The Federalist
The Federalist's Self-Proclaimed Bias
In September 2013, co-founder Ben Domenech, a conservative writer and TV commentator, wrote that The Federalist was inspired by the worldview of the original TIME magazine, which he described as "[leaning] to the political right, with a small-c conservatism equipped with a populist respect for the middle class reader outside of New York and Washington, and an abiding love for America at a time when snark and cynicism were not considered substitutes for smart analysis."
Domenech wrote that The Federalist would be informed by TIME's 1920s “list of prejudices” for the magazine, which included principles such as:
- A belief that the world is round and an admiration of the statesman’s view of all the world.
- A general distrust of the present tendency toward increasing interference by government.
- A prejudice against the rising cost of government.
- Faith in the things which money cannot buy.
- A respect for the old, particularly in manners.
- An interest in the new, particularly in ideas.
Democrats and corporate media spent much of the 2024 election cycle trying to pin deaths directly linked to the abortion pill on pro-life policies. Their lies and deceptions primarily centered on the story of Amber Thurman, a Georgia woman who died alongside her twin babies after suffering complications stemming from the abortion pill.
Thurman’s death is no doubt the direct result of a two-drug regimen (mifepristone and misoprostol) responsible for more than half of the nation’s abortions. Yet, outlets such as ProPublica skipped past mifepristone’s known correlation with serious adverse events to insist that women who took the pills, such as Thurman and Candi Miller, lost their lives due to pro-life laws...