Michael Tracey

Why Are Pundits Obsessed With Making Idiotic Predictions?

Things That Are Important Versus Things That Are Not Important

The Electoral College Is Not “Anti-Democratic”

“Why Don’t You Cover The Stuff I Happen To Prioritize?!” — The New “False Equivalence”

Please Stop Making Up Stupid Trump Controversies

Brexit Created New Opportunities For The Left In The UK, And Trump Will Do The Same In America

How The Cult of “Fact-Checking” Helped Trump Win

Earlier today I was asked by Nick Baumann to elaborate on a point about how the cult of “fact-checking” paved the way for Trump’s victory. So let me do that here, briefly.

How MSNBC’s Alex Seitz-Wald Colluded With The Failed Clinton Campaign

Trump Was Always The Republican Candidate Best Positioned To Defeat Hillary

We Need New Modes Of Journalism, And You Need To Pay For It

It will take many years and several “War and Peace”-length tomes to fully document all the staggering ironies, failures, false assumptions, and crippling pathologies that were made manifest over the course of the 2016 election…