House lawmakers on Thursday voted to ban greyhound racing, a betting sport already prohibited in many states, thanks to pressure from animal rights organizations.
Gov. Janet Mills' exit from the Maine Senate race handed Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer another public defeat, sharpening doubts about his political instincts and his hold on Senate Democratic leadership.
President Trump pulled his year-old nomination of Dr. Casey Means for surgeon general Thursday and replaced her with Dr. Nicole Saphier as his third nominee for the vacant post.
Notwithstanding its title, Harvard professor and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore’s new book, We The People: A History of the U.S. Constitution, is not a history of the Constitution but of constitutional amendments — that is, of efforts to change the Constitution. And the reason that the subject interests her is that she doesn’t think […]
Before it was swamped by weird and lurid images, bizarre and titillating video clips, and offensive or obscurantist memes, the internet produced what may be the final flowering of literary culture. Emails, forum threads, blogs, and even tweets and status updates were mostly text. More writing was produced in the early years of the 21st […]
Josh Naylor weighs 235 pounds and runs with a sprint speed of 24.5 feet per second, ranking 532nd out of 546 measured MLB players. He’s built like a beer-league softball cleanup hitter, the kind of stocky first baseman who looks like he should be managing a car dealership, not stealing bases. And yet, in his […]
John Grisham’s The Rainmaker started life as a novel (1995), became a film by Francis Ford Coppola (1997), and is now a television series on USA and Peacock. Somewhere, creative teams are readying a rock opera and a Saturday morning cartoon. The new show is better described as an homage to the book and movie […]
It has begun to dawn on Americans that our vacation from history has ended, and a new Cold War is upon us. It will not be fought only in the trenches of Donbass, in the naval provocations of the South China Sea, or even in the scramble for raw materials that drives economies. It will also be […]
SCRANTON, Pa. — This Pennsylvanian city has long been lauded as the “home of” several Democrats running for higher office statewide: Bob Casey, the late governor, and his son, the former Sen. Bob Casey Jr., and Hillary Clinton’s father, Hugh Rodham. Hillary was baptized here and spent her summers as a child on Lake Winola, located about 15 miles […]
I am on a lively, fun group text chat with some of my classmates at Princeton Theological Seminary, which is not a sentence I ever thought I’d write and probably not one you ever thought you’d read. But life is a rich tapestry, and you never know, do you? We share clips and memes and […]
In February, Vice President JD Vance made waves for his address at the 61st Munich Security Conference that raised threats to free speech in Europe. Citing various examples of governmental attacks on free speech, such as prosecution of silent prayer and online comments critical of feminism, Vance told European leaders that their own practices rejected […]
Health Secretary Robert Kennedy's Senate testimony Thursday made one thing crystal clear: He won't be restoring sanity to our public-health bureaucracies, desperate as the...
