Zohran Mamdani's Office of Mass Engagement draws fierce criticism after a commissioner with DSA ties outlined plans to build leaders and organize people.
Small businesses have been through hell these last four years. The economy has been volatile, with inflation and input costs skyrocketing due to the Biden administration’s reckless spending policies. If the little guy was able to overcome these obstacles, he was met with burdensome laws and regulations, taking whatever wind was left from the sails of his […]
Whether or not Donald Trump gets to welcome home hostages released under the Gaza ceasefire deal, there are clear parallels with the 1981 end of the Iran hostage crisis that saw Ronald Reagan begin his presidency by greeting 66 Americans held in Tehran for 444 days. On Jan. 15, 466 days after the hostages were […]
Where have all the ‘Never Trumpers’ gone? I don’t mean the Republicans who went over to the other side and voted for Kamala Harris. They have joined the opposition, so to speak. No, I mean Mike Pence and Paul Ryan and the other conservatives who, in pre-MAGA days, were recognized as the backbone of the […]
In Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise’s character must train a team of hotshot pilots to take out a facility in an unnamed country with snow-covered mountains. Were they training for a mission in Switzerland? Hollywood was so wary of having any villains identified in this one that pilots from the generic foreign adversary were literally […]
Families have been ranching on the lush green pastures of Point Reyes, a peninsula that juts into the Pacific Ocean about 30 miles north of San Francisco, since before California was a state. But no more. Thanks to a lawsuit filed by environmental extremists, and a settlement agreed to by the Biden administration, the land […]
Released Nov. 24, 1956, the movie Giant was a blockbuster hit. It earned $35 million in ticket sales during its original studio release as well as $12 million in rentals in the United States and Canada alone. It won several Academy Awards including best motion picture, best director, and best actor. James Dean, the star, […]
Marcus Freeman coaches the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team. Last Thursday, he guided his team to a thrilling victory in the college football Orange Bowl over Penn State University. After the game, Freeman and his team celebrated and received the traditional Orange Bowl trophy. During the trophy ceremony, Freeman was interviewed by sportscaster Molly […]
People have lost their homes and family members. Rebuilding will take time and resources. Yet, the crisis is largely out of the news. No, it’s not the Los Angeles fires. We’re talking about the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina. Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina in September, and residents have been picking up the […]
The most classic golf movies — think Caddyshack, Happy Gilmore, or Tin Cup — all play off the same tension, which is that golf culture, quite apart from the mechanics of the actual game, is fundamentally stuffy. The joke of all of those movies is to envision the preposterous, nearly unimaginable reality of golf that’s […]
It is hard not to view the latest film by Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Northman) as intentionally correcting the perplexity Timothy Garton Ash writes about in his Stasi-haunted memoir, The File: “If only I had met, on this search, a single clearly evil person.” Being so understanding that one cannot understand so much as […]
A popular New Yorker cartoon published around the time of the first Trump election features an angry-looking man on a plane saying, “These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly the plane?” Drawing the obvious analogy between the plane and the country, the cartoon is in fact […]
Among all creatures with the capacity to be cartoonified, the canine can express the most while saying the least. That Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig speak with such verbosity is arguably a sign of the relative inexpressiveness of rabbits, ducks, and pigs. By contrast, the great animated dogs can communicate empathy, amusement, contempt, […]
