Jake Bittle

@jake_bittle

Americans may appear to be split along educational lines—but the dysfunction goes much deeper.

Crisis at the NRA should have been a gift for gun control advocates. What went wrong?

Her encyclopedic historical novel “The Books of Jacob” takes us to a world before nationalism.

Human Events once shaped Republican policies. Now it’s pure Trumpism.

From his early novels to his final work, “Silverview,” le Carré captured the pervasive sense of being watched.

Bjorn Lomborg’s acceptance of global warming but denial of its consequences has earned him a regular gig in The Wall Street Journal.

The leader of Turning Point USA made his name as a campus free-speech warrior. Now, he’s vying to be the conservative movement’s most committed anti-vaxxer.

The same fossil fuel industry whose emissions helped intensify the storm also modified the Louisiana coastline to make it more vulnerable to flooding.

Conservative parents are winning seats by promising to fight the latest right-wing bogeyman.

A year ago, Christopher Rufo was an obscure documentarian. Now, he’s being invited on Tucker Carlson’s show to gin up fears of Marxism in America.

The steady rise of the longtime Fox News host is a reflection not of his comedic abilities, but the increasingly dark mood of conservative media.

The conservative gadfly’s new film studio is a bid to monetize the battle against cancel culture.

Jonathan Cohn’s new book shows how narrowly health care reform passed—and how far we are from universal coverage.

What’s behind Meghan McCain’s bizarre assertion that liberals are to blame for Donald Trump’s rise

Employees of LHC Group describe a business model that prioritized profits and compromised patient care. Soon they reached a breaking point: “It just didn’t make me feel right, doing what I did.”

What’s really behind the right’s war against Silicon Valley

Why conservative pundits are accusing Democrats of using the pandemic to “cancel” the holiday

How the network plans to use its Obama playbook against the next Democratic president

In the Trump era, long-time GOP operatives are pretending to be tortured moderates. Why do journalists keep falling for it?

Laura Loomer is a “proud Islamophobe” and QAnon supporter. She’s also a Republican nominee for Congress.