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 […]
In 1911 a nearly penniless widow who called herself Katharine Gibbs sold her jewelry, scraped a $1,000 loan together, and bought a ramshackle “business school” in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, that taught typing and shorthand to young women seeking office jobs, one of the few lines of decently paying work for them a century ago. […]
Daniel Clarke-Pounder, a 24-year-old progressive activist, was arrested in South Carolina this week for setting a lot of Tesla chargers on fire with Molotov cocktails. He scrawled “F*** Trump” and “Long live the Ukraine” on the pavement. The incident appeared to copy an arson weeks earlier in Loveland, Colorado, which saw 42-year-old Justin Grace Nelson, […]
Bernie Sanders and AOC headline a rally in Tempe, Arizona as part of a three-day, five-city swing through Western states where they took aim at President Trump, Elon Musk and Democrats.