Come January 2025, Democrats will not control a single branch of the federal government, as Republicans take the White House and Senate while retaining a slender House majority. The real action in Washington will largely be on the right side of the aisle. But in a polarized country, an out-of-power party’s time in the political […]
One of the more likable qualities of the clunkily titled Cher: The Memoir, Part One is that its author appears to have taken great delight in writing it. Cher guides the reader through the first half of her inimitable life and career with chutzpah. She begins with her impoverished and often miserable childhood in California, […]
Is Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) a philosophical analysis of language, a political allegory of liberal overreach, or a Menippean satire that, by following curiosity over the edge of logic, exposes legal order as a word game, proving nothing but its own emptiness? You know from the question that the answer is “All of the […]
As I’m typing this, to my left is a very long shelf that mostly contains novels by Barbara Pym, Muriel Spark, Beryl Bainbridge, Brian Moore, and Marly Youmans. A shelf above has a run of novels by Thomas Pynchon next to a number by Thomas Bernhard. Another shelf features Peter Handke. A photo of Herta […]
The 2024 elections seem to be, at least for now, proof that Americans have rejected woke liberal messaging. Evidently, our brothers and sisters across the pond missed that memo as they/them try to import those ideas with their … luxury cars? Jaguar, the luxury car brand of Jaguar Land Rover, has committed to a bizarre […]
Political betting markets do not end after an election, with several platforms already allowing betting on everything future elections to President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, the new chair of the Republican Governors Association, aims to build on the momentum of the 2024 elections and looks ahead to the next gubernatorial showdowns.
President-elect Trump joined his first podcast in 2022 with the Nelk Boys, ahead of joining dozens of podcasts and earning support through an initiative called Send the Vote.
Senators may still have some real substantive concerns about President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of Health and Human Services, but his decision to tap Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health is the right choice. A Stanford University professor of economic and health policy, […]
Here is a tale of two once-great cities. They lost their steel mills and auto plants. The factories went quiet. The populations dwindled. In spite of that, they never lost their football teams, which became sources of ragged pride amid snowy desolations. Now, these survivors stand at the edge of something spectacular. A Super Bowl […]