“MADNESS!! AUDITIONS Folk & Roll Musicians-Singers for acting roles in new TV series. Running parts for 4 insane boys, age 17-21. Want spirited Ben Frank’s-types. Have courage to work. Must come down for interview.” Over 400 young men responded to the September 1965 ads in Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. Five months later, NBC […]
In December 1998, seeking college tuition assistance, I voluntarily enlisted in the Iowa Army National Guard. I did not have enough courage to do this, but growing up in the 1980s and ’90s, I had read about men who’d gone to jail for dodging military service. I held the erroneous assumption that once I signed […]
Please don’t interpret this as a cry for help, but: I like to eat alone sometimes. Not always, of course. No one enjoys a convivial dinner with friends and companions as much as I do, but every so often I like to sit at the bar of a local restaurant with a book or the […]
Critics of socialism often confront New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and other advocates of socialist policies with socialism’s long record of failure wherever it has been tried. They might as well be talking to a wall. While the extent to which socialism’s dismal record matters to […]
Federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations very recently searched the Washington home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) under a court-authorized warrant, seizing her phone, in a criminal investigation of alleged fraud in her family’s immigration paperwork. The next day, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro confirmed on national television that her office is also examining the congresswoman’s […]
On Oct. 27, 1980, my family and I landed in Miami, newcomers from Colombia. On Nov. 12, 1991, I raised my right hand in the New York State Supreme Court in Rochester and became an American. Next week, I mark 46 years in this country and, just over two weeks later, 35 years as a […]
President Donald Trump blames Ukraine for continuing its defensive war against Russia. He does so even as Ukraine has agreed to ceasefires proposed by Trump but rejected or broken systematically by Russia. Trump pretends that Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s energy network are intended to increase American gas prices rather than, as they are, to drain […]
Early voting is surging in several key battleground states, giving Democrats hope that their strength in midterm polling could translate into a turnout advantage in November. In North Carolina, more than 1.2 million early ballots have been accepted, a 37 percent increase from the same point leading up to the 2022 midterms, according to an...
