MLB should strip ownership from billionaire John Fisher for his absurdly low payrolls and his plan to move the Athletics to a minor league park in Sacramento.
Anthony L. Fisher is the senior opinion editor and a columnist for The Daily Beast. He also writes the “Calling Balls and Strikes” newsletter on Substack. Prior to joining the Beast, he was a politics and culture columnist for Business Insider, where he had previously served as politics editor. In both 2016 and 2017, he won Southern California Journalism Awards from the Los Angeles Press Club for investigative reporting on criminal justice.
The X boss is begging you still to care about the once-influential social media app he very quickly made worthless.
Anti-anti-Trumpers brush off Jan. 6 as a mere “security failure.” But the violent assault was just one of many facets of Trump’s attempt to steal the presidency.
Now that pro-Palestinian voices are being censored, the left has a new appreciation for free speech, nuance, and context.
The long-anticipated ground invasion of the Palestinian enclave appears to have begun, as Netanyahu flails politically and fears of a wider regional war grow.
He declared his antiracist philosophy to be the unimpeachable truth, and mainstream institutions never challenged him. That’s not how you win an argument.
Author Fredrik deBoer talks with The Daily Beast about his new book, “How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement.”
The anti-establishment podcaster accused of sexual assault deserves due process. There is also no evidence—at all—of a conspiracy trying to destroy him for his politics.
The “facts don’t care about your feelings” guy thinks the world’s richest man is “correct” to threaten a bogus defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
When high-profile thought leaders in your movement are regularly outed as bigots, perhaps it’s time for some spiritual house-cleaning.