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2028 auditions for Democratic presidential nomination kick off as blue-state governor visits key early state

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, on Sunday becomes the first of the big-name potential 2028 Democratic White House hopefuls to visit a key primary state.

Judge demands answers after 2-year-old U.S. citizen is deported

A federal judge bashed the Trump administration Friday for what he said may have been the deportation of a 2-year-old U.S. citizen.

The pope of my childhood

Twelve years ago, I was nine years old, playing on the beach and savoring the final moments of spring break 2013. Unexpectedly, my mom shouted from her beach chair, “We have a new pope!”  I dashed over to her chair, interested in this exclamation.  “He’s a Jesuit, that’s weird,” she continued. I just nodded, not sure […]

Live updates: Trump, world leaders attend Pope Francis funeral in Rome

The funeral of Pope Francis — the world's first Argentinean pontiff — will be held in Rome early Saturday as Catholics around the globe gather to pay their respects. Francis died Monday at the age of 88 from a stroke — a complication of chronic lung disease, which had plagued the pope for months. His...

Watch live: Pope Francis honored with funeral in Rome

Pope Francis's funeral is slated to begin early Saturday in Rome as Catholics mourn the loss of their leader and prepare for the conclave to replace him. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re will preside over Francis's funeral in St. Peter's Square and is expected to deliver the eulogy. Francis died earlier this week from heart failure...

‘Hey parents, leave those kids alone’

The editors at National Public Radio made a decision to mislead their readers about a current Supreme Court Case. “Supreme Court weighs who should decide public school curriculum: Judges or school boards?” Of course, the case of Mahmoud v. Taylor was about nothing of the sort. So it’s worth inquiring what was so important in […]

Bill Maher’s Trump truce: A comedian crosses the cultural divide

The White House, March 31, 2025. A surreal scene unfolds in the president’s private residence. Bill Maher, the acerbic comedian who has spent a decade roasting President Donald Trump as a narcissist, wannabe dictator, and threat to democracy, is breaking bread with the 47th president. Kid Rock, the MAGA maestro who brokered this unlikely summit, […]

Don’t fear the friend zone

For many men, especially those who consider themselves part of the online “red pill” or “black pill” communities, there is no worse fate in life than finding oneself in a “friend zone” relationship with a desirable woman. For the red pill community, named after a scene in the 1999 film The Matrix, women automatically sort […]

Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the Democrats

If a person didn’t know any better, he or she might be under the impression that Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) flew to El Salvador earlier this month to demand the release of an imprisoned political dissident fighting for democracy. No, he was just checking in on alleged MS-13 gang member and former illegal immigrant […]

The courage and honor of Chicago officer ‘5-11’

Some police officers are corrupt, some are lazy, but many do an exceptionally demanding job with courage and professionalism. Ask any veteran officer about their life’s work, and they will likely tell you two things: First, that they wouldn’t do anything else, and second, that the job takes a psychological toll. Officers see too much […]

Industrial policy for K Street

President Donald Trump promised his tariffs would revitalize American industry. He apparently meant the lobbying industry. Had Trump’s goal been to stimulate lobbying on tariffs and trade, he could not have executed a better trade policy. As you would expect, the lobbyists who are getting the most new business are close allies of Trump and […]

Star search: The future Democratic presidential field can’t escape the past

The 2028 election seems as if it is a lifetime away. Still, some Democrats are already striving for the prize of becoming the party’s presidential nominee. The problem for the Democrats is that the contenders thus far are underwhelming. Many Democrats must be thinking, “Can’t we do better?” President Donald Trump’s defeat of former Vice […]

Elite universities should stop digging themselves into a hole

Elite universities are so determined to fight the Trump administration that they’ve decided to double down on their antisemitism, and stick with anti-Israel protestors and ideological rigidity. If they hadn’t abandoned scholarly rigor years ago, they’d remember the first rule of finding yourself in a hole. Stop digging. The confrontation breaking out between universities and […]

Trump is singlehandedly destroying global conservatism

The entire Right is being undermined by President Donald Trump. When the impact of his tariffs is felt, people won’t blame interventionism, protectionism, or economic nationalism. They will blame capitalism. Voters are already clocking that Trumponomics doesn’t work. According to YouGov, 57% of people think Trump’s actions on the economy have hurt the country, while […]

Machiavelli in America

The joke about political science is that it’s not about politics, and it’s not a science. This would have surprised Aristotle, the ancient inventor of the field, and Machiavelli, its modern reinventor. Both believed politics were a means to the end Aristotle called a telos, an objective. For Aristotle, the telos was the cultivation of virtue and happiness […]

Of course courts have jurisdiction over the Alien Enemies Act

The Trump administration and its allies in Congress are attacking the Supreme Court for blocking attempts to deport illegal immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act before the alleged aliens can challenge the use of that authority in court. While the White House is right that the Supreme Court’s decision to issue such an order is […]

How Hollywood fell apart in the 30 years since ‘While You Were Sleeping’

Thirty years ago this month, I sat in a suburban movie house and watched America’s sweetheart stumble backward into love. No, the picture wasn’t Pretty Woman, Sleepless in Seattle, or You’ve Got Mail, though those 1990s classics deserve columns of their own. Rather, it was a film that nearly fell apart before it could be […]

Algorithmic friendship

A friend of mine sent me a text last month. “Hope you’re doing well,” he said. “Any time for a call, just to catch up?” It’s always nice when a friend reaches out  — this friend is particularly diligent at staying in touch — so we set a time for a chat the next day. […]

Review of ‘Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light’

Some historical fiction is uncontroversial because it presents the past merely as a backdrop for a story that does not suggest new facts or challenge widely accepted interpretations. Other successful creations go the other way, dispensing with the truth so brazenly that they render caveats fatuous because their narratives aren’t so much revisionist history as […]

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