When Barack Obama was president and feuding with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while apologizing to Arab potentates about America’s history in the region, a friend offered an observation.
Apparently, being really excited about your husband is a problem. Taylor Swift recently went viral for doing something totally normal. On Sunday Night Football, Travis Kelce caught a 13-yard touchdown pass from Patrick Mahomes, and the cameras cut straight to Taylor Swift in the suite. She held up her left hand, pointed to her wedding […]
Apparently, being really excited about your husband is a problem. Taylor Swift recently went viral for doing something totally normal. On Sunday Night Football, Travis Kelce caught a 13-yard touchdown pass from Patrick Mahomes, and the cameras cut straight to Taylor Swift in the suite. She held up her left hand, pointed to her wedding […]
State legislators and the courts have turned the death penalty into a grimly farcical process, feeding the cheapest arguments against it. The attempted execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee showcases this fact. For full context, an 18-year-old Pike and an accomplice lured Colleen Slemmer into the woods, tortured her with a box cutter and a […]
State legislators and the courts have turned the death penalty into a grimly farcical process, feeding the cheapest arguments against it. The attempted execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee showcases this fact. For full context, an 18-year-old Pike and an accomplice lured Colleen Slemmer into the woods, tortured her with a box cutter and a […]
Thirty years ago, Wayne Smith, the former chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, argued in a 1996 essay that Cuba might follow something resembling Spain’s path under Francisco Franco. Economic liberalization would create new interests, those interests would demand political representation, and the system would evolve into something else. It was a plausible […]
