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government shutdown
Dec. 11, 2018
Trump Vows to Shut Down Government If He Doesn’t Get His Wall The president lost his temper and finally took total responsibility for a bad thing that may soon happen.
By Ed Kilgore
‘Baby Breitbarts’ Might Be the Future of Local Newspapers The Tennessee Star is a far-right outlet disguised as a traditional paper. And it’s influencing local politics while staying in the black.
By Eric Levitz
Watch Kobi Libii’s Two-Part ‘Opposition’ Segment Investigating Former […] This week, The Opposition with Jordan Klepper aired a two-part segment from Citizen Journalist Kobi Libii, who headed out to Twin Falls, Idaho […]
By Megh Wright
Trump Always Had the Power to Ruin Bannon, But His Strategist Didn’t See It Until the very end, Bannon seemed unable to admit he’d so thoroughly screwed himself, and unwilling to believe that even his own had turned on him.
By Olivia Nuzzi
We’re About to Find Out If Bannonism Is a Thing The Breitbart chairman has a chance to trade pro-Trump sycophancy for an ideologically coherent brand of far-right populism.
By Eric Levitz
Breitbart Didn’t Just Support Moore, They Practically Worked for Him A remarkable blurring of the line between a news organization and a political one.
By Olivia Nuzzi
the national circus
Nov. 30, 2017
Frank Rich: NBC Still Has a Lot to Answer For The network got out ahead of the Matt Lauer scandal by firing their star. But there’s more they need to do.
By Frank Rich
Vice Reporter Slammed for Sexist Breitbart Emails Mitchell Sunderland is a senior staff writer for Broadly, Vice’s women’s channel.
By Madeleine Aggeler
Does the GOP Base Love Trump More Than It Hates ‘Amnesty’? As Trump pursues a DREAM Act, we’re about to learn whether Trumpism is more of a personality cult than nativist movement.
By Eric Levitz
Steve Bannon’s Nationalism Isn’t About the Economy, Stupid If Bannon cared about his economic agenda, he would want Trump to work with Democrats. But he doesn’t, because he only cares about immigration.
By Eric Levitz
palace intrigue
Aug. 22, 2017
Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Says He Can Have Ivanka ‘Out by End of Year’ According to reports, the editor thought he was emailing with Steve Bannon.
By Claire Landsbaum
palace intrigue
Aug. 21, 2017
As Steve Bannon Returns, Breitbart Launches New Attacks Against Ivanka New stories on the site recall Bannon’s threats to go “nuclear” on the First Daughter.
By Claire Landsbaum
White House Wonders If It’s Safe to Fire Steve Bannon Many of Trump’s closest allies want the Breitbart mastermind gone, while others reportedly worry about the “mischief” he could make in exile.
By Eric Levitz
conspiracy theories
Aug. 10, 2017
By Claire Landsbaum
trump palace
Aug. 5, 2017
Trump and Kushner Push Back on Right-Wing Campaign to Fire McMaster, for Now Even the Russian Twitter bots have been piling on McMaster over the past week.
By Chas Danner
Trump’s Big Political Asset Is Supporters Who Believe Any Negative News Is Fake GOP “base” voters have long regarded the media as “biased” allies of their enemies. It’s taken Trump to convince them any bad news is just made up.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Lawyer Hints Comey Part of ‘Deep State’ Conspiracy After calling Comey a liar, Trump attorney identifies him with the leakers some Trump fans believe are trying reverse the election.
By Ed Kilgore
the new far right
Apr. 30, 2017
Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow Talks About Covering His Old Boss “We don’t have to be hysterical or outraged as often because our agenda is mostly getting implemented.”
By Gabriel Sherman
the far right
Apr. 28, 2017
Milo Yiannopoulos Just Got $12 Million to Troll More Liberals There’s a strong case to be made that he got his new gig because he’s figured out how to get college campuses to riot.
By Jesse Singal
The Alt-Right Is Debating Whether Bannon Needs a Better Press Strategy “He has a lot of friends out on the internet who love him, but we are all still waiting for him to unleash the beast.”
By Olivia Nuzzi
last night on late night
Apr. 4, 2017
By Halle Kiefer
Why Steve Bannon Might Be the Winner of the GOP’s Health-Care Civil War The Trump aide has told associates he’s unhappy with the bill and is already distancing himself from it.
By Gabriel Sherman
The Right Spreads Baseless Lie That Nunes Just Validated Trump’s Baseless Lies Even if the House Intelligence Chair’s allegations are true, they do not remotely vindicate the president’s “wiretap” claims.
By Eric Levitz
Breitbart Keeps Turning Up the Heat on Paul Ryan Even as administration figures rallied around the GOP health plan, Trump’s fans at Breitbart used it as fresh ammunition in its war on the Speaker.
By Ed Kilgore
Breitbart May Have Just Killed Trumpcare Steve Bannon’s old site (correctly) notes that the House GOP’s Obamacare replacement would hurt Trump’s base and endanger his party in 2018.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Team Dares James Comey to Say Obama Didn’t Wiretap Trump On Monday, the White House suggested that Trump trusts his own misreadings of Breitbart articles over the word of the FBI director.
By Eric Levitz
Scenes From the Breitbart CPAC Luau As conservatism faces an existential crisis, a tour through CPAC’s afterparties proves educational.
By Olivia Nuzzi
Is Trump Taking Over Conservatism, or Is Conservatism Absorbing Trump? The evidence ahead of a key right-wing conference suggests that it’s the right that’s moving.
By Ed Kilgore
Puzder Is the First Trump Nominee to Fall Before He Is Confirmed Liberals disliked Puzder for anti-labor policies and proud sexism. National Review disliked his immigration views. His many problems did him in.
By Ed Kilgore
Breitbart Blames Priebus for All of the Trump Administration’s Problems The leading voice for the “Bannon Wing” of the White House points a finger at the chief of staff – even for the difficulties of repealing Obamacare.
By Ed Kilgore
Cringe Your Way Through This Breitbart News Interview With Sean Spicer The White House press secretary sat down with the right-wing outlet and the video is a sight to behold.
By Adam K. Raymond
Steve Bannon Sees Himself As Thomas Cromwell. Will His Head End Up on a Spike? Henry VIII’s powerful adviser did change history. But he also came to a bad end.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Executive Orders Were Brought to You by Breitbart Trump’s flurry of orders were penned by the Bannon wing of the White House, with little consultation from cabinet agencies or Congress. And it shows.
By Eric Levitz
Paul Ryan–Hating Breitbart Reporter Joins White House Staff As the Trump team works on an agenda with the Speaker, its staff will soon include a writer who has accused him of selling out America.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Rabid Base Will Give Him a Power Obama Lacked Unlike Obama eight years ago, the president-elect seems willing to deploy his minions to ride herd on Congress.
By Ed Kilgore
weather channel
Dec. 6, 2016
Weather Channel Rains Down Facts on Breitbart “To all my fellow scientists out there: Let’s make the facts louder than the opinion.”
By Tolly Wright
Fashion Brands May Have No Idea They’re Advertising on Breitbart Though a new Twitter account is trying to get them to pull their ads.
By Gabriella Paiella
Breitbart News Has Gone to War With Kellogg’s The cereal-maker has stopped advertising on Breitbart. Now the right-wing site is calling for a boycott.
By Adam K. Raymond
steve bannon
Nov. 15, 2016
Yes, Steve Bannon Asked Why a School Had So Many Hanukkah Books This at least partially confirms one of the accusations of anti-Semitism made by Bannon’s ex-wife in a 2007 court document.
By Jesse Singal
Alex Jones Says Our Next President Will Soon Be on His Show The radio host — who has claimed that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax — says Donald Trump will appear on his show in the “next few weeks.”
By Eric Levitz
Breitbart’s Steve Bannon Might Be Trump’s Chief of Staff A man who knows a thing or two about right-wing politics.
By Jesse Singal
Trump TV May Have Already Cornered Its Audience: ‘The Future of the GOP’ Trump is building a 14 million–member email list full of young conservatives. His team wants to milk it for money and influence for years to come.
By Eric Levitz
Curt Schilling Joins Breitbart The former Red Sox pitcher and Trump supporter will host a daily online radio show featuring political commentary and calls from listeners.
By Gabriel Sherman
Trump’s Dangerous Game of ‘Beat the Press’ Trump’s attacks on “biased” media could incite his supporters not only to distrust coverage of the campaign but to reject its outcome.
By Ed Kilgore
select all
Sept. 21, 2016
The Donald Trump Jr. Skittles Fight Is Everything Dumb About the Internet It would be nice if we could debate individual arguments in the light of their full context, without making irrelevant points.
By Jesse Singal
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