“MADNESS!! AUDITIONS Folk & Roll Musicians-Singers for acting roles in new TV series. Running parts for 4 insane boys, age 17-21. Want spirited Ben Frank’s-types. Have courage to work. Must come down for interview.” Over 400 young men responded to the September 1965 ads in Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. Five months later, NBC […]

In December 1998, seeking college tuition assistance, I voluntarily enlisted in the Iowa Army National Guard. I did not have enough courage to do this, but growing up in the 1980s and ’90s, I had read about men who’d gone to jail for dodging military service. I held the erroneous assumption that once I signed […]

Please don’t interpret this as a cry for help, but: I like to eat alone sometimes. Not always, of course. No one enjoys a convivial dinner with friends and companions as much as I do, but every so often I like to sit at the bar of a local restaurant with a book or the […]

A deleted 2013 Father's Day post by Ilhan Omar referred to her father as "Nur Said," a name similar to her ex-husband's, raising new questions.

Eduardo Bolsonaro says Brazil would join Trump's Shield of the Americas anti-cartel coalition if brother Flávio Bolsonaro wins the Oct. 25 runoff.

Critics of socialism often confront New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and other advocates of socialist policies with socialism’s long record of failure wherever it has been tried. They might as well be talking to a wall. While the extent to which socialism’s dismal record matters to […]