The Republican senator who had effectively blocked confirmation of President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Reserve said Sunday he was dropping his opposition after the Department of Justice ended its investigation of the current central bank chair.
Martin Suarez opens his dramatic account of his life as an undercover FBI special agent assigned to infiltrate Colombian drug cartels from 1988 to 1994, Inside the Cartel: How An Undercover FBI Agent Smuggled Cocaine, Laundered Cash and Dismantled a Colombian Narco Empire, with the August 1994 attempt on his life. “The assassin pointed his […]
With his tall, thin body and his long arms and legs, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) looked more like a bag of bones than a world-famous Scottish author. It was his eyes, though, which suggested his literary genius. His friend Mark Twain called them “Stevenson’s special distinction and commanding feature.” His wife, Fanny, said, “Behind them, […]
In the time between the release of Midnights, her October 2022 mega-blockbuster, and Dec. 8, 2024, when the “Eras Tour” closed in Vancouver, Taylor Swift achieved a level of success beyond what nearly any sane human mind could process. Just as anyone with a normative experience of reality cannot not know what it’s like to […]
Years ago, I met a fellow veteran at a promotion event for one of my novels. The man suffered from traumatic brain injury, sustained in an improvised explosive device attack on his vehicle during his deployment to Iraq. Due to his injury, he wore one of those soft helmets, and he misunderstood basic social cues. […]
For mostly happy reasons, I have spent the past 10 years moving into smaller and smaller living quarters. When I tell people this, they either look at me sadly and think Poor guy is going through some bad stuff, or they brighten and loudly say something like, That’s so great! I wish I could do […]
On Aug. 15, 1824, as the summer sun sank over New York Harbor, a huge crowd pressed against the wharves, straining for a glimpse of the Cadmus. Church bells rang out as the ship eased into view, and on its deck stood the figure they had all come to see: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de […]
When screenwriter, playwright, television scenarist, and denouncer of leftist pieties and prejudices Paddy Chayefsky wrote the movie Network in 1976, he made television seem awfully small. Here was a film, released by that most forward-looking of studios, United Artists, with A-list movie stars (Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall) and several bona fide screen legends (William Holden, […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent must demand that it scrap its pointless climate targets — and redirect its attention to its true objective: lifting poor...
One year ago last Friday, former Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nearly nine years in prison after being convicted for breaching her own election offices in the heart of Colorado’s Trump Country. Now the 70-year-old is pleading for release from prison, claiming she’s broke even as a new Florida-based legal team and revamped […]
