President Trump's latest mandate would skyrocket space launches, with ambitious goals of landing Americans back on the moon by 2028, sending robots to Mars and ramping up launch sites, all with an emphasis on commercial ventures.
In the final weeks leading up to Election Day, most presidential nominees hope to be comfortably campaigning to the center of undecided and lower-propensity voters. Alas, the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, is stuck trying to stop record bleeding among her base. Despite promising voters a cornucopia of continued free (read: taxpayer-funded) credits […]
Once upon a time, the voters elected a president named George W. Bush. They liked him well enough to elect him a second time. He was far from perfect, and his competition was not exactly stiff. One of the men he ran against was John Kerry, for heaven’s sake. Even so, he managed to convince […]
Watching Mr. McMahon, Netflix’s glossy new “sports entertainment” docuseries, the lapsed fan recalls all manner of wrastlin’ minutiae. Fresh off her best new artist win at the 1985 Grammys, Cyndi Lauper launched a brief second career as a World Wrestling Federation “manager” and mascot. WrestleMania II, a strange and unlovely affair, felt disjointed because it […]
Would the world be a better place without the United States? Would humanity be more prosperous without Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, Google, and Visa? Would some other country have invented doughnuts, paperclips, fire hydrants, fortune cookies, sunglasses, deodorant, air conditioning, the Jerry Springer Show, and smartphones? Would the democracies, unaided, have beaten Nazism and communism? Vice […]
“The post-George Floyd riots resulted in an excess of over 15,000 black male deaths in this country.” That was Ryan Girdusky’s claim on a CNN panel in mid-October. It is a disputed claim but one grounded in theory and research. Girdusky cited a line of research finding that police disengage when anti-police sentiment flares up […]
On Election Day, Californians will face their most difficult vote yet: Should crime be illegal again? Proposition 36 will give California voters the chance to allow felony charges for serial thieves and shoplifters with a sentence of, at maximum, three years behind bars. It would also increase felony sentences for criminals who take part in […]
“You had a case in Georgia not very long ago, didn’t you?” former President Bill Clinton told voters at a campaign stop for Vice President Kamala Harris in Georgia. “They made an ad about it, a young woman who had been killed by an immigrant. Yeah, well, if they’d all been properly vetted, that probably […]
The March of Time was a popular radio series from 1931-1945 and regular feature in movie theaters from 1935-1951. As novelist John Dunning wrote, its purpose was to produce “dramatized news events, elaborately staged with sound effects and music, put together like a newspaper—often on deadline, with impact and accuracy its twin goals.” These newsreels […]
By itself, it was just one of many confrontational moments during Fox News anchor Bret Baier’s interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. “Come on, you and I both know what I’m talking about,” Harris pleaded after Baier noted that 79% of voters say the country is on the wrong track after 3 1/2 years of […]
Replacing a legend is one of the most thankless jobs. Each year, 20-something athletes crumble under the pressure of taking the place of their franchise’s departed hero, even with a small army of coaches and consultants behind them. The struggle to live up to enormous expectations is one of the many little dramas that make […]
I enlisted in the Army National Guard to pay for my degree in English. When I asked the recruiter to slot me in the infantry due to that job’s short training time, the man had his doubts. I had my own doubts. I’d seen the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the masterful performance of […]
In the summer of 1831, judgment came for white slaveholders in Southampton County, Virginia. Nat Turner, a Methodist preacher, organized a war party of the enslaved and dealt a deadly blow against those holding them in bondage. Suddenly, what had once been a backwater near the Great Dismal Swamp became the site of the deadliest […]
October comes but once a year and is regularly recognized as a favorite month for many people and with good reason. The changing of the seasons from summer to autumn arguably peaks in October. This comes with a comfortable seasonal decrease in temperatures. Leaves change colors from green to orange, yellow, and brown, which is […]
Kamala Harris is losing black support, so she's doubling down on the increasingly unpopular notion that certain benefits should be reserved only for minorities...
