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
July 19, 2016Getting voters' attention with politics and policy against the thrill of a reality show with a lead who whips up anger and chaos is a Herculean task.
July 13, 2016When a candidate starts in the cellar in terms of behavior and temperament, there's nowhere to go but up.
July 6, 2016The 2016 campaign is less a populist revolt than a corporate media takeover.
June 29, 2016Rather than creating a community, the internet and social media have divided and disengaged us and set our politics adrift.
June 22, 2016Donald Trump is a distraction from the fact that the mainstream media has pretended the GOP is a normal party with values just to the right. Now the country is paying the price.
June 10, 2016The rebellious nature of the Vermont senator's presidential bid didn't fit the mainstream media's predetermined scenario.
June 3, 2016The Clinton so many people seem to distrust has been shaped in large part by the media who cover her – and the image she has had to create in self-defense.
May 27, 2016Now that he has clinched the nomination, here comes the effort to shape Donald Trump's image as a regular guy. But he remains an existential threat.
May 20, 2016The winning candidate may be the one who most successfully stirs the public's mistrust of journalists and journalism.
May 13, 2016The GOP candidate gets away with outrageous, contradictory statements because the mainstream media and the public let him.
