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After a recent announcement that I have decided to retire this column and leave The Washington Post, a Vanity Fair reporter asked me by e-mail about the media’s performance in covering threats to democracy. That certainly was a fair question, since i...

Through the pandemic lockdown, I shared an evening ritual with a friend: a quick over-the-phone debrief about the episode of Jeopardy! we had both just watched, at slightly different times. Did either of us know the answer to the final question - or ...

Journalism has never been the most admired of professions, and in recent years the rap on its practitioners has only gotten worse. Gallup puts trust in the American news media at about 40 per cent nationally, a steep drop from its high point of more ...

Long before he glided down that golden escalator at Trump Tower in 2015 to announce his presidential candidacy, Donald Trump was an object of media fascination. He could never actually become president, of course — that was unthinkable — but he capti...

With so much news slamming us at every moment, it’s hard to see any of it as having enduring value. Who can even remember what happened last week? But not everything is ephemeral. Some journalism really does last. Years ago, when New York University...

It never should have taken a photo of Colbie Holderness’s bruised eye to get Rob Porter out of the White House. He shouldn’t have been there as a top aide to President Donald Trump to begin with, given the longstanding and credible charges of domesti...