Democrats will soon have a verdict on just how much their precious enthusiasm is worth outside of the confines of deep blue cities and low-turnout primary contests.
Disney live-action reboots really can’t win. Despite being hailed by some as its best cash grab, that is, remake to date, Lilo & Stitch is caught up in controversy. Of course, it has nothing on the Snow White reboot, but a significant change to the end of the movie has infuriated fans on the Right and Left. In […]
In 2017, did it seem like many of your favorite brands suddenly became overtly political in a way they never had before, and uniformly against President Donald Trump and the Republican Party? For example, in January 2017, Starbucks posted on Twitter, “We are committed to hiring 10,000 refugees over the next five years in the […]
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began distributing food in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, May 27. The sites, at Rafah, at the strip’s southern end, and at the nearby Morag Corridor, a security corridor established in April by the Israeli military, are managed by private American contractors, with Israeli soldiers securing the perimeters. Inside, Palestinian contractors […]
Defying the laws of political gravity, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wrangled a razor-thin Republican majority to pass the president’s “one big, beautiful bill” by a single-vote margin. The 215-214 score included most House Republicans, ranging from the SALT RINOs, or Republicans in name only, representing blue state districts to Freedom Caucus fiscal hawks. The […]
Family policy is in the news these days, as both Republicans and Democrats have become increasingly keen on spending money and tweaking policies for the benefit of parents and children. While Republicans talk about getting couples to have more babies, and Democrats talk about getting women into the office full time, a more immediate concern […]
When I served with the U.S. Army as a combat engineer in the remote city of Farah, Afghanistan, from 2004 to 2005, my fellow soldiers and I kept one final emergency bullet in our pockets in case we were about to be captured by the Taliban. There are worse things than death. Luckily, I survived […]
Making the rounds in April was a higher-ed post for our time: “The honest B or C student, submitting essays filled with awkward constructions, malapropisms, [and] earnest, if failed or surface-y arguments, [is] a surprise hero of the present age.” So wrote professor Matt Dinan of Canada’s St. Thomas University, a liberal arts institution in […]
No one will ever confuse Chicago with a well-run city. Perhaps things would be better if voters stopped voting for racists to be mayor. Mayor Brandon Johnson added yet another bizarre racial comment to his racial history. He said black people should be in charge because “we are the most generous people on the planet.” […]
The blockbuster first season of HBO Max’s adaptation of The Last of Us features a high-stakes post-apocalyptic story arc that centers on the possibility of quite literally saving humanity. The unstoppable spread of a malevolent fungal strain called cordyceps has ravaged the global population and turned ordinary human beings into zombies who survive only by […]
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was one of America’s finest writers, essayists, and humorists. His literary masterpieces, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, are timeless classics. They’ve engaged legions of readers and sparked the imagination of countless young minds. […]
“Nobody,” Tisha Johnson declared, in a careworn voice betraying three consecutive days of jet-lagged speech-giving, “wants a bunch of tech in their car.” Not exactly what you’d expect to hear from a senior executive of any Amazon-backed firm, let alone one devoted solely to the production of a controversial new electric vehicle, but the audience […]
John Cena walked into WrestleMania 41 in Las Vegas with the polite shuffle of a man reporting for overtime. He walked out with the belt, the boos, and a line in the record book no future star will touch: 17 recognized world championships, all in World Wrestling Entertainment, one more than Ric Flair ever claimed […]
Just as federal courts blocked former President Joe Biden’s abuse of the Clean Air Act to shut down coal power plants, and just as they blocked Biden’s attempt to erase hundreds of billions of dollars in college debt using the 2003 Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act, so now the Court of International Trade […]
Sue Prideaux’s latest biography paints a vivid portrait of Paul Gauguin, the towering artist whose bright colors, flat planes, symbolism, and naked, dark-skinned Polynesian women paved the way for modernist art. She covers Gauguin’s life from his infancy and childhood in Peru to his adolescence in France and later as a Merchant Marine to his […]
