In June 2021, Warner Horizon and ABC Entertainment parted ways with Chris Harrison, the longtime host of The Bachelor. Harrison’s exit, following a four-month, will-he-or-won’t-he intrigue, was directly traceable to the veteran TV personality’s failure to condemn sufficiently a contestant who had once attended an Antebellum-themed sorority party. Though Harrison asked merely that the offending young woman not be “thrown to the lions,” his remarks unfit him in an instant to continue as the show’s emcee. The takeaway? The Bachelor is decidedly not the kind of franchise one would expect to place a dead white guy in the lead.
Our country’s oldest dictionary, Merriam-Webster, added nearly 700 words to its lexicon last month, with words related to developing technology, the environment, and more. No category is as likely to be bewildering for readers over 25 as its contributions from culture (“online and offline”) and slang.
The Army-Navy game is one of the most prestigious rivalries in college football. And yet the U.S. Military Academy and the Naval Academy have been declared losers at the hands of the crisis at the southern border.
From the outset, the name Bidenomics lashed the president's name to economic mismanagement. It was used at first by President Joe Biden's critics to distinguish his particular brand of fiscal and monetary boneheadedness. But when the president (and no one else) was convinced by White House spin that the economy was in great shape, he wore Bidenomics as a badge of achievement. It was folly.
Former President Trump threw his support behind Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to be the next House Speaker late Thursday night, giving the conservative firebrand a boost in his effort to win the gavel. "He is a STRONG on Crime, Borders, our Military/Vets, & 2nd Amendment. Jim, his wife, Polly, & family are outstanding - He will be a...
Americans walking in the nation's capital weighed in on the state of democracy in the country after former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was removed from his position.
Resuming border construction will help, but without a shift in the administration’s catch-and-release policies, it’s all for show, simply speeding up the rate at...
A conservative House member who had promised to nominate former President Donald Trump to be the chamber's new speaker says that the ex-president will endorse Rep. Jim Jordan for the post.