Until it closed last year, Monarch Novelties was the only souvenir store in Washington, D.C., that sold campaign memorabilia exclusive to the three presidential elections of the 1960s. The store was an oddity, a decaying building on 14th Street that, for more than 80 years, trafficked in eccentricities: not just Kennedy– and Nixon-era nostalgia but […]

Recently, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has argued that during the Biden years, Army basic training became too soft and lost some of its hardcore edge. He wants basic training to toughen up. Which brings us to a phenomenon in the Army I’ll call the Hardcore Paradox: Soldiers enjoy comfort and dislike pain, stress, and […]

Arundhati Roy dedicated her debut novel, The God of Small Things, to two people who, it was safe to assume, were her nearest and dearest: “For Mary Roy who grew me up,” she wrote, “Who loved me enough to let me go.” The other dedicatee was more cryptically designated: “For LKC, who, like me, survived.”  […]

“Nobody wants this!” Oscar Martinez of The Office insists to the documentary camera crew on the hunt for what became of the Dunder-Mifflin crew 12 years after the long-running program went off the air. “Don’t you guys have enough after nine years?” Evidently, no, Oscar. We need more. Much more. The Paper, which began streaming […]

Authorities have released footage of the suspected shooter in the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. In the video, shown during a Thursday night press conference, the suspected shooter runs across a roof, comes down the side of a building, makes his way through a parking lot and heads towards a busy street.  When coming...

Escorted across the tarmac by a military pallbearer detail and Vice President JD Vance, Charlie Kirk’s casket traveled aboard Air Force Two from Utah to Arizona.