If you like underdogs, you will not like the NIL (short for name, image, and likeness) era of college athletics. Since expanding to a field of 64 in 1975, at least one school from a mid-major conference has made the NCAA Tournament’s second weekend of play, more commonly known as the Sweet 16, every year. […]
Nothing has gone to plan for the Democratic Party since the 2024 election votes were counted — except one thing. Lacking a governing vision and desperate for a new villain — the old one had proven unbeatable — Democrats found one in Elon Musk, and they’ve managed to bring him down a notch. Musk’s dual […]
The group chat that broke Washington has sparked a weeklong war of words between President Donald Trump’s top staff and Jeffrey Goldberg, the liberal editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. He reported in a March 24 blockbuster story that he had been erroneously added to a Signal group chat of top national security officials. Yet, neither side […]
Americans are wealthier than ever before by some measures, but there’s evidence that we’re all walking close to the edge, thanks to the post-COVID-19 Biden-Era inflation. While off its record highs, the stock market is still far higher than in the recent past. In late March, the S&P 500 was 20% higher than its late […]
When I gave birth to my first baby over a decade ago, I had many options for baby products to put her down in. Baby bouncers, baby pillows, baby rockers — all manner of vessels that could contain her little body so I could do things like go to the bathroom, cook dinner, or simply […]
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In November 2023, downtown San Francisco underwent a sudden transformation. Its streets were power washed, graffiti was erased, trash was cleared, and the city’s sizable homeless population was relocated. For a city grappling with a mass exodus fueled by these very problems, the cleanup revealed that it was never a matter of feasibility but rather […]
“We will know that we are free when the pornography no longer exists,” Andrea Dworkin concludes in her book Pornography: Men Possessing Women, originally released in 1981 and rereleased this year by Picador. It is easy to read the book nearly 45 years later as a well-meaning but quixotic and doomed quest. Even Dworkin seems […]