Laws hiking taxes and adding regulations are set to take effect in states across the country in the New Year, from New York to California and the District of Columbia to Colorado.
House Speaker Mike Johnson stares down a difficult battle to retain the gavel on Friday, even despite an endorsement from President-elect Donald Trump.
The federal courts will not refer allegations that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas may have violated ethics laws to the Justice Department, the judiciary's policymaking body said Thursday.
The homeless population in the United States surged by 18% in 2024, the largest annual increase since the Department of Housing and Urban Development started collecting data in 2007. Worse, the number of homeless families increased by 39%, also a record. Although the HUD report released in December tries to hide it, President Joe Biden […]
Elon Musk could have retired after making his first fortune with PayPal. He had more than enough money for a lifetime and might have devoted his remaining years to spending it. Instead, he brought his energy and enterprise to Tesla, then SpaceX, then X, and is now throwing himself with the same intensity into politics. […]
“In a short time, man will be able to see what is happening anywhere in the world without leaving his own house,” the gypsy chief Melquiades prophesies to the settlers of Macondo on Page 2 of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Fast-forward 415 pages, and we learn that Melquiades’s chronicle of […]
Before al Qaeda and ISIS, before the age of attacks at crowded celebrations such as the Boston Marathon or the prelude to a Sugar Bowl, the “dangers” at a New Orleans New Year’s celebration were considerably more, well … entertaining. As one year passes to the next, the famous French Quarter is usually jammed in […]
Angela Merkel hired no fewer than eight English language translators to work on the German text of her new autobiography, Freedom, which is astonishing when one considers how little of substance she has to say. Upon assuming the chancellorship of Germany in 2005, Merkel made history not only as the first female leader of the […]
Right before Thanksgiving, social media’s latest viral star was born: a Cambridge academic named Ally Louks, who posted a photo of herself on X posing with her successful dissertation only to generate hundreds of thousands of comments mocking her work due to its title, “Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose.” […]
In typical American fashion, Halls of Fame have lost their glory in their translation across the Atlantic from the original shrines established in Europe. Seemingly every high school has one for its graduates, and every profession seems to have its own miniature pantheon. There are Halls of Fame for pornography, social workers in California, and […]