By Jackie Spinner Earlier this year, Will Lewis, the Washington Post’s new publisher and CEO, disclosed in a staff meeting that the Post had lost nearly half of its digital subscribers since the peak of 2020 when Donald Trump was still president and the COVID-19 pandemic was raging. The Post had already announced that it
By William H. Freivogel The purpose of a newspaper endorsement of a president or other political candidate is to pull together the information about the candidates, measure the candidates against the news organization’s and the nation’s values and then cogently explain to readers/voters why a particular candidate deserves their vote. That’s why my decade of
By Kallie Cox On April 27, a group of Muslim students at Washington University in St. Louis laid out mats and began their evening prayers. Behind them, other students, faculty and community members began to prepare food, talk quietly and finish setting up the student encampment for Palestine. Then police from several local departments armed
By Paul Wagman A settlement has been agreed to between the Gateway Pundit and the two Georgia election workers who charged the St. Louis-based far-right website with defamation in a civil suit in St. Louis Circuit Court. Notice of the settlement was filed on the Missouri Courts.gov website Monday afternoon. The parties to the
By Maureen McGough Policing has become hyperpoliticized and polarized to the detriment of the profession and the people it serves. Problematic messages include If you work with or for the police, you must be a racist; If you criticize an officer’s actions, you must be an anarchist; If Black lives matter, blue lives don’t (and vice
