What did former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss mean when she wrote in her scathing resignation letter in July that Twitter was becoming the "ultimate editor" of the liberal newspaper?That's what host Bill Maher wanted to know Friday night when Weiss appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher."Weiss began by expressing gratitude toward tech CEOs, such as Facebook's Mark…
Nothing stings like criticism from an insider.Bari Weiss, a New York Times op-ed editor whose sin was not being a lockstep left-winger, has delivered a scathing indictment of the paper’s out-of-control liberal culture--in the form of a resignation letter.Her open letter to Publisher A.G. Sulzberger might sound overheated coming from an outside critic. But Weiss,…
New York Times opinion columnist and editor Bari Weiss announced Tuesday she is leaving the Gray Lady, saying she was bullied by colleagues in an "illiberal environment," weeks after declaring there was a “civil war” inside the paper.Weiss published a scathing resignation letter that she sent to Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger on her personal website, noting she doesn’t understand how toxic behavior…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…