New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill on Friday denounced the planned firing squad execution of the Fort Hood killer, whom she called "this guy who's in a wheelchair."
ESPN commentator STEPHEN A. SMITH who clashed publicly with President Trump this summer, said Friday that the president answered every question during a White House dinner Thursday night with comedian Bill Maher and musician Kid Rock.
There aren’t a lot of distinguished biographies of famous historians. The reading public is largely interested in their works, rather than their personal lives, and while some achieved a certain fame or honor in their time — Thomas Babington Macaulay, Marc Bloch, A.J.P. Taylor, Charles A. Beard, a handful of others — details of scholarly […]
Even before his nomination to the Supreme Court by President George W. Bush in 2005, Justice Samuel Alito was dogged by the nickname “Scalito.” The lazy conflation of Alito with Justice Antonin Scalia, both conservative jurists of Italian-American heritage, was irresistible to journalists who saw the court as a battleground for politics by other means, […]
Josh Goforth, a storyteller and acoustic musician in his 40s, stood at the microphone beneath the Courthouse Tent in Jonesborough, Tennessee. He had decided to start his set with a song, and since the tent was just yards from the railroad tracks, he chose a bluegrass standard called “I’m Bound to Ride.” It follows a […]
On Nov. 3, Americans will elect a new House and one-third of the Senate. By then, the war with Iran will be entering its ninth month. It began before dawn on Feb. 28, when U.S. Central Command opened Operation Epic Fury and Israeli aircraft began the companion campaign Israel called Operation Roaring Lion. A spring […]
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) recently released a report making serious accusations against the nation’s two largest teachers unions. Specifically, the committee accuses the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers of “promoting dangerous ideology instead of advancing our children’s learning.” The report details, among other things, using schoolchildren […]
WNBA player Sophie Cunningham already had three strikes against her: she’s white, she’s straight, and she regularly came to the defense of her teammate Caitlin Clark, who is disfavored by the league for similar reasons. Then Cunningham stated an obvious truth that everyone in the world believed until the day before yesterday: that men who […]
Kelly Clarkson, the original American Idol turned America’s talk show sweetheart, is known for being uniquely uncontroversial among her generation of tabloid-trailed pop stars. Hence, it’s absurd and hysterical that Clarkson began the biggest social media controversy of the week with a post on X complaining that she was “treated like Julia Roberts in Pretty […]
Ideologies often strain when they come into contact with reality. The intellectual foundations of the sexual revolution are beginning to crumble after two generations of reifying autonomy, vilifying taboos and tradition, and insisting that consent was the only thing that mattered. But the ethics of the sexual revolution persist as dogma among the elites running […]
This was the week that the United States joined Russia in dismembering Ukraine, a nation that both superpowers had promised to protect in 1994 in exchange for the surrender of its nuclear arsenal. MAGA sophists and apologists variously claim that this is either about bringing a speedy peace or about withdrawing the U.S. from an […]
Imagine preparing to attend an international educational conference, only to learn that your social media accounts, personal affiliations, and connections to Israel were being scrutinized before you even arrived. That was the situation facing 68 American Jewish educators scheduled to participate in a professional development program in Reggio Emilia, Italy, from Oct. 11–16. Instead of […]
As the Gaza war recedes from memory, perhaps Palestinian supporters in the United States might choose a new group to fight for. Campus vigils, marches, social media campaigns, and contacting one’s senator and representative would all be welcome. There’s a world of pain out there. Here’s just a small sample of important causes to consider. […]
