In 1989, the same year Seinfeld premiered, no comedian had ever headlined at Madison Square Garden. Since then, nearly 20 comedians have done so. Comedy is changing, and its icons have permeated culture in a way that it would take several comedy books to chronicle, if anyone wanted a Comedy History Reference volume set. Nobody does, so instead, we now have Comedy Book, a light look from Vulture writer Jesse David Fox at how comedy works and why its position in American cultural life is now, despite many claims to the contrary, higher than it has ever been.
If you believe the greatest danger our nation faces is that young people might believe in God, don’t worry. The Freedom From Religion Foundation has you covered.
The economy is growing. Unemployment is falling. Wages are finally beginning to rise faster than inflation. Yet most voters say they are unhappy with how President Joe Biden is handling the economy. More voters now believe they would be better off financially under former President Donald Trump.
Anyone who has watched an NFL game over the last several years should be aware of the league’s pandering to the Black Lives Matter movement and other social justice issues. It’s impossible to miss the left-wing propaganda in stadiums throughout the country. Messages such as “End Racism” or “It Takes All of Us” are painted in every end zone on the football field. These, and the NFL’s other social justice “initiatives,” are primarily the result of the league’s flag kneeling fiasco and fallout from the death of George Floyd in 2020.
Aggrieved atheists, annoyed agnostics and others troubled by a Nativity display, Hanukkah menorah or a poster celebrating Eid al-Fitr at a U.S. military base, might now have a harder time succeeding.
The four astronauts assigned to fly around the moon for the first time in 50 years met with President Joe Biden on Thursday at the White House, where he showed off an moon rock on display in the Oval Office that was collected in the Apollo era.
The Michigan Court of Appeals said Thursday it won't stop former President Donald Trump from appearing on the state's 2024 Republican primary ballot, turning aside challenges from critics who argue that his role in the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol disqualifies him.
The man charged with setting a small fire at the courthouse hosting Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial burned papers bearing complaints about criminal justice, prosecutors said Thursday.
The apology letters that Donald Trump-allied lawyers Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro were required to write as a condition of their plea deals in the Georgia election interference case are just one sentence long.