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Tucker Carlson
the national interest
Aug. 6, 2021
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 4, 2021
Tucker Carlson Has Seen the Future, and It Is Fascist An important marker on the Republican road to authoritarianism.
By Jonathan Chait
conservatism
July 7, 2021
Tucker Carlson’s Populism Is for the Small-Time Rich The Fox News host’s claims that Joe Biden will destroy the suburbs reveal the true nature of working-class conservatism.
By Eric Levitz
critical race theory
June 30, 2021
By Zak Cheney-Rice
conservatism
June 2, 2021
By Eric Levitz
the national interest
Apr. 27, 2021
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Apr. 9, 2021
Tucker Carlson Endorses White Supremacist Theory by Name The “Great Replacement” conspiracy is ready for Fox News prime time.
By Jonathan Chait
last night on late night
Mar. 15, 2021
By Rebecca Alter
the national interest
Mar. 4, 2021
By Jonathan Chait
extreme weather
Feb. 17, 2021
No, the Green New Deal Did Not Cause the Texas Power Outage Conservatives want you to believe that Texas’s gas pipelines froze because its Republican government embraced eco-socialism.
By Eric Levitz
the national interest
Jan. 21, 2021
By Jonathan Chait
2020 presidential debates
Oct. 1, 2020
Fox News Tries on Every Possible Trump Defense After His Disastrous Debate Wednesday night was full of hedging and misdirection on the president’s favorite network.
By Matt Stieb
republicans
July 23, 2020
The Future of the Republican Party Isn’t in the Dead Center Don’t expect moderate heretics like Charlie Baker and Larry Hogan to inherit the GOP from Trump.
By Ed Kilgore
Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity Accused of Sexual Misconduct in New Lawsuit A Fox spokesperson calls claims against current hosts “false, patently frivolous and utterly devoid of any merit.”
By Justin Curto
Tucker Carlson Suddenly Leaves for Vacation After Writer Quits Over Racist Posts The Fox News host announced a “long-planned” fishing trip days after his top writer resigned for posting racist comments on a message board.
By Matt Stieb
Tucker Carlson: Protect American ‘Culture’ and ‘Heritage’ From Tammy Duckworth The Fox News host continued his attacks on the Illinois Democrat, calling her a “coward,” a “moron,” and a “fraud.”
By Adam K. Raymond
the national interest
Apr. 28, 2020
By Jonathan Chait
Fox News Welcomes ‘Deep State’ Intelligence When It Leads to Conflict With Iran A serious change of tune for the network, which has attacked the “deep state” intelligence community for the Trump-Russia inquiries for three years.
By Matt Stieb
Tucker Carlson Guest Suggests Immigrants Make New York Dirty The host did not reject writer Seth Barron’s argument: Last December, Carlson claimed that immigrants were making America “poorer and dirtier.”
By Matt Stieb
what the right is reading
Sept. 17, 2019
Is Tucker Carlson the Most Important Pundit in America? The Fox News host stymied a military strike and helped defenestrate John Bolton. Bigger yet, he’s trying to remake right-wing politics in the U.S.
By Park MacDougald
tucker carlson
Aug. 19, 2019
The Advertiser Embargo Against Tucker Carlson Is Working Association with a host praised by David Duke isn’t great for business: Carlson has almost 60 percent fewer ads per show than before the 2018 exodus.
By Matt Stieb
conspiracy theories
Aug. 12, 2019
The Conspiracist-in-Chief Trump gravitates toward outlandish conspiracy theories to explain a fairly straightforward phenomenon: People don’t like him.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
The Sleight of Hand at the Heart of Trump’s Appeal Stephen Ross and Tucker Carlson reveal the glue that holds the Republican coalition together.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
white supremacy
Aug. 7, 2019
White Nationalist Terrorism Is a Problem. Trump Is a Bigger One. Donald Trump has done more damage to our democracy with his bully pulpit than a psychopathic racist ever could with an AK-47.
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
July 19, 2019
What the Hell Is ‘National Conservatism’ Anyway? A conference in Washington, D.C., this week tried to flesh out a new political philosophy for the American right. The results were, at best, mixed.
By Park MacDougald
Tucker Carlson’s Latest Attack on Ilhan Omar Is a Pack of Racist Lies The Fox News host is living proof that right-wing political correctness has become dangerous for this country.
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
June 6, 2019
Tucker Carlson’s Praise for Elizabeth Warren Should Scare Democrats If the GOP turns left on economics, it could dominate America’s politics. And the obstacles to such a pivot are starting to fall.
By Eric Levitz
A Recap of the Week the Kid Mero Mercilessly Dragged Tucker Carlson Fans In a three-day span, the Desus & Mero co-host hilariously picked fights on behalf of Chris Hayes.
By Dan Reilly
fox news news
Apr. 3, 2019
By Adam K. Raymond
white nationalism
Apr. 1, 2019
Ex–White-Nationalist Says Tucker Carlson Hits Messaging “Better Than They Have” Derek Black, who disavowed the movement in 2013, says that his white-nationalist family watches Carlson “to get some tips on how to advance it.”
By Matt Stieb
There’s No Good Reason to Go on Fox News Like the Blob, Fox absorbs everything it touches.
By Sarah Jones
There’s No Good Reason to Go on Fox News Like the Blob, Fox absorbs everything it touches.
By Sarah Jones
Tucker Carlson and the Folly of Debating Bigots on Their Terms The racist, misogynist Fox News host wants his detractors to debate him on his TV show. It’s a page straight out of the modern conservative playbook.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
Tucker Carlson’s Racist Comments Emerge, Day After Misogynistic Remarks After the Fox News host shrugged off a reel highlighting his misogyny, tapes emerged of him calling Iraqis “semi-literate primitive monkeys.”
By Matt Stieb
invitations
Mar. 11, 2019
I Invite Tucker Carlson to Explain Why He’s Not an Idiot The Fox News host welcomed anyone who disagrees with him to come on his show, but I think he should come to my desk instead.
By Madeleine Aggeler
fox news news
Mar. 11, 2019
What Does It Take for Fox News to Rebuke One of Its Hosts? The network condemned Jeanine Pirro this weekend, but not Tucker Carlson.
By Adam K. Raymond
Tucker Carlson Defends Disgusting Comments As “Naughty” He has refused to apologize after unearthed audio surfaced in which he defended statutory rape and called women “primitive.”
By Kimberly Truong
tucker carlson
Mar. 10, 2019
Tape Unearthed of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Calling Women ‘Extremely Primitive’ In recordings from 2006 to 2011, Carlson says that sex workers, at large, are “slutty and pathetic,” and women, in general, are “extremely primitive.”
By Matt Stieb
last night on late night
Jan. 27, 2019
By Devon Ivie
conservatism
Jan. 8, 2019
Why Tucker Carlson Plays a Critic of Capitalism on TV Capital flight — and “woke” consumer brands — have become a visceral threat to white, rural America’s traditional values.
By Eric Levitz
Advertisers Dump Tucker Carlson After He Said Immigrants Make U.S. ‘Dirtier’ Among those no longer advertising on his show are NerdWallet and the company that makes BowFlex.
By Adam K. Raymond
life in pixels
Nov. 30, 2018
Why Is Tucker Carlson Mad About Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? Like the water cycle, the content cycle is a beautiful, natural process that sustains a multitude of organisms at all levels.
By Max Read
Trump Doesn’t Get Why U.S. Has to Defend NATO Allies In an interview with Tucker Carlson, both Trump and the host wondered why the U.S. would have to defend Montenegro against attack.
By Adam K. Raymond
Seth MacFarlane Says Fox News Makes Him ‘Embarrassed to Work for This Company’ “Don’t think critically, don’t consult multiple news sources, and in general, don’t use your brain. Just blindly obey Fox News.”
By Halle Kiefer
pandas exposed
Apr. 9, 2018
By Amanda Arnold
but what about men
Mar. 7, 2018
By Amanda Arnold
the national interest
Oct. 18, 2017
Eagerness to Go on TV Has Warped Liberal Media, Glenn Greenwald Tells TV Host A strange theory for why the Fake News Media has been smearing Trump on Russia.
By Jonathan Chait
blind faith
Aug. 22, 2017
Tucker Carlson: Trump Looking Directly at the Sun Was ‘Impressive’ Actually, looking directly at the eclipse was “perhaps the most impressive thing a president has ever done.”
By Sarah Spellings
Some of the Most Racist Moments in Fox News History ▶️ “Congresswoman, you saw what happened to Whitney Houston: Step away from the crack pipe.”
By Jared T. Miller
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