4+ mon, 3+ day ago   (277+ words) ‘My party is angry Angelenos,’ says the former reality TV star. Are there enough of them for him to topple Mayor Karen Bass? At last week’s mayoral debate in Los Angeles, there were three competing visions of the city on…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (173+ words) A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism. New Yorkers boast about their city’s resilience, and with good reason: They’ve had plenty of comebacks. September 11, the financial crisis, and the nation’s most…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (201+ words) The super-rich are turning their backs on the philanthropic promise backed by Gates and Buffett. That’s good news, writes Tyler Cowen. Billionaires are walking away from the Giving Pledge. If you do not recall the details, the Giving Pledge was…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (359+ words) The Free Press The American strikes on Iran have opened both a new military front abroad and an old front at home. Mere hours after the bombs began to fall, leftist activists took to the streets with signs and chants…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (304+ words) politics @VanityFair et al., ex-NY, -DC, -Moscow, “The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union” (Basic Books), OCD grammarian NASHVILLE — It had been five days since Miss California-turned-Catholic crusader Carrie Prejean Boller had been booted from the White House…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (144+ words) Maya Sulkin talks to Trump voters who prioritized border security but say they didn’t expect mass deportations to look like this. Nivriti Agaram is not someone you’d expect to be chanting anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) slogans. Agaram, 21, is the…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (253+ words) A $400,000 payout on a bet anticipating Maduro’s capture puts prediction markets under a spotlight. On January 3, U.S. troops landed in Venezuela’s capital and captured Nicolás Maduro in the middle of the night. The world was shocked when it saw the…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (132+ words) Reports say the Justice Department is investigating Tim Walz and Jacob Frey for obstructing ICE. The Constitution says they’re within their rights. The war over “sanctuary” policies may be reaching a climax. According to The Washington Post and CBS News,…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago   (260+ words) Timothée Chalamet’s Ping-Pong movie has been a huge hit online, but does it deserve the acclaim? Something strange happens every time indie behemoth A24 announces a new film. The news ripples out, and all the culture vultures come crawling. First, chronically…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (167+ words) If we don’t radically overhaul America’s entitlement regime, our entire nation will become a naturally occurring retirement community, writes Russ Greene for The Free Press. This piece was originally published in The American Mind. For half a decade, the right…...