Credit: Netflix The Paradox team discusses a very important cultural event: the Netflix revival of “Gilmore Girls” (warning: MAJOR spoilers for “A Year in the Life”). D.C. writer and communications star Kate Bryan joined...
According to PolitiFact analysis, one of these things is not like the others By MATT SHAPIRO In this series culling PolitiFact data, we’ve looked at the aggregate truth ratings they give members of different...
By MATT SHAPIRO In the first piece in our series on PolitiFact bias, we looked at how PolitiFact generally rates Republicans as less honest than Democrats and how their word count betrays the...
By MATT SHAPIRO When it comes to fact-checking, no organization is better known than PolitiFact. The online fact-checking project operated by the Tampa Bay Times is synonymous with the concept of the fact-check as...
Credit: Joseph Thornton via flickr By MATT SHAPIRO When President-elect Donald Trump announced the “Carrier deal” in Indiana, the reactions across the pundit-sphere were predictable. Everyone who hates Trump hated this deal and everyone...
Credit: Netflix By J.D. ECARMA [MAJOR, LIFE-RUINING SPOILERS IN CASE YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED “A YEAR IN THE LIFE” TWICE ALREADY.] Whatever happened to Rory Gilmore? The former wunderkind made it into Harvard, Princeton and...
By J.D. ECARMA WARNING: ALL THE SPOILERS. YES, INCLUDING THE LAST FOUR WORDS. With no comforting theme song, a sharper edge and its fair share of regrets, “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life”...
Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons By J.D. ECARMA and MATT SHAPIRO Back in what seems like a much more innocent time (2004), National Review published a tongue-in-cheek cover story on Howard Dean asking...
The Paradox team is back after a little post-election break. Confused, concerned Coloradan Brendan Loy was our returning guest this week to talk about listening to people better (and most especially the people who disagree...
To cap off this insane election year, we invited political strategist and One Direction fan Dina Fraioli back to talk about who held the line in 2016 and whether or not the GOP survives....