

The Antiglobalists

"Both Sanders and Trump affirm their determination to rebuild an America weakened by unhealthy relationships with the outside world."

"After only three primaries—almost a tie in Iowa, an emphatic victory for Sanders in New Hampshire, and 52.6 percent for Hillary in Nevada—Mrs. Clinton found herself being guaranteed the nomination by the newspaper of record."

Fair-weather Progressive

by John R. MacArthur,

"Hillary Clinton wasn’t really a progressive, or even a liberal Democrat, until Bernie Sanders decided to run for president."

The President’s War

by John R. MacArthur,

"For the first three years of François Hollande's presidency, he was neither malicious nor dangerous. And yet, since the terrorist attack on the Bataclan, it’s been a whole different story."

Something to Cry About

by John R. MacArthur,

"I was confident the French weren’t going to follow the bad example from overseas and start a 'war on terror' à l’américaine. But November 13 changed the equation."

At Any Cost

by John R. MacArthur,

"The pundits overestimate Americans’ supposedly anti-aristocratic tendencies, and underestimate Jeb’s profound determination to win."

North-side Gods

by John R. MacArthur,

“Now is the time that tries the souls of Chicago Cubs fans everywhere.”

Clinton Caution

by John R. MacArthur,

"As far as substance, there was none -- just the usual Clinton caution and excruciatingly scripted bromides designed to offend as few people as possible."

The Ignorance of Journalists

by John R. MacArthur,

"The fix was in from the beginning, despite the revolt. Fast-track authority was never in danger."

Nonsense Brokers

by John R. MacArthur,

“Rep. Kathleen Rice last week reversed her opposition to fast-track the TPP. If history repeats itself she won’t be the only member of Congress to betray her working class and labor-union supporters.”

The Grind and the Gun

by John R. MacArthur,

"Attributing white-on-black violence entirely to racism misses the larger problems that poorer people face in this country. They suffer a thousand cuts that never get talked about, except when the victims bleed to death."

The Mayor and the Machine

by John R. MacArthur,

“Emanuel's position in the local party is insecure because he was not raised in the machine, or, for that matter, in a working-class city neighborhood.”

French Fiction Reveals Faux Democracy

by John R. MacArthur,

"Houellebecq, who is neither radical nor left-wing, understands perfectly France's political elites and its duped and disempowered electorate."

America’s Peculiar Political Correctness

by John R. MacArthur,

“I don’t see how you can properly cover a news story without showing the reader or viewer one of the key elements that made the story a story ”

Amid redactions and monotony, reckless CIA cruelty

by John R. MacArthur,

"The massive prose work does possess a certain irony and subtlety, as well as a sickening urgency, which make it worth reading as a book, rather than as an accumulation of outrageous facts."

The New York Times tries to marginalize the left

by John R. MacArthur,

“Nowhere did the Times define ‘the left’ or what might excite its opposition to Clinton. Our imaginations are allowed to run wild: Is ‘the left’ a terrorist organization? A part of the outfield? Or is it just not worth mentioning?”

A purposeless, symbolic war

by John R. MacArthur,

“Since World War II, very little that could be called genuinely humanitarian has resulted from American military intervention—not in Korea, certainly not in Vietnam, and not in Panama, Afghanistan, or the two Iraq wars and Libya.”