Brace yourselves, I’m going to “kink shame.” Though it might feel good in the moment, tying your commitment-phobic boyfriend to the bed is not appropriate sexual behavior. Such is the lesson of Oh, Hi!, an off-kilter romantic comedy that may well be the most outrageously entertaining movie of the summer. A story of desire, frustration, […]
In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s great satire of journalism in general and foreign correspondents in particular, newspaper magnate Lord Copper sends a reporter to the African Republic of Ishmaelia to cover the crisis unfolding there. “We think it a very promising little war,” he declares. “A microcosm, as you might say, of world drama.” Phoebe Greenwood’s […]
Every year around this time, from about the age of 7 until I was 21, older people asked me the same question: “So,” they’d say with a genial chuckle, “are you ready to go back to school?” I haven’t heard that question in about 39 years, but this week I heard it again for the […]
A federal judge ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to stop providing access to Medicaid enrollees' personal data to immigration officials.
When I was in fifth grade, I aced the Presidential Fitness Test. Not because I was some athletic prodigy — I was a large child who’d later become a big man — but because we had a pull-up bar at home. My parents had installed it in a doorway, and like my 5-year-old daughter today, […]
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and aligned advocacy groups are planning Saturday protests against GOP redistricting efforts in Texas. Nearly 50 events condemning a vote proposed by Republicans in the Lone Star State will take place across 20 states nationwide. The demonstrations are dubbed "Fight the Trump Takeover.” “From Texas to California to Illinois, the...
President Trump on Tuesday threatened to allow a lawsuit against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell related to renovations of the central bank's headquarters. Trump provided no details on the nature of the lawsuit or who would bring it, but he blasted Powell in a Truth Social post and blamed his former Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin,...
President Trump reoriented the full force of the federal government to focus on fighting crime and beautifying Washington, D.C., putting the city on edge as it waits to see how that plays out and putting other Democratic cities on notice. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser called his actions "unprecedented." “We have other cities also that are...
Former White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin weighed in on President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in Washington to help curb crime rates, suggesting that he is trying to “goad Democrats." “He thinks the nation‘s capital should represent the best of America. But I think he‘s also doing something that Trump is very good...
Consumer prices rose 0.2 in July, according to data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), as the economy braces for the full imposition of President Trump's tariffs. The latest reading of the consumer price index (CPI) showed monthly and annual inflation plateauing as declining gasoline prices wiped out increases in the costs...
President Trump’s decision to take control of the Metropolitan Police Department and deploy 800 National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., is already making a visible difference. Having spent most of Monday walking the streets, I saw and felt something the city has been missing for years — relief. Seniors who had been afraid to sit on their front...
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said Monday evening that President Trump’s unusual agreement with major chipmakers Nvidia and AMD to share some of their revenue from chip sales in China is “not a good deal.” “We've got to realize we're in an intellectual war, a technology war with China, and we're in an AI [artificial intelligence]...
President Trump’s effort to lessen crime in Washington, D.C., and launch a “beautification” effort is clashing with a long tradition of Republicans criticizing and outright writing off the nation’s cities. Republicans and conservatives for years — decades, even — had amplified the failures in cities as being the result of Democratic policies and flaunted migration...
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro warned Monday night that President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in the Washington was “just the beginning,” characterizing the crime rates in the nation’s capital as “horrific.” “President Trump has rightfully declared an emergency crisis of crime and deployed the National Guard, the ATF, the...
U.S. counties with hog and cattle feeding operations may be subject to higher air pollution levels, while lacking the health insurance necessary to treat related medical problems, a new study has found. Concentrations of an airborne contaminant linked to heart and respiratory issues were much greater near these feeding sites than in counties without them,...
President Trump has endorsed Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones (R) in the Peach State’s gubernatorial race. “Highly Respected and very popular Lieutenant Governor, Burt Jones, is running to be the next Governor of the Great State of Georgia, a very special place to me in that we had a BIG Presidential Election Win just eight...
