Neal Gabler
Neal Gabler is an author of five books and the recipient of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, TIME magazine's non-fiction book of the year, USA Today's biography of the year and other awards. He is also a senior fellow at The Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California, and is currently writing a biography of Sen. Edward Kennedy.
ALL POSTS BY Neal Gabler
October 5, 2016...the Nov. 8 contest is still all about Trump and Clinton.
October 4, 2016Our critic isn't too happy with the MSM — except The Washington Post.- October 3, 2016Politico goes deep on Hillary Clinton's emails with analysis of the FBI report and the Chicago Tribune editorial board endorses a third-party candidate.
September 30, 2016In which one of our critics finds an example of the media using good judgment.- September 29, 2016Our new series looks at how campaign 2016 is playing on TV and other media.
September 27, 2016The post-mortems are often more significant than the event itself. The pre-debate narrative set up Trump to win and Clinton to lose, but it didn't hold up.
September 26, 2016Presidential debates are never about substance — and Trump the showman has the edge.
September 20, 2016Is the tide turning? The words "lie" and "liar" are beginning to turn up in New York Times and Washington Post headlines about the GOP nominee.
September 14, 2016The press always follows the stories and characteristics they attach to candidates, no matter how much journalists argue that they are simply recording them.
September 7, 2016Journalists' dim view of everything from politicians to human nature seems to taint every story.
