In happier days, fast-food used to come with fries. Now, it just comes with politics, no substitutions. Happy Meal toys conspire to turn your children transgender, Chick-fil-A waffle fries signal your allegiance to the Christonationalist movement, and the jury remains out on Taco Bell until we figure out what species comprises the chalupa. So, the […]
Many words were spoken at this month’s Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin, China, but one picture packed the proverbial power of 1,000 words, a photograph the Associated Press dubbed the “huddle.” The photo showed Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and erstwhile U.S. ally Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, smiling, laughing, hands clasped, […]
ALTURAS, California — Marin and Modoc are both California counties that start with “M,” but that’s about where their similarities end. Marin, on the Golden Gate Bridge’s northern side within sight of San Francisco‘s often fog-swept skyline, was President Donald Trump‘s worst electoral performance in 2024 in California’s 58 counties. Modoc, in California’s rural northeast […]
Senate Democrats are rolling out a new demand from Republicans as the parties clash ahead of an Oct. 1 government funding deadline: extend enhanced health insurance premium subsidies set to expire at year’s end. The Obamacare tax credits offer a far simpler messaging strategy on a subject that impacts millions of low- and middle-income Americans […]
President Donald Trump’s haters have spent a decade accusing him of being a fascist. Yet, his plan to unilaterally extract a 10% equity stake in moribund chipmaker Intel is now about as close to that notion as anything he has tried during his two White House terms. The White House has defended the unprecedented move, […]
I could fill a whole article with stories. The time a manager locked the front door at a sprint lest a tour bus swamp us a minute before closing. The time a young black co-worker startled everyone by refusing to “wait on [her] own kind.” The time I stole a sausage patty from a customer’s […]
Unless you are a major Sinophile or one of those wayward souls who monitor box office receipts like day traders monitor the Japanese futures market (ahem), you likely haven’t heard of the highest-grossing animated film of all time. Ne Zha 2, an animated partial retelling of the 16th-century Chinese folk novel Investiture of the Gods, […]
John Grisham’s The Rainmaker started life as a novel (1995), became a film by Francis Ford Coppola (1997), and is now a television series on USA and Peacock. Somewhere, creative teams are readying a rock opera and a Saturday morning cartoon. The new show is better described as an homage to the book and movie […]
NEW YORK, NY — Justice Amy Coney Barrett pushed back on partisan portrayals of the Supreme Court during a conversation in Manhattan on Thursday, saying it’s a “mistake” to view the justices as aligned with the political Left or Right. “Judges wear black robes because we are not partisan,” Barrett, one of three high court appointees of President […]
President Donald Trump denied reports that he is pressuring current New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Silwa to drop out of the city’s mayoral race in an effort to boost former Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s chances against Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani. “No, I don’t like to see a communist become mayor, I […]
