It was all smiles among President Donald Trump, criminal justice reform advocates, law enforcement representatives, and a bipartisan group of legislators in the Oval Office in 2018. Trump, who campaigned on law and order, was preparing to sign the First Step Act, one of the biggest criminal justice reform legislative bills in U.S. history. “This […]
BELGRADE — The protests that shut down Serbia’s capital were fiery but mostly peaceful, in no small part due to a police force that understood the entire government’s fate rested on its restraint. “In the end, they destroyed 186 tractors, and the only big fight — they made it between themselves,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic […]
When Congress first created tax exemptions for nonprofit organizations in 1894, the goal was simple: Support charitable institutions serving the public good. Today, that well-intentioned policy has morphed into a sprawling system that shields roughly 15% of the U.S. economy, approximately $3.3 trillion in annual revenue, from taxation. As America grapples with mounting federal debt […]
Illegal immigrants are not Americans, they are foreign nationals who, in their first act in coming to this country, broke federal immigration law, and a majority of U.S. voters made it plain last fall that they expect lawmakers to do something about it. In 2024, the American electorate demanded every level and branch of government […]
Any show that uses the title card “Baldwin Residence: East Hampton” is rather begging to be hate-watched. And on that basis, The Baldwins on TLC, which peers into the life of Alec, his second wife, Hilaria Baldwin, and their seven children, is undeniably addictive and sometimes perversely successful — but, for a whole host of […]
Joe Rogan has the largest podcast audience in America. Sometimes, he casts his pod for two hours or even four. The longest Rogan podcast so far, a 5-hour, 19-minute banter marathon with actor and comedian Duncan Trussell, is longer than the 1962 movie The Longest Day, which reconstructed the D-Day landings in a mere three hours. […]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is facing a tricky path forward as President Trump and Elon Musk publicly — and persistently — push for the impeachment of the judge who directed flights carrying Venezuelan migrants to be turned around. Trump ignited a controversial campaign this week when he said U.S. District Judge James Boasberg — whom...
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...
From the Babylonian captivity to the Trail of Tears, the history of rulers forcibly removing or even annihilating subject peoples is a long and sordid one, but the scope and brutality of Nazism necessitated the creation of new terminology. “New conceptions require new terms” was the concise judgment of exiled lawyer Rafael Lemkin in Axis […]