Texas’ largest Teamsters union, Local 988, endorsed Vice President Harris before her rally in Houston on Friday. In a letter first obtained by The Hill, the union, which is based in Houston, said it surveyed more than 8,000 members before endorsing her. It cited the Biden administration's protection of union pensions and Harris's pledge to...
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...
Not since Washington jailed former and future Mayor Marion Barry for crack cocaine possession has the capital city seen such a scandal. On Oct. 23, protesters and city politicians gathered outside a local business to decry a great injustice. One speaker branded the business full of “racists.” “I am upset, regardless of my previous employment, […]
Several years after being drummed out of polite progressive society because of his accurate political predictions, the statistician, pundit, and poker player Nate Silver is riding high. Silver’s hugely popular Substack and highly precise (and proprietary) election forecasting model have vaunted him to the pinnacle of public figurehood. And while his departure from mainstream media […]
The year is 1945 and a future world-famous actor is honing his craft in a tiny sixth-story apartment in the South Bronx, where he lives with his grandparents and single mother. He is reenacting a scene from The Lost Weekend, a movie he recently saw with his mom. It’s the scene where the main character, […]
In July of last year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office triggered panic when it warned that projected payments on interest on the national debt would outpace defense spending, as well as nondefense discretionary spending. And that interest payment would outpace Medicare spending by 2046. Just 14 months later, the cost of interest on our $35 […]
Part of the difficulty horror writing faces has to do with the defenses that modern readers bring to genre fiction. Like virtually every other genre, horror only came into its own as a discrete mode of fiction with the great literary branching that took place in the era of modern publishing. But we find elements […]