Ahead of President-elect Trump beginning his second White House term, here's a breakdown and timeline of his legal cases in the years after first serving as president.
Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York has said that demonizing “voters of color as white supremacists" will push them further toward President-elect Trump.
A federal judge on Thursday struck down a Biden administration policy that aimed to ease a path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens.
President-elect Donald Trump reportedly wants to fire thousands of federal workers. He has also suggested a cost-cutting commission led by Tesla founder Elon Musk, which presumably would include firing government employees. There are a few they should start with to combat the weaponization of the federal government, most prominently by the Department of Justice. Attorney […]
There’s a funny moment near the end of The Wizard of Oz when the Wizard grants tokens to each of Dorothy’s companions to acknowledge all they had attained in the course of their journey. To the Scarecrow, who, you may recall, only wanted a brain, the Wizard bestows a degree. “Why, anybody can have a […]
Israel is currently embarked on the most successful counterterrorist campaign in history. In a span of months, the Jewish state has taken out the leaders of both Hamas and Hezbollah, the two terrorist groups that most threaten Israel’s existence, as well as their successors. And in a daring operation, Israel turned Hezbollah’s communications systems against […]
In 2011’s Moneyball, Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane and his assistant, Peter Brand, use a sabermetric analysis method to evaluate underrated players to cobble together a competitive Major League Baseball team on a shoestring budget. The film somewhat faithfully captures the beginning of baseball’s analytics boom, during which numbers and formulas unseated much of […]
Often erroneously attributed to John Wayne, the quote “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid” actually comes from George V. Higgins’s 1970 novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle. The phrase is spoken by a gunrunner trying not to get killed during a deal, but its applications are truly universal. Let’s not be so […]
It is amazing what Americans can accomplish without involving the government. There are, of course, multiple highways that crisscross the Lone Star State, but if you want to bike, run, or ride across the state, you are out of luck … until now. Bike enthusiast Charlie Gandy, along with his friends at Bike Texas, a […]