One word has dominated congressional politics as of late: reconciliation. Last week, the House and Senate budget committees passed their competing budget resolution frameworks. These frameworks serve one crucial purpose: to unlock the reconciliation process, which is perhaps the only chance to sign President Donald Trump’s full legislative agenda into law. For one of these […]
The Philadelphia Eagles are the NFL champions. They defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 in the Super Bowl on Feb. 9 in New Orleans, Louisiana. In doing so, they cemented themselves as the new America’s Team. It’s a moniker that has belonged to the Dallas Cowboys since 1978 after an NFL Films producer first referred […]
If you had any doubt about the “vibe shift” in 2025 Washington, look no further than the impact the Make America Healthy Again movement has had on pharmaceutical innovation and the corporations responsible for it. When the Biden administration explored manipulating decades-old legislation to seize pharmaceutical patents in December 2023, pioneering drug companies, free marketeers, […]
Elite Washington, D.C., parenting circles were rocked late last year, in the week before Thanksgiving. A head of school at one of the top preschools in Washington was arrested and charged with sex crimes against children. The married father of two, James S. Carroll, age 55, was charged with attempted coercion and enticement of a […]
The joint checking account is a system of oppression that needs dismantling — or something like that. All available evidence suggests that couples are not only less likely to wed, but they are also less likely to merge their finances as fully as in the recent past. If you have a bunch of married 30-something-year-olds […]
There is no such thing as an individual First Amendment right to access the White House, and the Associated Press found that out earlier this month after two of its reporters were barred from White House events by the Trump administration press team. The dispute with President Donald Trump revolves around his executive order renaming […]
The fancy term for “garage sale” is “estate sale,” and to be honest I’m not a fan of either. Rummaging around through someone else’s pile of discards looking for a bargain or an undiscovered treasure is not my idea of a fun Saturday. But while I am not a person who likes to go to […]
The critic, raconteur, and religious iconoclast Christopher Hitchens once parried claims about the alleged meaninglessness of nonreligious life by writing: “A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called ‘meaningless’ except if […]
Must every screen endeavor be an eight-episode limited series? The question has become a cliché, but let the record nevertheless show that Apple‘s newest production would have been a perfectly forgettable Tuesday afternoon matinée not so long ago. Or, better still, a CBS special for the home-on-Saturday-night crowd. Instead, Prime Target limps along for the […]
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is upset with how the city handled its wildfires, and she wants to speak to whoever is in charge of running it. Bass told Fox LA that she was not made aware of the warnings about the wind and the risks of fires, that she doesn’t know why no one […]
President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency may be hogging all the headlines, but it is the steps Trump has taken to restore the Constitution’s original understanding of the separation of powers that will etch his administration in history books for generations. This week, Trump signed a new executive order titled “Ensuring Accountability for All […]
Rod Blagojevich, a corrupt former governor of Illinois, calls himself a “Trumpocrat.” The label is truly apt because nobody has better articulated the heart of Trumpism than Blago, who famously said, “I’ve got this thing, and it’s f***ing golden. And I’m just not giving it up for f***in’ nothing. I’m not going to do it.” […]
I believe that Mark Zuckerberg‘s enthusiasm for MMA is genuine, that his new style is entirely artificial, and that he’s more religious than he puts out in public. However, I’m basing this on my interpretation of a PR-consultant-crafted image. You can’t know billionaires. We can judge their companies, influence, money, and the myths that orbit […]
When the English writer and humorist P.G. “Plum” Wodehouse died 50 years ago this month, most would be forgiven for believing that his death took place at some grand English country house, not unlike Blandings Castle, or some salubrious Mayfair gentleman’s flat of a kind that Bertie Wooster inhabited. It therefore comes as a surprise, […]
