I don’t want to pick on Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). On the contrary, I have a soft spot for the former college football player who, though he is my age, has the looks, energy, and enthusiasm of a 35-year-old. The only time I properly met him, I found him utterly charming. I cite the former presidential hopeful only because he articulates a view that has very suddenly become orthodox among Republicans, and a view that I think is profoundly mistaken.
Vindication for two IRS whistleblowers has come on two major fronts in the past week as the Justice Department, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and President Joe Biden all look substantially worse. Indeed, Garland looks so corrupt that he should lose his job.
The hypocrisy and moral imbecility of the three Ivy League presidents before Congress last week points to two deeper problems of university leadership today.
Donald Trump said Sunday that he will not take the stand Monday in his New York civil fraud trial, marking a reversal for the former president who had previously testified during the case.
The NBC sketch-comedy show was accused of stunning tone-deafness for a skit that mocked not the Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology presidents who stepped in it during last week's House hearing, but the Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik.
Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones issued another apology for his comments about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, as tech billionaire Elon Musk asked him about the controversy amid his reinstatement on Musk’s platform X (formerly Twitter). The Infowars host was pressed on the issue during an appearance on X Spaces livestream co-hosted by...
LeBron “Bronny” James Jr. made his collegiate debut with his team, the University of Southern California Trojans, Sunday, months after suffering a cardiac arrest episode during a summer workout session. The standout freshman, who came off the bench and was on minute restriction made by his head coach Andy Enfield, tallied four points (on 1-3...
The Biden administration's proposals aren’t likely to change the planet’s temperature by even one-tenth of a degree, but they might just destroy the 21st-century...