Back in the early 1990s, anxious about long-term regional decline and hoping to put my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, back on the map, local leaders embarked upon constructing a totally new light rail system that was to provide living proof of our dynamic vision for the future. The MetroLink promised to unite the diffuse […]
When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, some demonstrators held up signs that said, “IT’S NOT ABOUT THE CAKE.” Oddly enough, the activists are right. It wasn’t about the cake then, and it isn’t now in 2024. It is especially not for custom cake baker Jack Phillips, […]
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is seeking to lead the Republican Senate campaign arm ahead of the 2026 Senate elections. Scott ran for president in the 2024 Republican primary.
The 118th Congress is likely to have at least one final political standoff before the balance of power shifts, and it's over how to fund the federal government through September 2025.
Vice President Harris lost her election effort against President-elect Donald Trump after making a series of mistakes and missteps while on the campaign trail.
Media coverage of Kamala Harris was overwhelmingly positive throughout her 107-day campaign, but a different portrait of her emerged after Donald Trump was declared president-elect.
The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982; By Chris Nashawaty, Flatiron; 289 pp., $29.99 As we approach the dying days of a movie summer dominated by Deadpool & Wolverine, the premise of a new book by veteran film journalist Chris Nashawaty may sound like a bit of a tough sell. […]
It is now more than two days since polls closed in Arizona and California, yet neither state is anywhere near close to completing its vote counts. Whereas Florida had 95% of its vote count completed and reported within two hours of polls closing, Arizona has not yet reached the 75% mark and California is barely […]
Few events in U.S. history are as romanticized as the Civil War. Many of its figures seem to be cast from marble, immune from the “picklocks of biographers,” as the poet Stephen Vincent Benet famously said of Robert E. Lee. Perhaps none have been more mythologized than Abraham Lincoln. But as Nigel Hamilton shows in […]