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Jules Feiffer and I were born 94 years ago in the Bronx, two months apart. We both grew up to be terrible at sports, and we both started to draw characters from the comics when we were 8 or 9 years old. We both became...
Read MoreHow Working-Class White Voters Became the GOP’s Foundation
The escalating confrontation between the parties over the federal budget rests on a fundamental paradox: The Republican majority in the House of Representatives is now more likely than Democrats to represent districts filled...
Read MorePhiladelphia Officials Now ‘Confident’ Tap Water Is Safe To Drink After Chemical Leak
More than 8,100 gallons of a latex solution were released into a storm drain following an equipment failure at a manufacturing facility in Bristol.
Read MoreDeSantis Seeks to Expand “Don’t Say Gay” Rules for All K-12 Students
A year ago, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a sharply controversial bill restricting discussion of LGBTQ issues in public schools, claiming it would fight “indoctrination.”
Read MoreDonald Trump Is on the Wrong Side of the Religious Right
The sanctuary buzzed as Mike Pence climbed into the elevated pulpit, standing 15 feet above the pews, a Celtic cross over his left shoulder. The former vice president had spoken here, at Hillsdale College, the private Christian...
Read MoreThe Man Who Could Be Chicago’s Next Mayor Has Destroyed Public Schools Everywhere He’s Gone for 30 Years
“Wherever he goes, he leaves and there’s questions, and a mess, and promises didn’t pan out.”
Read MoreNetanyahu fires defence minister after he told him to stop judicial overhaul
Yoav Gallant was the first senior member of the ruling Likud party to speak out against Israeli PM’s planBenjamin Netanyahu has fired his defence minister, Click here to see original...
Read MoreClick Here If You Want to Be Sad
This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Sign up here to get it every week.Last week, I saw a new paper in the journal Nature Human...
Read MoreMarriage Isn’t Hard Work; It’s Serious Play
Marriage is work: I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard that saying. In my personal life, I heard it from youth pastors at Bible camp, from well-meaning aunts at bridal showers, even from the woman who threaded my...
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Trump Rally Crowd Eerily Quiet As He Acts Out Ron DeSantis Crying and Begging for His Help
GOP primary candidate Donald Trump held a campaign rally in Texas on Saturday and attacked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at length, as he has spent many weeks doing, but his own MAGA crowd was noticeably under-enthused by the...
Read MoreTrump Claims He’s Out of the Woods On Stormy Daniels Probe in Wild Boast to Reporters: ‘I Think They’ve Already Dropped the Case’
AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta Former President Donald Trump told reporters he may already be off the hook on the Manhattan DA’s probe into the Stormy Daniels hush money payouts. Speaking to reporters on board his plane following...
Read MoreFact-checking Trump on the Stormy Daniels case: The statute of limitations and the FEC’s role
As Donald Trump looks ahead to possible charges related to adult entertainment star Stormy Daniels, he has preemptively been making the case for why he is innocent. We took a closer look at two of these defenses.
Read MoreCongressional oversight of the Trump International Hotel, civil rights “testers,” and the death penalty
ShareThe Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. The Supreme Court disposed of last week’s one new relist,...
Read MoreJustices debate propriety of litigation in trial courts while defendants are on appeal seeking arbitration
ShareIf anything is clear after Tuesday’s argument in Coinbase v. Bielski, it is that the justices are not going to agree on the answer. The case asks what a trial court should do if it denies a defendant’s motion for...
Read MoreThe wide world of woke | Sheneman
Published by NJ.com What is woke? Do you have any idea, because the folks who use it to describe everything from gender inclusive books to AP African American studies classes can’t quite seem to define it. The past few weeks...
Read MoreThe planet is warming fast, but we can still act on climate
By Daniel T Cross Sustainabilty Times Climate change is happening faster with its impacts becoming progressively worse, but it isn’t too late to act to ward off climate catastrophe, say scientists from the Australian National...
Read MoreShould the US ban TikTok? Can it? A cybersecurity expert explains the risks the app poses and the challenges to blocking it
Is a wildly popular social media app a threat to the U.S.? AP Photo/Michael Dwyer Doug Jacobson, Iowa State University TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is scheduled to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 23,...
Read MoreWATCH: Zebra recaptured in South Korea after escaping zoo
A zebra took itself on a walking tour through the streets of Seoul, South Korea — until rescue workers returned it to the zoo it escaped from.
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Afghanistan Marine veteran, 38, shot dead by two Uber passengers
Aaron Orozco, 38, served three tours of duty with the Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan. He left behind a wife and two young children, who Click here to see original...
Read MoreRobin Williams’ co-star Sam Neill reveals the late actor was ‘the saddest person I ever met’
Sam Neill appeared alongside Robin Williams in the 1999 film Bicentennial Man. Neill said Williams had a magnetic personality that he could turn it off Click here to see original...
Read MorePhiladelphia residents advised to drink bottled water Sunday afternoon following chemical spill, officials say
Philadelphia residents on Sunday were advised to drink bottled water after chemicals were released into the Delaware River in a neighboring county. The Philadelphia Water Department said Sunday it was responding to a spill of a...
Read MoreState Legislation Could Strip Catholic Churches’ Right To Protect Members ‘Sealed Confessions’
‘Seal of confession’ Click here to see original...
Read MoreExclusive – Rep. Jim Banks: Biden Pentagon Focusing on DEI Instead of Protecting America
Banks harshly criticized the Biden Pentagon for focusing on DEI, instead of focusing on making it more lethal. Click here to see original...
Read MoreAs COVID hysteria fades, climate hysteria rises
The U.N. has issued yet another global warming report that essentially says we’re doomed unless we revert to mud huts, subsistence farming, veganism and rickshaws. Click here to see original...
Read MoreYou’re not Webster: Our disrespect for what words mean
The loss of objectivity and the consequent millions of different answers to the question of what the definition of “is, is” is the poster child of all that ails us. Click here to see original...
Read MoreSan Diego State muscles past Creighton, makes first Final Four
Darrion Trammell converted a go-ahead free throw after he was fouled on a floater with 1.2 seconds left, and San Diego State muscled its way into its first Final Four, grinding out a 57-56 victory over Creighton on Sunday in the...
Read MoreReagan’s foreign policy doctrine contrasted to Biden’s approach to global unrest
Let’s all look back to another time when the idea of “strategic deterrence” and “peace through strength” could be found in political conversations and news coverage. Those two Cold War-era phrases...
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