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DNC launches Milwaukee billboards with Trump ‘horrible’ city comment

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is launching ten new billboards in the Milwaukee area spotlighting former President Trump’s alleged remarks calling Milwaukee a “horrible city,” according to the DNC. The Trump campaign quickly clarified the former president’s comment, saying Trump does not think Milwaukee itself is “horrible,” but that the crime in the city is, but...

FDIC’s toxic culture raises an opportunity to address its toxic governing schemes

The FDIC chairman's downfall should serve as an opportunity to address the broader issue of FDIC regulatory overreach that has stifled the banking industry and economic growth under President Biden.

Massachusetts bill banning ‘revenge porn’ lands on Gov. Healey’s desk

A bill aimed at outlawing “revenge porn" has been approved by lawmakers in the Massachusetts House and Senate and shipped to Democratic Gov. Maura Healey.

Trump says there ‘could be’ alien life forms, but it’s ‘not my thing’

Former President Trump told YouTuber Logan Paul that there "could be" alien life forms that have visited Earth, but that he is not a serious believer himself.

Religious ecstasy

Before we start, an apology. The next two paragraphs are going to sound a little sciencey: MDMA (chemistry class name: 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic drug that alters mood and perception by increasing the activity of neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine in the brain. It is often associated with recreational use at parties and raves […]

European vacation

Summer is here. It’s time for a break, especially from politics. Why waste time thinking about Hunter Biden’s convictions and President Joe Biden’s lack of them when we could, like Donald Trump, be enjoying our freedom while we can? Let’s take a vacation in Europe. They have politics there, too, but a change is as […]

Diplomacy in picaresque

In a geopolitical climate dominated by creeping great-power competition, calls for renewed diplomacy sound misguided. Efforts at peace in Gaza and Ukraine have hitherto fallen on deaf ears as the prospect of negotiations drifts further away amid a current of chaos. Is this the new normal? Is it possible to broker peace when the U.S. […]

A universal history of the Muslim world

One of the best jokes in Whit Stillman‘s 1994 comedy Barcelona could apply to much academic writing of the past half-century. Fred, a naval officer who is a new arrival in Europe, asks his expatriate cousin Ted about something he noticed in the books he has been reading while waiting for the fleet to arrive. […]

There is no such thing as a free lunch market

San Francisco is opening a market where people can take food and walk out without having to pay for it. This time, they are doing it on purpose. San Francisco has opened what is being called a “free food market.” It is essentially a food pantry where approved residents in the neighborhood who fill a […]

Cricket fever descends on the US: Will Americans catch it?

LONG ISLAND, N.Y. -- A smattering of Hindi and Urdu mixed with American-accented English could be heard over the blasts of Bollywood music this past Sunday at a stadium on Long Island, N.Y., offering a signal that cricket had arrived in the United States. Fans were packed in like sardines at Eisenhower Park in East...

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