Biden vs. McConnell: A Tale of Two Declines, Part One
Joe Biden’s presidential reelection hopes went up in smoke after Americans watched his confused and incoherent performance during the first presidential debate…
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Sophie Cunningham May Not Be Interested in Politics, But…
Anyone who knows anything about college sports rivalries—or better yet, about pre-Civil War American history—will know how hard what I’m about to do and write…
Movie Review: Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’
Yet however much we may like The stoic manner in which The classical authors wrote Only the young and the rich Have the nerve or the figure to strike The…
Movie Review: ‘Pressure’
Courage, said Ernest Hemingway, is “grace under pressure”—which is also a good description of the quality that people once most valued in a leader.
Odysseus Visits the Smithsonian
It seems that everyone is talking about two things these days: The Odyssey (or, to be more strictly accurate, The Odyssey as reimagined by Christopher Nolan)…
Meet Britain’s New Cabinet of Fakers, Fraudsters and Hangers-On
Britons are struggling to characterize their new Cabinet, following the arrival of a new prime minister on Monday. The Cabinet is not as northern or female as…
Los Angeles’ School District Went From Morally to Financially Bankrupt
Los Angeles Unified School District is having a hard time paying the bills necessary to teach the kids, so it’s struggling to keep its doors open. Clearly…
‘Meet the New Boss, Worse Than the Old Boss’: Welcome to Ortega-Murillo’s Nicaragua
It never fails to end this way. Masquerading as left-wing populist socialists, they deny they are communists as they demand economic equality.
Attorney For Shiloh Hendrix Explodes After Disorderly Conduct Verdict in N-Word Trial: ‘This is F-cking Bullshit!’
Late Thursday night, a jury in Rochester, Minnesota reached a split decision in the trial of a mother who called an eight-year-old Somalian boy the N-word after…
Justice Department Moves to Revoke U.S. Citizenship From 10 Criminal Migrants
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have filed civil denaturalization lawsuits to revoke the U.S.