The most obnoxious PBS pledge drive occurred not amid a Peter, Paul, and Mary concert or a replay of the Ken Burns “Civil War” documentary. It took place 24/7/365 on Capitol Hill from sometime in the ...

This week, the Trump administration’s Food and Drug Administration pressed food manufacturers to speed up their phase-out of synthetic Red No. 3, while also announcing approval of a natural blue food ...

Britain’s House of Commons recently passed a bill legalizing assisted suicide for terminally ill adults expected to live less than six months. The vote was narrow (314 to 291) but the decision remains ...

On a list of California’s problems — homelessness, high crime rates, punitive taxes, poor infrastructure — the issue of online fantasy sports betting would probably rank around No. 172. That’s right ...

Dave Gergen died July 10, of this year, 2025, at age 84 in New England, of dementia. Your humble servant was a speechwriter on the White House speechwriting staff under his supervision from 1973 to ...

Who needs the U.S. Department of Education to stay just the way it is? Not Education Secretary Linda McMahon, who sees it as ...

Former President Barack Obama is receiving media criticism for the exhortations he shared with his floundering party at a fundraiser in New Jersey last Friday. The fundraiser, aimed at raising money ...

Color me cynical, but every day brings fresh reminders that the very people who most loudly proclaim their love for suffering humanity tend to have a not-so-well-hidden agenda. Scratch the surface, ...

I'm inspired — well, outraged, really — over a local story that popped here in Baton Rouge and is now going national: BATON ROUGE — A man claimed he was unfairly fired from his job after he refused to ...

New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh both lack an understanding of what it means to be… ...

A new game lets you romance your refrigerator. Not exactly a sentence you'd expect to write in 2025. Then again, maybe it is. Maybe this is exactly where we were always heading. Date ...

President Trump has done a 180-degree turn on Vladimir Putin. He has compounded this change in attitude by resuming the sending of weapons to Ukraine. Trump spent months repeatedly asking for a ...