President Donald Trump is moving more firmly into the camp of Washington’s defense hawks with a muscular foreign policy that cuts against the calls from his own base to retreat from the world stage. Trump has repeatedly worried congressional Republicans with his on-and-off commitment to Ukraine’s war against Russia and entered office taking a decidedly […]
While you were sleeping off your residual New Year’s hangovers the first wee Saturday hours of 2026, President Donald Trump started his military decapitation of Venezuela’s communist dictatorship. And while you were still sleeping, the president ended it, seizing and arresting accused criminal drug trafficker Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia in fewer than 2 […]
The Trump administration determined the best way to achieve its goals in Venezuela following the arrest of former dictator Nicolas Maduro was by backing his vice president, instead of the leaders of his opposition. U.S. forces carried out the dangerous operation last weekend to arrest Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, but opted not to […]
Micah Lasher attends Rodeph Shalom synagogue and says he understands threats to Jewish people. Jami Floyd says she learned to listen from her father-in-law, a Holocaust survivor. The mother of Alex Bores will tell you how happy she is that her son married a “nice Jewish girl.” Mathew Shurka volunteered to clean up in Israeli […]
Sherrod Brown isn’t the only former senator with the name abbreviation “S. Brown” seeking a comeback in the 2026 midterm elections. The Ohio Democrat is joined by, among others, former Sen. Scott Brown of New Hampshire, who was, briefly, an Obama-agenda-thwarting Republican hero a dozen years ago. The Browns, along with former Sen. John E. […]
President Donald Trump last fall acknowledged that the Constitution bars him from running for a third term. But more recently, he’s seemed to open the door a bit, from posting an AI image with him holding a sign that read, “TRUMP 2028, YES!” to talking to Alan Dershowitz about the upcoming book by the Harvard Law […]
To put the death of Brigitte Bardot in the proper perspective, let us consider this fact: Bardot, the ravishing siren of French cinema who caught the attention of the world with the 1956 movie . . . And God Created Woman, was a mere eight years younger than Marilyn Monroe, her closest analogue in American […]
President Donald Trump announced the United States will soon engage in military operations on land to hold drug cartels accountable. Trump spoke of plans to expand operations on land to implement a crackdown on cartels and the damage they cause in the U.S. during an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Thursday. He first […]
David Bowie personally appears on the cover of 24 of his solo albums, depicting himself as a bowl-cut heartthrob, an androgynous blond, a space alien in human disguise, a cigarette-smoking lounge creature, a sideways pair of legs, and an oddly undersized boxer. On the front of his 25th album, released two days before his death […]
The year is young, but you are not likely to encounter in 2026 at the cinema two people who love life more than Mike Sardina and Claire Stingl in the wonderfully entertaining new movie Song Sung Blue. Mike, played by a rangy, companionable Hugh Jackman, is a striving singer in Milwaukee who has battled the […]
