Mayhem spoils KC Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration by Toriano Porter Who brings a gun to a victory parade, anyway? Someone did, and this mass shooting at the […]
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People power, not palace politics
by John Opdycke I’ve been an independent voter since I was 18. Back then, I knew less than zero about politics. I went to the University of […]
Denigrating media a political mainstay
by Llewellyn King In the 1990s, someone wrote in The Weekly Standard — it may well have been Matt Labash — that for conservatives to triumph, they […]
Pennsylvania Supreme Court takes aim at politics of cruelty
by Francis Wilkinson The Pennsylvania Supreme Court delivered a victory to abortion-rights advocates in directing a lower court to consider a challenge to the state’s 1982 prohibition […]
So much that goes unmeasured in the wonderful task of teaching
by Adam Patric Miller When I had to use four sick days in a row recently, I got a note from a doctor that cleared me to […]
The ‘cool aunties’ flout the growing restrictions imposed on women
by Carolina A. Miranda In the great taxonomy of aunts in popular culture, there are stern aunts, maternal aunts and cruel aunts (like malevolent Aunt Petunia in […]
American pessimism is on the rise. What can we do about it?
by Terrance J. Mintner “Americans are far too pessimistic about the future,” declared CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an op-ed published last month. Zakaria focused on economics, arguing […]
Should you sleep with your pet?
by Robin Abcarian Do you sleep with animals? No, I don’t mean people who, you know, do wild and crazy things in bed. I am talking about […]
Two key antiabortion studies retracted as junk science. Will SCOTUS care?
by Michael Hiltzik If the effort to ban medication abortion now before the Supreme Court demonstrates anything, it’s that the damage caused in our society by junk […]
My Ukrainian friend risked it all
by Rory Finnin I wonder whether my friend Maksym Butkevych knows the name of House Speaker Mike Johnson. Maksym is a defender of Ukraine and prisoner of […]