Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world...
The beautiful game of football, or as I’ll begrudgingly call it for this review, despite being a Canadian, “soccer,” is a popular, successful, and financially viable sport in most parts of the world. Until recently, it had been a very different story here in North America, at least north of the Rio Grande. The North […]
Twenty-five years ago, Amy Sherman-Palladino burst onto the scene with Gilmore Girls, which earned critical acclaim for its quirky characters and rapid-fire dialogue. After Gilmore Girls, it took Sherman-Palladino a while to land another hit. She and Daniel Palladino, her husband and creative partner, created The Return of Jezebel James, which was canceled after just […]
Like most Marvel offerings, Thunderbolts* requires so much background knowledge that fine print seems appropriate, which may explain the asterisk at the end of the official name of the film. That typographical addendum, much discussed by Marvel fanboys during the promotional lead-up, turns out not to mean anything at all, unless one counts an in-joke […]
It may not surprise you to learn that I was a pretty good student. Not perfect, of course — I put everything off to the last minute and did a fair amount of late-night cramming when I was in high school and college — but when the grades went out, I was almost always near […]
After weeks of higher education playing defense against an aggressive Trump administration, Harvard University is now taking point on fighting back. The university — the oldest in America and richest in the world — is offering a rallying point for other colleges with its Monday lawsuit against the administration, a sharp counterpoint to other schools,...
A jury in New York ruled Tuesday that The New York Times did not defame former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) with an editorial about gun violence in 2011. Tuesday's ruling comes nearly three years after a separate jury found the Times not liable for damages over the op-ed, which linked her to the deadly...
The Trump administration is missing an opportunity to bring the Islamic Republic of Iran to heel, as it seems to want to strike a deal similar to the Obama-era nuclear deal, instead of using the opportunity to redefine the terms and end Iran's destabilizing factor on the world stage.
A federal judge in Colorado ordered the Trump administration on Tuesday to provide Venezuelan migrants detained there 21 days notice before deporting them under the Alien Enemies Act. The order only applies to migrants housed within the state, but it nonetheless deals a blow to the administration, which in some cases elsewhere was providing migrants 24 hours...
The White House on Tuesday defended President Trump's ongoing attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, which have fueled investor concerns in recent days. Trump on Monday called Powell a “major loser” and suggested the Fed's previous rate cuts were aimed at helping former President Biden. A dive in the stock market was accelerated after Trump’s...
President Trump and Vice President Vance have expressed their sympathy and support for India in the wake of a deadly attack on tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir, with the Prime Minister promising that those responsible will be brought to justice.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed reporters Tuesday afternoon after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth went on "Fox & Friends" to defend himself amid a new Signal chat scandal. The New York Times on Sunday reported the Pentagon chief shared information in a Signal group chat with family members and his personal lawyer, just weeks...
The longtime executive producer of "60 Minutes" is leaving the program, writing to staff on Monday he could no longer preside over the Sunday evening show objectively as it faces increasing threats and a multimillion-dollar lawsuit from President Trump. "My 60 Minutes priorities have always been clear. Maybe not smart, but clear," Bill Owens, executive...
Attorney General Pam Bondi will lead the first meeting of the White House task force assigned to "eradicate anti-Christan bias," just days after the Easter holiday. The panel will address what President Trump described during February's National Prayer Breakfast as attacks on religious liberty and on Christians in particular. The event comes after Trump moved...
Harvard Law professor and former Biden and Obama adviser Laurence Tribe is ripping President Trump’s attempted “takeover” at Harvard, calling it a move suited to a dictator such as Adolf Hitler, Viktor Orban or Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Tribe joined CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday to discuss the Trump administration’s continued efforts to punish Harvard after...
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) asked the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to investigate Trump administration officials’ use of Signal and other third-party messaging applications. Schiff, a frequent critic of President Trump, urged NARA to make sure the messages sent over the encrypted messaging app by Trump officials are preserved and warned that, apart from...
