President Donald Trump's push to acquire Greenland added a new security dimension to Iceland's EU referendum, with 275,000 eligible voters weighing in.
Conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson said Friday that President Trump should be removed from office if he is considering using nuclear weapons first, saying even entertaining the possibility should disqualify a president from serving. “The second any president actively considers the first use of nuclear weapons, that person should be removed from office immediately, because that’s...
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed apologized Saturday for comments he made following an attack on a Detroit-area synagogue earlier this year, as he seeks to ease concerns among Jewish voters ahead of the November election. “I made a mistake,” El-Sayed said during an appearance before the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus at the state party’s...
Everyone knows that Johannes Gutenberg, he of the Gutenberg Bible, invented the movable-type printing press, suddenly making the mass production of books possible and, therefore, books themselves affordable for nearly all. But hardly anyone thinks about all the technological developments and all the stages of human inventiveness that made possible those 180-odd copies of the […]
F. Scott Fitzgerald told us that the very rich are different from you and me. The main character of Teddy Wayne’s sixth novel, who gains admittance to a rarefied realm of the super-wealthy near Cape Cod, is acutely aware of how far he stands apart from those sitting pretty. But instead of keeping his distance, […]
NBA Hall of Fame center Bill Walton, who died of colon cancer last month, was the best player in the world at his peak. As described in David Halberstam’s book The Breaks of the Game, a merely somewhat healthy Walton led the Portland Trail Blazers to an NBA championship in 1977, defeating fellow former all-everything […]
In 2022, John Kaag and his family bought an old farmhouse near the Concord River in Massachusetts. Attracted by the history of the area, Kaag, a philosophy professor, was also drawn by its proximity to the homes and haunts of those Kaag calls his “intellectual heroes,” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and […]
Caitlin Clark is bringing much-needed eyeballs to the WNBA after its long history of being an afterthought in the sports landscape. And WNBA players cannot stand it. Clark has been the target of sustained media criticism from WNBA players even before she was drafted as jealousy over her high profile took root around the league. […]
Between its unnerving cartoon animatronics, quirky theme song, and the very steep and wet drops that earned the attraction its name, Splash Mountain was one of the Disney theme park rides that had a unique character and attraction that could not be missed. I shamefully admit that despite making a handful of trips to Disney […]
Years ago, California was considered a leader in governance. Thanks to the size of its markets and the perception of being on the cutting edge of technology, California standards often became national standards. But no more. After a decade of solid Democratic Party control, California is now a basket case. From homelessness to crime to […]
Somewhere, amid its fart jokes, Netflix’s new comedy series Tires explores the daily struggle for contentment, or whatever passes for it in the meantime. Tires, the brainchild of comedian Shane Gillis, co-written and co-produced alongside frequent collaborators Steve Gerben and John McKeever, follows the troubles of a failing branch of Valley Forge Automotive, located in […]
Bernardo Raul Castro Mata, the illegal immigrant accused of shooting two cops, reportedly admits he’s a member of the murderous Tren de Aragua gang:...
