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Trump admin seeks emergency relief of Boasberg contempt threat

The short filing comes after Judge Boasberg, who tried to block the first wave of deportation flights to El Salvador, threatened to hold some officials in criminal contempt.

LGBTQ Christians invoke ‘righteous rage’ at Capitol during Holy Week

A community of LGBTQ+ Christians began Holy Week with a proclamation of “righteous rage and holy hope" at the U.S. Capitol in Washington Monday.

Love avocados? Biden admin caving to Mexican cartels could have devastating impact on wildly popular fruit

The Biden administration ending a USDA inspection program for Mexican avocados following cartel violence could affect US avocado growers if weevils infest farms, experts warn.

Texas measles cases are underreported, response hurt by funding cuts, CDC scientist says

A CDC senior scientist provided an update on the measles outbreak on Tuesday, while taking reporter questions about the agency's response.

Defunding NPR and PBS through rescissions is a good start

President Donald Trump plans to ask Congress to rescind the funds it appropriated for public broadcasting, which is a good start in defunding NPR and PBS. The legislative branch must do that and then move to dissolve the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Rescission deals with the immediate. It applies instant pain to the public broadcasters […]

Amy Coney Barrett is not beholden to Trump

Justice Amy Coney Barrett is the object of intense scorn after siding with the liberal justices on the high court this week. Barrett was the president’s third nominee for the Supreme Court during his first term. As a conservative-leaning jurist with a large family and deep religious faith, Barrett was mocked by the leftist media […]

Capitol Hill on Thune control

Congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump scored a big win on April 10 when the House voted for the Senate’s budget framework 216 to 214. Big? It was ’uge, as the president sometimes puts it. Here’s why. It means the 2017 tax cuts are likely to be renewed, not expire at the end of the […]

In the Janet Malcolm archives

Janet Malcolm is remembered for the clarity of her vision, and what she saw most acutely was our blindness. “The phenomenon of transference — how we all invent each other according to early blueprints—was Freud’s most original and radical discovery,” she writes in the opening pages of Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (1980). “The idea of […]

Banned books vs. the Good Book

Liberal activist Kyle McDaniel might be an ideologue, a thief, and a cad, but give him this: He’s no hypocrite. McDaniel’s former employer has sued him for embezzling company funds and spending them on personal indulgences including strip clubs. But this melds pretty well his record in politics. When McDaniel was sworn in for his […]

More like dire frankenwolves

Time magazine wants you to believe scientists have brought dire wolves back from the dead. Popularized by the HBO series Game of Thrones, dire wolves are the larger, whiter cousins of the modern-day gray wolves. They once roamed North and South America from approximately 150,000 to 10,000 years ago. According to Beth Shapiro, chief science […]

Mothers go to space

Someone missed the space travel invite, and she doesn’t seem happy about it. Actress Olivia Munn recently ripped into the all-female crew set to take an 11-minute flight through the Earth’s atmosphere on Monday in a Blue Origin rocket. “There’s a lot of people who can’t even afford eggs,” Munn complained on TODAY with Jenna […]

Gentle problem-solving

“The slower you do things,” a very wise person once told me, “the more time you seem to have.” This is excellent advice. I tend to rush through things — meals, museums, writing columns — on the mistaken belief that if I can just do everything faster, I’ll have more time for other things. It’s […]

When the Navy hit the charts

In a recent column, I wrote about my friend, Lt. David Pingenot, who joined the U.S. Navy in 1965 partly to see a body of water larger than the Iowa stretch of the Cedar River. Pingenot became a technician for the sound surveillance system, which utilized a system of hydrophones that monitored sound channels in […]

Hungary’s government is trying to make more babies — it’s not going so great

BUDAPEST, Hungary — A dozen children sprint across the green lawn around the forsythia bushes, which are in full saffron-colored bloom. Sárkány rét (“Dragon Meadow”) is a beautiful park overlooking the Danube, with a view of Budapest’s famous landmarks: the Buda Castle, the famous parliament building, and the Basilica of St. Stephen. Gabor, a father […]

Did ChatGPT write US tariff policy?

Among the major shocks of this month’s Trump administration announcement of massive tariffs slapped on dozens of countries worldwide lies a less prominent but arguably more important one: The entire tariff scheme may just have been produced by artificial intelligence.  The fallout from Liberation Day — what the White House labeled April 2, the day […]

Albuquerque: The crime crisis you haven’t heard about

Most people would not think of New Mexico and “crime” in the same sentence without thinking about Breaking Bad. But Albuquerque is in the middle of a crime crisis that most people may not have heard about, bringing up all the same issues that have already been examined in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los […]

Seth Rogen’s The Studio satirizes a long-gone Hollywood

The Studio, Seth Rogen’s new auteur project on Apple TV+, deserves credit for openly bragging about how expensive it is. In its second episode, the real-life actress and director Sarah Polley schemes her way into getting Rogen’s Matt Rennick, head of the fictional Continental Studios, to spend $800,000 for the rights to a Rolling Stones […]

The Democrats embrace a culture of violence

Should it be surprising that over half of Americans who identify as “left of center” believe that assassinating President Donald Trump is justifiable?  That’s what a new study from Rutgers University has found. According to the survey produced by the university’s Social Perception Lab that asked 1,264 U.S. citizens about their attitudes toward political violence, […]

Douglas Murray on a matter of life Vs. death

Russian Jewish novelist Vasily Grosman, who was the first journalist to see the Nazi death camp Treblinka, once wrote, “Anti-Semitism is … a mirror for the failings of individuals, social structures and State systems. Tell me what you accuse the Jews of — I’ll tell you what you’re guilty of.” In On Democracies and Death […]

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