While the media mogul spent more than half a century building up back-door political influence, the social media broligarch stormed into the US Government in just two years. Peter Jukes explores how the use of power through media has evolved
US Politics
King Charles congratulates Donald Trump on his "magnificent accomplishment" in restoring monarchical rule to America, imagines Alexandra Hall Hall
One of the biggest triumphs of the modern political right has been to close the space in which nuance and ambiguity can even sit, writes Hardeep Matharu
Why was Jack Posobiec, who has spread baseless Russian propaganda about the country, accompanying a US Treasury delegation visit to Ukraine?
Grant Stern explains the origin of the Byline Times exclusive that ended in another conviction for the Breitbart/Cambridge Analytica boss
Editorial from the March 2025 print edition of Byline Times
If enough people are talking with each other about why the rule of law, strong democratic values and human rights are worth defending, the demagogues will fail
Even if Jordan and Egypt somehow agreed to a US take over Gaza, who would physically remove 2.5 million Palestinians? Trump's proposal is pure fantasy - but what does it reveal?
The early stages of Trump's new administration are following an alarming and predictable pattern, argues Christian Christensen
Paul Niland dissects the lies and outright skirting of the law being perpetrated by Trump and Musk