A federal judge ordered Trump administration officials to comply with his order to lift a freeze on nearly all foreign aid and temporarily restore it to programs worldwide.
The critic, raconteur, and religious iconoclast Christopher Hitchens once parried claims about the alleged meaninglessness of nonreligious life by writing: “A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called ‘meaningless’ except if […]
The fancy term for “garage sale” is “estate sale,” and to be honest I’m not a fan of either. Rummaging around through someone else’s pile of discards looking for a bargain or an undiscovered treasure is not my idea of a fun Saturday. But while I am not a person who likes to go to […]
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is upset with how the city handled its wildfires, and she wants to speak to whoever is in charge of running it. Bass told Fox LA that she was not made aware of the warnings about the wind and the risks of fires, that she doesn’t know why no one […]
Must every screen endeavor be an eight-episode limited series? The question has become a cliché, but let the record nevertheless show that Apple‘s newest production would have been a perfectly forgettable Tuesday afternoon matinée not so long ago. Or, better still, a CBS special for the home-on-Saturday-night crowd. Instead, Prime Target limps along for the […]
President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency may be hogging all the headlines, but it is the steps Trump has taken to restore the Constitution’s original understanding of the separation of powers that will etch his administration in history books for generations. This week, Trump signed a new executive order titled “Ensuring Accountability for All […]
President Trump said Thursday that he personally plans to travel to the Fort Knox military base in Kentucky to find out whether all of the nation's gold reserves are still there.
I believe that Mark Zuckerberg‘s enthusiasm for MMA is genuine, that his new style is entirely artificial, and that he’s more religious than he puts out in public. However, I’m basing this on my interpretation of a PR-consultant-crafted image. You can’t know billionaires. We can judge their companies, influence, money, and the myths that orbit […]
Rod Blagojevich, a corrupt former governor of Illinois, calls himself a “Trumpocrat.” The label is truly apt because nobody has better articulated the heart of Trumpism than Blago, who famously said, “I’ve got this thing, and it’s f***ing golden. And I’m just not giving it up for f***in’ nothing. I’m not going to do it.” […]