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Colleges, police blame ‘outside agitators’ for campus protests. Experts say it’s not so simple

As the dust settles and the number of pro-Palestinian student encampments dwindle, claims of “outside agitators” among the protesters are being put under the microscope as colleges say those unaffiliated with them caused most of the trouble, an accusation dismissed by critics as a fig leaf to ignore the demands of students. Some universities have...

RFK Jr.’s Texas ballot access push raises questions for Ted Cruz

The prospect of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. qualifying for the Texas ballot is fueling speculation that he could hurt Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) reelection chances. Kennedy announced earlier this week he gained more than enough signatures to compete in the Lone Star State, a major advancement for the independent candidate, who appears to be drawing...

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

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...

Showdown: The blue states Trump aims to turn red in November

Former President Trump heads to Minnesota on Friday, to headline a state GOP fundraiser, as he aims to flip the blue state red in November's election and expand the map in his 2024 rematch with Biden

Trump to attend son’s high school graduation Friday

Former President Trump is attending youngest son Barron Trump’s high school graduation in Florida on Friday, a break from his criminal trial in New York City.

Inside Donald Trump and Speaker Johnson’s mutually beneficial relationship

Speaker Mike Johnson and former President Trump have built up a close working relationship since the former took the helm of the House of Representatives in October.

Missouri AG opens probe into Kansas City’s ‘retaliatory’ post doxxing Chiefs’ Harrison Butker

Kansas City apologized after posting information about NFL kicker Harrison Butker's residence on X in an apparent attempt to retaliate against the Pro Bowl athlete. But the state isn't willing to let bygones be bygones.

Justice Alito’s home flew flag upside down after Trump’s ‘Stop the Steal’ claims, report says

An upside-down American flag, a symbol associated with former President Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud, was displayed outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in January 2021, The New York Times reported Thursday.

The multiverse strikes again: Review of Dark Matter on Apple TV+

Like most people, I sometimes wonder how life might have unfolded had I made, at critical junctures, a different choice. What I haven’t done is break into a parallel reality, identify a better version of myself, and force him at gunpoint to trade places. Laziness? The reader may suspect so. Then again, parting ways with […]

Love one another? That’s unpaid domestic labor

The medium, as they say, is the message. And the message of social media is that you don’t owe anyone anything, that connection is vulnerability, that life is a series of transactions, and that anyone who tells you differently is just trying to exploit you. “Here’s the thing: Small acts of kindess that are mostly […]

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