“Politics,” they say, “ain’t beanbag.” In other words, it’s not just a game. Today, many descriptions of American political life begin with the observation that there is a great deal of disagreement when it comes to our political beliefs. And this disagreement is characterized as being increasingly rancorous, polarized, and ubiquitous. Family get-togethers turn sour […]

Amid all the campus rebellions across the country, during which students are expressing anger and hate, a hard-rocking New Orleans musician at the city’s annual Jazz and Heritage Festival this month yelled out a better idea. The musician is Fred LeBlanc of the band Cowboy Mouth, which plays a unique fusion of different genres of […]

If this were a normal war, Israel would be on the cusp of victory. On the Israel Defense Forces’s figures, some 14,000 Hamas militants have been killed, at a cost of 614 Israeli soldiers. Israel has operational supremacy by land, sea, and air. Hamas’s tunnel network has been degraded, its rockets spent or captured. But, […]

Is Tom Wolfe, the pioneering journalist and popular novelist who died six years ago this month, still getting the attention he deserves? In recent months, the signs have been mixed. Last fall saw the release of a decent documentary about him, but it received only mild praise and wasn’t long for the box office. This past March, […]

In an old Middle Eastern tale, a servant is jostled by Death in the marketplace in Baghdad. The servant borrows his master’s horse and flees to Samarra, about 80 miles away, “so Death will not find me.” The master goes to the marketplace and asks Death why she threatened his servant. Death says that she […]

Republican National Committee (RNC) Co-chair Lara Trump said that it is “pretty obvious” that her father-in-law, former President Trump, accepts presidential election results. Trump made the comment when she was asked if recent remarks by former and current leaders of the Democratic Party, like former President Obama and President Biden that Trump, will not accept...

Adult film star Stormy Daniels Stormy Daniels trolled former President Trump and his legal team after testifying Thursday in the New York hush money trial. “Real men respond to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in court. Oh...wait. Nevermind,” Daniels said in a Thursday post on social media platform X. Daniels’ swipe...

House Armed Services Committee ranking member Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said President Biden and his administration have not been clear on their policy around sending weapons to Israel in relation to an invasion of the city of Rafah. “My main criticism of the administration… president right now is they just haven't been clear on what their...

Xavier University of Louisiana, an HBCU in New Orleans, became the second school to cancel the United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield's address amid the students’ Gaza protests. The institution reversed course on its choice of a commencement speaker after pressure from students and the community over Thomas-Greenfield's voting record at the UN. University President Reynold...

The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure is set to hold a hearing on the federal response to the recent collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, according to a Thursday press release from the committee. “Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure [Chair Sam Graves (R-Mo.)] announced that the full Committee will hold a...