The Senate passed legislation Thursday authorizing the Federal Aviation Administration for the next five years over the objections of Virginia and Maryland Democrats who sought to block a provision adding ten additional flights into or out of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
When a writer for Ebony magazine referred to Kamala Harris’s “historical” visit to Ghana and CNN aired a report on the same “historical” trip, they didn’t mean the visit had happened in the past. They meant it was the first by an African American vice president — historic. To err is human, of course, though […]
If you ever find yourself between two married people who are in the middle of an argument, the best strategy is to become suddenly interested in your shoes. Married people, of course, know this instinctively. But unmarried people like me have a hard time remembering it. We often imagine that the two married people who […]
According to Gallup, Generation Z is the gayest generation ever. While just 2% of baby boomers currently identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, and just 7.6% of all adults do the same, an eye-popping 22.3% of Gen Z claim an LGBT identity. The next highest number is millennials at just 9.8%. What is going […]
“Politics,” they say, “ain’t beanbag.” In other words, it’s not just a game. Today, many descriptions of American political life begin with the observation that there is a great deal of disagreement when it comes to our political beliefs. And this disagreement is characterized as being increasingly rancorous, polarized, and ubiquitous. Family get-togethers turn sour […]
Amid all the campus rebellions across the country, during which students are expressing anger and hate, a hard-rocking New Orleans musician at the city’s annual Jazz and Heritage Festival this month yelled out a better idea. The musician is Fred LeBlanc of the band Cowboy Mouth, which plays a unique fusion of different genres of […]
If this were a normal war, Israel would be on the cusp of victory. On the Israel Defense Forces’s figures, some 14,000 Hamas militants have been killed, at a cost of 614 Israeli soldiers. Israel has operational supremacy by land, sea, and air. Hamas’s tunnel network has been degraded, its rockets spent or captured. But, […]
Is Tom Wolfe, the pioneering journalist and popular novelist who died six years ago this month, still getting the attention he deserves? In recent months, the signs have been mixed. Last fall saw the release of a decent documentary about him, but it received only mild praise and wasn’t long for the box office. This past March, […]
In an old Middle Eastern tale, a servant is jostled by Death in the marketplace in Baghdad. The servant borrows his master’s horse and flees to Samarra, about 80 miles away, “so Death will not find me.” The master goes to the marketplace and asks Death why she threatened his servant. Death says that she […]
Republican National Committee (RNC) Co-chair Lara Trump said that it is “pretty obvious” that her father-in-law, former President Trump, accepts presidential election results. Trump made the comment when she was asked if recent remarks by former and current leaders of the Democratic Party, like former President Obama and President Biden that Trump, will not accept...