Toward a New Political Journalism

Photo: Adolphe Menjou (left) and Pat O’Brien (center), and George E. Stone in the original 1931 film version of “The Front Page,” directed by Lewis Milestone.

As I have stated over the past few weeks, going forward it is my intention to focus this blog on efforts we as Americans can take to combat the ongoing attempt by Big Lie Republicans to seize control of the republic and establish a right wing autocracy.

Because make no mistake: that is what is going on, and there has hardly been an existential emergency of this magnitude for the United States since the…