The Trump administration's Health and Human Services Department is expanding its Title IX probe into transgender sports participation in Maine to include the state's primary governing body for high school athletics and a high school that has been at the center of controversy after a biological male competing for the school won a women's statewide track and field meet.
Colorado District Attorney George Brauchler said that those denying the issue of Venezuelan gangs in the state were engaged in an “ignorance-is-bliss approach to the law."
Suppose you were Vladimir Putin, emperor and autocrat of all the Russias. And suppose you somehow controlled the president of the United States. What would you make him do? Withdrawing America’s support from Ukraine, switching off intelligence-sharing, and canceling even the weapons that were already in transit — that would be just the start. Ideally, […]
The Academy Awards is when Hollywood’s elite make themselves feel good about their corrupt industry and their progressive politics. It makes it all the funnier that these celebrities are running in the face of Native Americans that they stole their land. Land acknowledgments are the weirdest and most insulting form of virtue signaling among left-wing […]
I’m departing from the norms of this column by starting with a brief discussion of a 19th-century painter. But I promise that Guillaume-Adolphe Bouguereau is relevant to today’s Washington politics. In the third quarter of the 19th century, Bouguereau’s painstakingly realistic classical works were all the rage. He was a lion of the French Academy, […]
In his first months in office, President Donald Trump has begun to defang the diversity, equity, and inclusion industry. You know, the harmful grift that discriminates against people who happen to be white on the pretext of remedying the effects of past discrimination against people who mostly died generations ago. Under former President Joe Biden, […]
The second Trump administration is engaged in the first real transfer of power since 1933. What is taking place is an attempt at national transformation, and that is never quiet. “Buckle up, there’s more to come,” I tell friends — not only here but especially those overseas — who express anxiety with what they see […]
At a recent screening at the AFI theatre just outside Washington, D.C., the crowd reaction to the documentary Housewife of the Year was telling. The Irish film by Ciaran Cassidy unearths footage of Housewife of the Year, a hugely popular show on Irish television from 1969 to 1995. Housewife of the Year was a competition to see which […]