Sublime

Andrew Breitbart despised racism. Truly despised it. He used to brag regularly about helping to integrate his fraternity at Tulane University. He insisted that racial stories be treated with special care to avoid even the whiff of racism. With Bannon embracing Trump, all that changed. Now Breitbart has become the alt-right go-to website, with Yiann

Following Andrew’s death at age forty-three in March 2012, Steve Bannon became executive chairman. Under Bannon’s reign Breitbart became a haven for what the corporate press indiscriminately describes as “alt-right,” “far-right,” “populist,” or “white supremacist” views. Conservative wunderkind—and purported ghostwriter of Andrew’s book—Ben Shapiro

The news coverage given to Brock’s fake news focus provides fresh evidence of how he’s truly set himself apart in the smear industry. As a political operative, he seems able to pick up the phone or send an email and get his message covered in outlets ranging from Politico to the New York Times. There are no other liberals or conservative counterpar

The reason the death of Google Reader matters, here, is that it marks a pivotal moment in the deliberate and engineered shrinking of the internet. When Google Reader died, article discovery shifted. People were no longer reading RSS feeds, finding new sites, following them, and being updated when those sites posted. Instead, they were scrolling on

Brock has cultivated an impressive body of liberal megadonors and assembled an eclectic collection of no fewer than thirty smear-related projects, most notably his flagship “media watchdog,” Media Matters. This collection of groups was cited to me by nearly every Democrat and Republican operative I interviewed as the most ubiquitous and successful

The New Right seeks to discredit and obliterate the power of the corporate press. “My goal is to destroy the New York Times and CNN—and not just them,” Andrew Breitbart once explicitly said.