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Laura Loomer, the right-wing influencer and conspiracy theorist who describes herself as "pro-white nationalist" and who is so far out there that she herself could not make it through the vetting process for a job in either the Trump campaign or the Trump administration, has some new scalps to add to her collection. She is the self-appointed ...Read more

When Donald Trump pardoned the Jan. 6 gangsters upon returning to the White House, he proved that he is capable of any depraved act to protect himself. So while everybody should be outraged by the prospect of a presidential pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, nobody should be surprised. There is no dishonor too low for him.

The 63-year-old Maxwell ...Read more

In certain traditional societies, troublesome individuals who were perceived as threats to communal harmony were labeled as "witches." To restore calm, accused witches were sometimes reintegrated into society via a ceremony of ritual cleansing. Other problematic people, particularly those whose socially unacceptable behavior persisted, were ...Read more

Unless you're roasting marshmallows, it's hard to think of fire in the woods as a good thing. We all watched wildfire devastation play out earlier this year in Southern California, and many dealt with poor air quality as smoke drifted into the United States from fires burning in Canada. The National Interagency Fire Center reports that since Jan...Read more

"I'll have a small decaf black coffee, no sugar, and a croissant," I told the woman behind the counter.

I was in a nice place, a coffee shop and restaurant. In back of the place is a store that sells a lot of French groceries, and I go there to buy French caramels and cookies.

The 20-something woman behind the counter mumbled just a little, ...Read more

When Elon Musk and his first wife talked about how many children they would have, Justine reportedly said she wanted one or two. "But if I could afford nannies, I'd like to have four."

Musk reportedly replied: "That's the difference between you and me. I just assume that there will be nannies."

And that's also the difference between the tech...Read more

"No government -- regardless of which party is in power -- should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue," Harvard President Alan Garber said in April. He's right. That is not a principle that should be negotiable.

Reports have surfaced this week that ...Read more

Happy 64th birthday (Monday) to the 44th president, Barack Obama.

Effortlessly cool, the first Black president proved a soaring speaker up there with John F. Kennedy, and the bringer of the Affordable Care Act.

Also on the record: Obama never played hard against Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell and others. That flaw cost us dearly.

Everyone is...Read more

Some outrages are so outrageous that I don't even want to talk about them. But that's when we must speak out.

Indeed, let's rage against our government's wholly unprincipled embrace of (and direct participation in) the Israeli government's ongoing massacre of the Palestinian people.

-- Israel's ruthless, two-year invasion of Gaza has already...Read more

Early on in "Fiddler on the Roof," Yente the Matchmaker tries to sell a villager on Rachel, the shoemaker's daughter, as a suitable wife for his son. "Rachel?" the man responds incredulously. "But she can hardly see! She's almost blind!"

"Tell me the truth, Avram," Yente parries, unperturbed. "Is your son so much to look at? The way she sees, ...Read more

A dear millennial friend and I once had a fraught conversation. It came back to me upon reading that the demographic most receptive to socialist candidates and their far-left agenda was the urban "downwardly mobile elite."

My friend, the son of hard-working immigrants, possessed an Ivy League degree. He was miffed that a couple he knew ...Read more

The National Institutes of Health -- the world's largest public funder of biomedical research -- began an ideological purge of its grants in February. Without warning, hundreds of research projects were abruptly canceled.

The NIH targeted research that was purportedly connected to "gender identity" and "diversity, equity, and inclusion," or ...Read more

It's not just Trump being Trump. We -- and by "we" I mean both the public and the media -- have gotten so used to Trump repeating outrageous lies that we tend to dismiss them out of hand. But this is much, much worse. For Trump and his top officials to accuse former President Barack Obama of treason, much less to call for an investigation by ...Read more

In media, does satire generate profits? Or do profits permit satire? Causation is elusive. But there is a correlation between how much money a media organization generates and how much funny it publishes or puts on air.

When print newspapers were dominant and highly profitable, satire was a significant part of their content. Based at The ...Read more

I first met Elise Carter at a public meeting in spring 2021. Elise sat with her colleague and friend Trinity Walsh in the auditorium of Highlands High School in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, where I had graduated in 1993. The community assembled to talk about a social equity course Elise and Trinity were slated to teach as a high school elective. ...Read more

A guy I know, another writer, read one of my columns not long ago, and had a little advice.

"You shouldn't say how old you are," he said, giving me the worried/wisdom look.

"Why?" I asked.

"Because editors are gonna think you're writing a senior citizen column," he said. "Pretty soon, your stuff's going to be running next to the ad for the ...Read more