The most remarkable thing about Joshua Kendall’s new biography of cartoonist Garry Trudeau is that it exists at all. The Doonesbury creator is notoriously reclusive. He has been called “the J.D. Salinger of comics.” In 1975, Time magazine told the then-27-year-old Trudeau that they wanted to do a cover feature on him. He agreed to […]
After six years of dealing with growing numbers of unprepared students in their classrooms, math and science professors at the University of California have had enough. In an open letter addressed to the UC Board of Regents, more than 800 faculty members have detailed the harm caused to their educational mission by lowered admissions standards. […]
The Los Angeles mayoral race heads toward a likely runoff as Karen Bass, Spencer Pratt and Nithya Raman make final pitches before Election Day on Tuesday.
Marxist influencer Hasan Piker defended the Singham-funded activist network at a New Jersey ICE protest and dismissed federal scrutiny of his Cuba travel.
The Republican Party needs its Sir Geoffrey Howe moment. Not another sanctimonious lecture from the Never Trump crowd. Republicans need something far more serious — and potentially far more consequential: a credible Trumpist willing to stand up and tell President Donald Trump that his administration is drifting toward political catastrophe. Howe, the influential Conservative Party […]
Shortly after being deposed by Republican primary voters last Tuesday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) took a parting shot at his Jewish bugbear: “I would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede, and it took a while to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv.” This wasn’t the first anti-Israel conspiracy […]
As a university president, I talk to countless students every day. Many of them are brilliant and possess skills you cannot teach in a lecture hall. These students often choose to pursue careers in less lucrative areas because they feel a calling to help others. When the new federal loan caps take effect this July, […]
Walk into any regional airport in America, and you’ll likely see a Cirrus aircraft on the tarmac. Sleek, American-made, often bearing the American flag. What you won’t see is the fine print: Cirrus Aircraft, the largest manufacturer of piston-powered general aviation planes in the United States, has been wholly owned since 2011 by a subsidiary […]
Tedious and trite do not even begin to describe the final season of The Boys. Blind to his own biases, showrunner Eric Kripke has taken every element that made the penultimate season such a slog and doubled down, turning what began as a darkly comic superhero spoof into something resembling Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show laced with lewd […]
For decades, Democrats and progressives have sought to claim human rights as their own. They depicted conservatives as Cold War-obsessed, uninterested in either freedom or democracy. For many liberals, the Cuban Revolution was about human rights. So too were the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Every Latin American dictator was a Republican friend; every revolutionary was an […]
China’s biotech industry is only barely trailing — and in some areas, is already surpassing — America’s. China now initiates roughly the same number of clinical trials for novel drugs as the United States. Chinese biotechs are far outpacing their American competitors in the stock market. Hong Kong’s biotech index climbed about 80% last year, […]
Our nation’s schools are failing to teach our children to read, and a new report shows that the learning loss began more than a decade ago, well before COVID-19. Fortunately, the same report found that some districts have reversed the decline through tried-and-true teaching methods. Now we need the political will to implement those reforms […]
