House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) called the images of people, including children, starving in Gaza "disturbing and heartbreaking," but insisted that Hamas "has stolen the food," despite reports from the Israeli military that there is no proof that the Palestinian militant group had systematically stolen aid. Johnson, during an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press,"...
“The thing about zebras,” my safari guide said, “is that they always look a little fat. But that’s just gas. Zebras are full of gas.” I am on a 10-day safari trip in Botswana, and so far I have learned that enough baboons can take down a leopard and that zebras are flatulent. I have […]
Like most reality TV shows, like most TV shows, like most storytelling, period, TLC’s My 600-lb Life depends on a certain predictable, unchanging format. But the specific way in which this one expresses its repetitiveness is uniquely depressing. The pattern approximately mirrors the tradition of celebrating Fat Tuesday just before Lent in cities like New […]
Military humor is often crude and sometimes too terrible to explain in detail in the hallowed pages of this fine, family-friendly magazine. Nevertheless, gross humor that would disturb many civilians is an important part of the military. So, in the spirit of conveying to you, faithful reader, a better sense of the military life, the […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is incapable of getting his employees to show up to the office more than two days a week. This is an indictment of his leadership and reveals a flaw that should be fatal to his presidential aspirations. It is also an indictment of the California Democratic Party, which has shown itself […]
In 2003, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland introduced the concept of fast zombies to popular culture with their apocalypse film 28 Days Later. In 2025, I have finally forgiven them for it. 28 Years Later comes 23 years after the release of 28 Days Later. If you’re confused by the titling format, just […]
The campus novel may have its origins in the early 1950s with Mary McCarthy’s satire The Groves of Academe and Kingsley Amis’s comic caper Lucky Jim, but for many contemporary readers, the genre is best defined by Donna Tartt’s 1992 Gothic murder mystery The Secret History. That book inspired a raft of college-set thrillers, most […]
Most lives would be more than adequately covered by biographies released when the subject was 67 and 72. Clint Eastwood is not most people. He’s directed 17 films since that latter biography was published, more than many directors make in their entire lives. Eastwood, at 94, was almost certainly the oldest director to helm a Hollywood […]
Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is giving business leaders fair warning: He promised he'd tax them and wealthy New Yorkers if elected — and...
