It is now more than two days since polls closed in Arizona and California, yet neither state is anywhere near close to completing its vote counts. Whereas Florida had 95% of its vote count completed and reported within two hours of polls closing, Arizona has not yet reached the 75% mark and California is barely […]
Few events in U.S. history are as romanticized as the Civil War. Many of its figures seem to be cast from marble, immune from the “picklocks of biographers,” as the poet Stephen Vincent Benet famously said of Robert E. Lee. Perhaps none have been more mythologized than Abraham Lincoln. But as Nigel Hamilton shows in […]
The following is a more-or-less verbatim transcript of a conversation I overheard between two people in line to vote. I record it here for future historians who may want to know how, exactly, Americans governed themselves in the first quarter of the 21st century. For the record: I do not endorse, celebrate, or agree with […]
President Biden stretched the law with his "parole" program to give special breaks to illegal immigrants married to U.S. citizens, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
San Francisco's first Black female mayor, London Breed, conceded the race for mayor to Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie on Thursday, pledging a smooth transition as he takes over the job.
The seventh season of the reality show Love Is Blind promised to deliver a Washington, D.C., experience. In a sense, it did. In typical fashion for the sprawling D.C. metro area, cast members claiming to fall under the shadow of the Capitol hail from cities as distant as Fredericksburg, Virginia, and Baltimore, Maryland. Among participants, […]
“Follow the science!” From MSNBC to Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Biden White House, people were chastised with this thought-terminating cliche for years throughout the coronavirus pandemic. But there’s one area where establishment Democrats and liberal media outlets are suddenly not so interested in “following the science”: the evolving debate over the medical transition of […]
R.E.M. grew out of the vibrant music scene of Athens, Georgia, in 1980. Lead singer Michael Stipe, a recent transplant from the St. Louis suburbs, was taking art classes at the University of Georgia and singing in a kitschy cover band when he met record store clerk and guitarist Peter Buck. Sharing an interest in […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that there is still "a clear pathway” for a Democratic majority in the lower chamber as votes continue to be counted nationwide. “We still have a clear pathway to taking back the majority,” Jeffries said on Spectrum 1 News to the outlet’s Errol Louis. “Of course that...