Oman’s strategy of calculated neutrality has run out of road. Long celebrated as a quiet diplomatic bridge between Washington and Tehran, Muscat has shattered its careful balancing act. A desperate attempt to revive a paralyzed shipping economy has transformed Oman into a central participant in a military conflict between the United States and Iran. The […]
I would love to think that Mark Zuckerberg saw the light. Meta, Zuckerberg’s massive tech company that owns Facebook and Instagram, agreed to a $17 billion settlement with 47 state attorneys general who had sued the company for deliberately addicting children to its products. In addition to the financial penalties, Meta agreed to implement features […]
We don’t know how to talk to each other these days, and that includes those who are paid to do the talking. The current generation of late-night talk show hosts, supposedly professional conversationalists, fail miserably at the job. Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show is awkward, giggly, and forced in his enthusiasms, while Stephen Colbert on The Late Show is stern, plodding, and ponderous. Credit Jimmy Kimmel for at least having a sense of joie de vivre, but his joie is strictly from the Jackass school of extroversion: The man is no great communicator but merely a back-slapping post-post-adolescent.
Minnesota has a better-than-average unemployment rate and per capita GDP. It also has a top-tier employment-to-population ratio and the third-lowest rate of poverty.
More than two dozen buses dropped hundreds of immigrants off in the parking lot of the Sam’s Club near Denver’s Central Park one December morning, and the only person there to greet them was Greg Lenora, a security guard hired by Sam’s Club to protect the parking area.
It’s tiresomely fashionable these days to complain about New Year’s Eve. It always seems forced, people say. It’s too close to Christmas. It’s too expensive to go out. It’s noisy and fake and inconvenient. To which I say: All the more reason to throw a really fun party and give your far-flung and disparate friends someplace to go. Those who want to stay home can stay home. Those who want to dress up and drink and meet new people and perch on the arm of a sofa can come to my house and mix it up in a happy and convivial way.
Like yours, my first glimpses of the Sphere in Las Vegas were online ones. I’d seen pictures and videos crop up in social media posts showing the glowing orb on the outskirts of the Vegas skyline and in the banner images atop a rash of recent stories in the press by writers in places such as the Atlantic and the Paris Review who, I noticed, had more dazzled reactions than I would have expected. In fact, they seemed to be more dazzled than they had expected. So when a recent road trip out west occasioned a stopover in Sin City, I was looking forward to seeing it in the steel.
If you live in Seattle and want to take your child to the playground near the beach, you are out of luck, thanks to pressure from the city's gay community, which wants to use the area for nude sunbathing.
Pro-Hamas activists mobbed the California legislature and shut down the state Assembly, and yet it seems California Democrats are OK with some forms of lawlessness in a capitol building to subvert the legislative process and not others.
Former Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation caused quite an uproar on social media among many left-wing acolytes. These people, who often consider themselves enlightened, espouse such things as diversity, tolerance, and inclusion. Yet they are among the most exclusive, intolerant, and homogeneous of people. They seek power, authority, and wealth for themselves and those like them. They have contempt for anyone who is different. They have fear and loathing for anyone who opposes them. Hell hath no fury like the social media scorn of people who supported Gay and her left-wing ideology.
Claudine Gay’s demotion from the presidency at Harvard University is being painted by liberal media (and Gay herself) as part of a conservative attack on liberal institutions and our elitist betters. In reality, it is Gay and her fellow liberals who are destroying the respect those institutions crave.
In her bid to become the last remaining Republican challenger to the expected renomination of former President Donald Trump, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is taking a page out of Hillary Clinton's playbook: insulting voters.
Despite a slew of eleventh-hour endorsements and appeals from Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, betting markets still believe that Donald Trump has a 3-in-4 shot of scoring the Republican presidential nomination for a third time in a row. And, despite fury from the Democrats' left-hand flank and dismal approval numbers, investors have granted Joe Biden similar odds of winning his party's nomination. But despite the betting markets' disinterest in either Iowa or wishcasting by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN), markets have priced in a nearly 1-in-3 chance that neither the current president nor the former actually win the presidency in 2024.
The old federal formula for higher education financial aid is dead. The new formula creates winners and losers. Specifically, the new formula harms middle-class families with more than one child in college at a time.
