S.E. Cupp Columns category, Page 8
S.E. Cupp: How today’s Republican Party reminds me of Minute Maid concentrate
If you’re over the age of 30, you probably recognize the iconic black and orange can that sat in so many of our freezers and supermarkets growing up: the Minute Maid concentrated orange juice can. Developed in the 1940s to safely ship Vitamin C to our troops in World War...
S.E. Cupp: Cuomo still haunts and taunts New York
As I began my morning reading, I had to do a double-take at the Politico headline near the bottom of the home page: “He’s nuts and he’s got a vendetta:” While that easily could have described former President Donald Trump, or his one-time aide Steve Bannon, who surrendered to authorities...
S.E. Cupp: Now, GOP excuses disgusting misogyny
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez did not ask for this. Yes, she’s a public servant who, by definition, knows that she signed up for a kind of scrutiny that comes with a job as an elected official — but surely not this kind. And she’s not shied away from the spotlight during...
S.E. Cupp: Conservatives delighting in Baldwin’s pain show how far we’ve fallen
He’s, admittedly, a fairly unsympathetic figure. Alec Baldwin, the actor, short-time talk show host, Donald Trump impersonator and longtime blowhard and villain of the right, has said and done some pretty lamentable things over the past few decades. He’s been sued for assault in several attacks on paparazzi. He was...
S.E. Cupp: Why Pete Buttigieg ought to be a hero to the right
Like so many issues corrupted by America’s increasing political extremism, the cartoonish contours of our public abortion debate belie the more benign, uncontroversial realities on the ground. For example, despite very loud attempts at turning abortions into celebratory occasions by some on the far left, most Americans do not believe...
S.E. Cupp: Katie Couric is a cautionary tale
“Is she crazy?” read the early-morning text from a colleague. “What is she thinking?” read a text from another. “She can’t think this is GOOD,” read yet another. The barrage of chatter from fellow media friends, all referring to the release of several excerpts from Katie Couric’s forthcoming, trash-talking tell-all,...
S.E. Cupp: Kids need social media guidance, not more options
Imagine if the tobacco companies, given everything we know about the dangers of smoking, announced they were making cigarettes especially designed for kids aged 10-12. Then, imagine they said they were doing it because they believed their cigarettes were actually good for kids, that “developing age-appropriate experiences designed specifically for...
S.E. Cupp: Biden, a frenemy of our experts
He made the promise over and over again. During his run for president, and amid a worsening covid-19 crisis, Joe Biden promised if elected, he’d “follow the science.” The pledge was a clear rebuke of his then-opponent and now-predecessor, Donald Trump, who routinely and recklessly denied, questioned and even mocked...
S.E. Cupp: AOC’s dress and America’s priorities
The tickets go for $35,000 a head. A table can cost more than $200,000. The room is crammed with some of the world’s wealthiest celebrities, donning thousand-dollar gowns and suits, at an event meant to celebrate, in many ways, excess itself. Here, at the infamous annual Met Gala, is where...
S.E. Cupp: Texas, abortion and the forgotten middle
The frighteningly archaic, unworkable and very likely unconstitutional anti-abortion law out of Texas has thrust the issue back into the political foreground, and atop the heaping pile of policy issues President Biden is going to have to address — mostly without much help from Congress. One of the most deleterious...
S.E. Cupp: Biden’s epic Afghanistan miscalculation
Like many fellow Americans, I know a number of men and women who served in Afghanistan. And whatever you think of the imprudence of the Afghan war, there is no doubt our U.S. service members were doing an important job there, and have more than earned our respect and gratitude....
S.E. Cupp: Partisan, cultural divides estranging us from those we love the most
The year was 2004, and a month after Barack Obama would make his national debut at the Democratic National Convention, another Democrat made news — at the Republican National Convention in New York City. Georgia Democrat Zell Miller — a former governor who won with the help of longtime Democratic...
S.E. Cupp: Officers’ testimony at Jan. 6 hearing exposes GOP’s shame
As anyone who lived through it can tell you, the scars of 9/11 do not fade with time. Twenty years later, I’m still angry and heartbroken over what happened that day, changed forever by what I saw. When I close my eyes and imagine the New York City skyline I...
S.E. Cupp: Megyn Kelly’s vile attack on Naomi Osaka
The pioneering American journalist John Chancellor once said, “The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.” So it’s hard to see what value people like Megyn Kelly, an influential, smart and accomplished journalist, despite her well-known and well-earned controversies, are adding when they use...
S.E. Cupp: Now right wing supports population control?
I’m old enough to remember when, along with lowering the debt and deficit, anti-protectionism and so-called “family values,” a strong opposition to population control was one of the bedrock principles of the conservative movement and Republican Party. But apparently, like lowering the debt and deficit, anti-protectionism, and so-called “family values,”...
S.E. Cupp: You might be a racist if…
Nearly 30 years ago, comedian Jeff Foxworthy released his hit comedy album, “You Might Be a Redneck If … .” It was a massive success, certified triple platinum. It spawned books, a calendar, a board game and all kinds of merchandise that made Foxworthy a millionaire many times over. Its...
S.E. Cupp: Why would anyone trust Chris Christie?
Ask any publisher. Two cardinal rules of nonfiction writing are obvious and unambiguous: Know your strengths. Know your audience. No offense to the very smart folks at Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster and my own publisher, but did anyone there ask former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie...
S.E. Cupp: Why it matters that the first active NFL player just came out as gay
My best friend James reminds me every year of the day he came out to me. It was in November 2006. It wasn’t a shock to me — we’d known each other for nearly 10 years by that point, through college and our early 20s, when all the good stuff...
S.E. Cupp: 600,000 covid deaths and us — the America revealed by agonizing milestone
Monday was an ordinary day at the Big Bear grocery store in DeKalb County, Ga., where 41-year-old Laquitta Willis worked as a cashier. Just after lunch, 30-year-old Victor Lee Tucker Jr. entered the store. When he went to check out, Willis reportedly asked him to put his mask over his...
S.E. Cupp: Trump harassment continues through fundraising emails
“This is ridiculous,” blared the subject line of the fresh email in my inbox Monday. “Will you join Trump’s new site? We’ve emailed you 13x. Fail to respond=Trump knows you’ve abandoned him.” I guess the cat’s out of the bag — I have, indeed, abandoned Trump. The fundraising email, which...
S.E. Cupp: Naomi Osaka’s mental health breakthrough a game-changer
“Mental health break.” It’s a term that’s grown increasingly common in recent years, used to describe the need for some emotional and psychological self-care. But rest assured, it’s not a term our parents or grandparents’ generations grew up with, and not something they fully understand even now. So when one...
S.E. Cupp: Marjorie Taylor Greene pollutes the Republic
Editor’s note: S.E. Cupp’s column will run Saturdays, while Mona Charen’s column moves to Mondays. After the freshman congresswoman from Georgia recently lit a firestorm comparing mask mandates to the persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust, she came out with a fresh batch of crazy. In the early morning...
S.E. Cupp: Cuomo throws the book at New York
New Yorkers have yet another reason to feel betrayed by their governor, Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo is set to receive a galling amount of money — $5.1 million — for a book he wrote touting his leadership during the global pandemic. “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic” was published...
S.E. Cupp: Tale of Liz Cheney, Kevin McCarthy and Donald Trump
The woodshed: It’s a popular place in politics, meaning somewhere you metaphorically go when you’ve done something bad. Parties go there when they lose big elections. Presidential advisers are sent there when they mess up. In 2010, Gen. Stanley McChrystal was summoned to the woodshed by President Barack Obama over...
S.E. Cupp: Enough of Andrew Cuomo’s gaslighting
Any New Yorker alive in the 1980s knows the reference “Teflon Don.” It was well-earned by Gambino family mob boss John Gotti, famously acquitted in three high-profile trials in that decade. The Teflon wore off, however, in 1992, when he was finally convicted of five murders, conspiracy to commit murder,...
