A fence is not a natural place to sit, whether chain link or picket. The metaphor of "fence-sitting" has long connoted something improper, or at least unfitting.
This morning, as I unfolded my newspaper, a small envelope slipped out. It was a “holiday” card — about as nondenominational and unspecific as they come — and it wished me and everyone in my “household” a very happy merry whatever season’s greetings.
A lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday claimed that the State Department was funding technology that could “render disfavored press outlets unprofitable.”
Megan Barry, you will learn from an Axios piece on her entry into a potentially competitive House race, is a pro-choice Democrat “with excellent name recognition” because she is the former mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, as well as “a medical doctor and former state senator from Clarksville."
For those of us who grew up watching a parade of early-aughts starlets in the tabloids tumbling out of coke-fueled nights at the clubs, all too often without underwear, the relatively straight-laced celebrity of Taylor Swift has always been refreshing. Since her teenage years, her rise to fame has always been characterized more by her undeniable merit than theatrics or notoriety. Since being signed to a major record label at just 14 years old, the now-33-year-old musician has become the highest-earning female artist of all time across 10 original studio albums, four rerecorded studio albums, five extended plays, four live albums, and nearly 20 years of touring, the latest of which is projected to generate more than $5 billion.
The Issue: University presidents’ testimony before Congress about hate speech on college campuses. On Tuesday, the president of Harvard, Claudine Gay, as well as...
