A bill to reform the passport processing system has moved through a House committee with bipartisan and unanimous support, positioning it to move closer to the president's desk.
A controversial Chinese official who has praised the CCP and denied mistreatment of Uyghurs in China has met once again with leaders at a top U.S. university.
Those mourning the death of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Louise Glück last month may, or may not, take solace in that there is a new poetic act in town, in the form of the actress Megan Fox. Fox, who is engaged to the bellicosely named musician Machine Gun Kelly, announced the project on Instagram (naturally), saying, “These poems were written in an attempt to excise the illness that had taken root in me because of my silence. I’ve spent my entire life keeping the secrets of men, my body aches from carrying the weight of their sins.” Only the cynical might observe that Sylvia Plath offered a rather pithier summation of the same idea at the end of her poem "Daddy," when she concluded, “Daddy, Daddy, you bastard, I’m through.”
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.