The MTA and the federal Transportation Department agreed to a timeline that’ll prevent Judge Lewis Liman from ruling on congestion-pricing before summer.
“To mess with our pronouns is to mess with our sense of the order of things, what’s up and what’s down — life itself,” the Columbia University linguist, prolific author, columnist, and podcaster John McWhorter emphasizes in his new book, Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words. “Pronouns are used so frequently, […]
In 1816, John Keats wrote in his poem “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” that when he encountered George Chapman’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey, it filled him with limitless excitement. As he put it, “Then felt I like some watcher of the skies/When a new planet swims into his ken.” It is, unfortunately, more likely […]
Trump has faced criticism for his volatile, art-of-the-deal approach to Ukrainian diplomacy, but there's a growing consensus that a messy peace is on the...
President Donald Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariff rollout Wednesday afternoon. The initial tariffs will go into effect on April 5. Trump’s policy will impose a baseline 10% tariff on foreign countries. Trump will also place additional reciprocal tariffs on “bad actors,” such as China. The stock market reacted negatively to the tariffs, which were […]
THE BIDEN DAM BREAKS. During much of the last administration, and especially in its final year, the president of the United States suffered serious cognitive impairment. It wasn’t a secret — 81-year-old Joe Biden frequently had senior moments during public events. What was striking about the situation was that Biden’s staff, fellow Democrats, and allies in […]
On Tuesday, the FBI apprehended Joel Vargas-Escobar, an illegal El Salvadoran immigrant and alleged MS-13 gangbanger, after four years as a wanted fugitive in...
