Since President Joe Biden took office, there have been two competing accounts of what is going on with the immigration process and the southern border. The first, via the Biden administration, is that everything is more or less under control — there has just been a slight uptick of migrants entering the country. The view […]
It may also come as a surprise to the relatives, friends, and roommates whom I’ve forced to watch the Tony Awards over the years that this year I didn’t watch until this magazine’s editor asked me to write about the awards show. But while I remain as steadfast a theater lover as ever, I just […]
Acceptance of a freakish gift of nature shouldn’t be grounds for a civil penalty, much less a jail stint. Yet that’s what happened June 12 in Point Clear, Alabama, when over-officious game wardens began ticketing people for scooping up seafood from a “jubilee.” The eastern shore of Mobile Bay is the only place in the […]
Cultural decline can be measured in a thousand different ways, but surely one of them is the way in which the figure of Death is personified in the movies. In 1957, Ingmar Bergman’s classic film The Seventh Seal offered Death in the form of a blank-faced man who wears a flowing black robe, speaks in […]
On Wednesday, Illinois GOP Chairman Don Tracy resigned. He said he resigned because of his frustration in dealing with divisions in the state party. His resignation does come after a tumultuous period for the Illinois GOP, where interpersonal rivalries have taken precedence over responsible politics. This is just a sign of the general trend in […]
Argentina’s new free-market President Javier Milei is lapping Colombia’s Gustavo Petro and Brazil’s Inacio Lula da Silva in terms of economic achievement and the...
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) focus on crime is purely political, which is made even more clear by his efforts to push Proposition 47 repeal off the ballot. California Democrats have been trying to bribe retailers with specialized protections in order to get them to pull their support from repealing Prop 47. Prop 47 lessened criminal […]
San Francisco may have recently won the top spot as the worst-run city in the United States, but Oakland finished second-worst in that same study, and San Francisco’s neighbor across the bay is having a rough couple of days. First, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on the city’s budget woes, including a $292 million gap […]
