Harvard University tops all U.S. colleges with nearly $4.5 billion in foreign funding, and Sen. Tom Cotton wants the Education Department to investigate.
My disillusionment with politics began in 2005. I was interning at the White House, fresh off George W. Bush’s reelection, which also saw the GOP claim the Senate and House. Optimism was in the air, at least for conservatives, but it didn’t last. The Iraq War soon took a very dark turn, and Hurricane Katrina […]
Those of us who grew up in the 1980s are apt to associate the teen movie with other hallmarks of that decade’s culture, such as big hair, the Walkman, or Trump: The Game. Yet a new book demonstrates that the genre neither began nor ended with the Reagan administration. For better or for worse, movies […]
“My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years.” The speaker was Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The occasion was his testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. “Wearing a wearable” is a goofy phrase in itself, and to the uninitiated, it’s almost nonsense. […]
Professional sports: Fun for the whole family, assuming the family is rich or just watching from home. The surge in ticket prices for live sports has made it costlier for fans to go to games in recent years, and especially costly for fans with families. From 1999 to 2020, the price of tickets to sporting events has grown more than twice […]
Caitlin Clark has the strangest job in professional sports right now. She’s the most popular player in a league where most of her coworkers can’t stand her. You see it in the numbers. The fans voted her first for the All-Star Game with over 1 million votes. The players ranked her ninth among guards. Not […]
“When it comes to pronouns, we don’t even have any!” said Tibor Várady, owner of Espresso Embassy, a popular cafe and specialty coffee shop in downtown Budapest. Várady’s comment is a joking reference to his native Hungarian, a famously difficult language that has no equivalents for the English pronouns “he” and “she,” and the atmosphere […]
With the One Big Beautiful Bill Act now law, there could be a spike in consumer energy bills in states represented by Republicans and handouts to blue-state residents. That’s terrible news for everyday Americans and for members of the GOP hoping to hold on to their narrow majority in the Senate. However, it could have […]
If you haven’t already been killed by the great net neutrality repeal of 2017 or the Title X gag rule of 2019, you’re in luck. For the umpteenth time in the past decade, Democrats are promising that anywhere between tens of thousands and “millions” of people will die because of a Republican domestic priority. This […]
Third parties don’t win. It is perhaps the last of the old rules that still holds. As President Donald Trump put it in response to Elon Musk’s launch of the America Party, “I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely ‘off the rails,’ essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks. He […]
If Apple TV+’s new series Stick were any more affirming of left-coded mental-health assumptions, we’d have to watch it on the American Psychiatric Association’s TV channel. Stick is for therapy bros, for trauma-mongers, for chicks who need trigger warnings on their trigger warnings. The show stars a breathy Owen Wilson as Pryce Cahill, a former […]
Raynor and Moth Winn’s world collapsed when they were in their 50s. The British couple lost their home and savings after investing in a friend’s business, then Moth was diagnosed with a rare and fatal degenerative brain disorder. Out of money and running out of time, they took to the road, camping along southwestern England’s […]
When Jurassic World premiered in 2015, it had been 14 years since the release of the previous installment in the series, the very polarizing Jurassic Park III (2001). So it only made sense that we’d meet a whole new cast of characters. Today, only three years have passed since the last film, the infuriatingly bad […]
“The Muslim Brotherhood,” the late historian Barry Rubin once remarked, “is by far the most successful Islamist group in the world.” But nearly a century after its creation, and decades after it spawned dozens of terrorist organizations, the Brotherhood isn’t designated as a terrorist group by the United States. Now, some in the U.S. Congress […]
The day after the odometer on his father’s 1973 Ford Maverick “turned over” from 99,999 to 100,000, my friend Scott skipped school for the first and probably last time in his life. Can you blame him? After all, everyone in our rather upscale suburb had seen the eight-year-old compact Ford rolling around at a walking […]
