Opinion

A joke is a very simple thing. It has only two moving parts: the setup and the punchline. And if you write jokes for a living, as I have done for 35 years, you learn that the basic rule of comedy is that if a joke isn’t working, there are only two ways to fix […]

Three curtains of lies surrounded former President Joe Biden for his entire term and kept the country in the dark about the important matter of whether the president’s health left him cognitively fit to discharge the duties of his office. Original Sin, the new, much-discussed book by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, draws back the […]

For nearly 30 years, Tom Cruise and his collaborators on the Mission: Impossible series have made a series of what are cosmetically spy movies that, at their core, have really tried to perfect the art of the heist movie. With the latest entry, The Final Reckoning, he and writer-director Christopher McQuarrie have certainly made the […]

What was the most demented moment of the Black Lives Matter summer of 2020? For me, it was when 1,200 public health officials declared that, although meeting other people was a health risk, especially if you were protesting the lockdowns, demonstrating in support of BLM was fine. Few dared speak out against this obvious madness. […]

The most promising moment for proponents of gay marriage in 2015 was not actually the Supreme Court‘s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which dubiously but definitively claimed that marriage equality was protected by the 14th Amendment. Rather, it was the moment Donald Trump, that thrice-married Manhattanite with a lengthy history of donating during the AIDS […]