There is a reason the Senate is called the “cooling saucer.” It is rarely swift, and getting a Senate floor vote next week on what is still an outline of proposed changes to immigration law and funding for Ukraine before leaving Washington for the year would be a Mach 4 miracle. And 100 senators would...
Cornel West doesn’t want to hear the word spoiler.
The public intellectual turned independent presidential candidate was a (sort of) supporter of President Joe...
Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy has presented a budget plan that proposes paying residents a $3,400 oil-wealth dividend next year and using savings to cover a $990 million deficit.
My husband and I have been scoping out the housing market for the past three years, hoping for the right time (and price) to buy our first home. But like many young people, it seems we’ll be waiting a while yet.
You are familiar, perhaps, with those literary questions that are now ubiquitous on social media: Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre? Bret Easton Ellis or Jonathan Franzen? The Iliad or the Odyssey? My answers, until recently, were: Both, Jane Eyre (I am a bit of a contrarian), Ellis, and the Odyssey. After finishing Robin Lane Fox’s magisterial Homer and His Iliad, I have come to see the error of my ways. The answer to that last question must be the Iliad.
How do you know if someone you’ve just met went to Harvard? They’ll tell you in the first two minutes. I plagiarized that joke from the English original about the false modesty of people who went to Oxford. Plagiarism is allowed at Harvard. Its president, Claudine Gay, is a serial plagiarist, but she still has her job. Like laws in the real world, academic rules are for the little people.
Jewish day schools in the U.S. are dealing with an influx of Israeli students who have left their country amid the war with Hamas while also caring for American children who feel close to the conflict. Some of the schools are offering Israelis free tuition and help navigating their trauma and language barriers. Many...