Conservatives praised Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for his debate performance against California Gov. Gavin Newsom after the two went toe-to-toe in a Fox News debate on Thursday.
The unnamed 40-something narrator of Melissa Broder’s latest novel, Death Valley, is running away. A novelist, she leaves her dysfunctional life in Los Angeles and heads to the California desert, where she hides out at her favorite hotel, the Best Western. She’s attempting to escape the two men who grant her meaning but also send her into massive bouts of existential despair: her ailing father and her sickly husband.
Some middle school students are taught about Francis Scott Key, learning how he penned what would become the national anthem after watching the stars and stripes wave despite British bombardment during the War of 1812.
Five years ago, Netflix released the first season of its Drive to Survive series, elevating Formula One into the American consciousness and making TV stars out of characters like Haas team principal Guenther Steiner and journeyman driver Daniel Ricciardo. This has not always sat well with veteran stateside followers of the sport, such as your humble author. Why, we woke up at 3 a.m. to watch the races in Asia! We paid outrageous shipping, customs, and foreign transaction fees to wear Europe-only merch from recherche teams like Jordan and Minardi! We sat through the 2005 U.S. Grand Prix, where only six cars started the race, then unhesitatingly bought tickets for 2006, proving that P.T. Barnum was probably too much of a pessimist!
San Francisco’s downtown may be turning into a ghost town as businesses flee the crime and homelessness the "City by the Bay" has become synonymous with, but business is booming at the city’s private schools as no fewer than nine schools are undergoing expansions.
Nothing encapsulates the current state of “journalism” quite like attacking a child in order to attack a football team as racist and apparently getting your facts wrong in the process.
In the off chance you thought you were an OK person who did mostly moral things, there’s a whole new list of behaviors that you should feel bad about — beginning with the stuff you like to eat.
When he wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843, Charles Dickens invented the Christmas fairy tale, setting the pattern for stories intended to be popular and thus help people see the faith that guides them at their best. But just as the Santa mythology developed from its own times and places, fairy tales from St. Nick to Charlie Brown are also a form of criticism of their own times — and a plea: Christmas is constantly in danger in our times. The tale is meant to diagnose and treat a problem in our modern societies and lives. In the 21st century, in which the Christmas fairy tale is too easily confused for the Christmas special, we still need and still tell these tales. One offering that doesn’t seem worth taking all that seriously has emerged as the great modern text of the season: Elf, which had its 20th anniversary in November.
A backlash is growing against mandates forcing auto companies to make electric vehicles. Drivers now have enough experience to know that the vehicles are impractical, hideously expensive, and do not bring the environmental benefits claimed for them.