Family policy is in the news these days, as both Republicans and Democrats have become increasingly keen on spending money and tweaking policies for the benefit of parents and children. While Republicans talk about getting couples to have more babies, and Democrats talk about getting women into the office full time, a more immediate concern […]
No one will ever confuse Chicago with a well-run city. Perhaps things would be better if voters stopped voting for racists to be mayor. Mayor Brandon Johnson added yet another bizarre racial comment to his racial history. He said black people should be in charge because “we are the most generous people on the planet.” […]
Making the rounds in April was a higher-ed post for our time: “The honest B or C student, submitting essays filled with awkward constructions, malapropisms, [and] earnest, if failed or surface-y arguments, [is] a surprise hero of the present age.” So wrote professor Matt Dinan of Canada’s St. Thomas University, a liberal arts institution in […]
While Democrats search for a new party leader, one old name keeps coming up in conversation: Rahm Emanuel. The Democrat has been an investment banker, congressman, White House chief of staff, Chicago mayor, and U.S. ambassador to Japan, and now he's been thinking about adding another title to his long resume: president. There's just one...
Texas is set to become the largest state in the nation to mandate that every public school classroom display a copy of the Ten Commandments, with advocates fearing a further erosion of church and state and the legislation’s sponsor making clear that’s a separation she doesn’t believe in. While Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has not...
The Trump administration keeps shifting the battleground over international students' visas as it pulls more and more government levers to crack down on the group. What started with allegedly combatting campus antisemitism by going after pro-Palestinian activists has escalated into attempts to take away all of Harvard University’s foreign students, threats to cap international student...
Elon Musk is exiting the White House with little to show for his cost-cutting push and a list of frustrations from his time in the Trump administration. Musk entered politics with grand ambitions of slashing federal spending and chipping away at the $36 trillion in national debt. But after months of serving Trump as a loyal supporter...
Republican lawmakers are breathing a sigh of relief that the courts are putting the brakes on President Trump's trade war, which has pummeled markets, created economic uncertainty and taken a bite out of Trump’s own approval ratings. It’s unclear who will win the final legal battle, which could end up in the Supreme Court. But...
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...
The blockbuster first season of HBO Max’s adaptation of The Last of Us features a high-stakes post-apocalyptic story arc that centers on the possibility of quite literally saving humanity. The unstoppable spread of a malevolent fungal strain called cordyceps has ravaged the global population and turned ordinary human beings into zombies who survive only by […]