Thirty years ago this month, I sat in a suburban movie house and watched America’s sweetheart stumble backward into love. No, the picture wasn’t Pretty Woman, Sleepless in Seattle, or You’ve Got Mail, though those 1990s classics deserve columns of their own. Rather, it was a film that nearly fell apart before it could be […]
“An autobiography is not our private story, but rather the baggage we carry with us,” Pope Francis said in his recollections, which were published this year. As the head of the Catholic Church for a dozen years, Francis was known for carrying his own bags, settling his own bills, and making his own phone calls. […]
Some historical fiction is uncontroversial because it presents the past merely as a backdrop for a story that does not suggest new facts or challenge widely accepted interpretations. Other successful creations go the other way, dispensing with the truth so brazenly that they render caveats fatuous because their narratives aren’t so much revisionist history as […]
America has fewer grand homes-turned-museums than Europe, for the perfectly simple reason that there have been Americans living grandly for so much less time. New York City has an unusually small number, and most of these bear no resemblance to their original uses. The Frick Collection is different. The museum, overlooking Central Park on Manhattan’s […]
A bipartisan group of more than a hundred lawmakers are calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to fully restore funding for the Office on Violence Against Women, warning of “devastating consequences” for victims. The letter noted that OVW has “withdrawn notices of funding opportunities” for 2025 and instructed grant seekers to not “finalize any applications.” […]
President Donald Trump pardoned former Las Vegas City Council member and gubernatorial candidate Michele Fiore after she was convicted in a charity fraud scheme. Fiore, nicknamed “Lady Trump,” was convicted in October for using $70,000 she raised to build a memorial for two fallen police officers on personal expenses. The 54-year-old was charged with one […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suggested President Donald Trump caught Ukraine off guard with his peace plan including a provision recognizing Crimea as Russian territory. The move would end an 85-year old U.S. policy to not recognize annexed territory as belonging to the aggressor. Zelensky said the provision appeared after an “appropriate strategy” was proposed during […]
The Washington Examiner’s Joe Concha suggested the days of David Hogg serving as vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee are numbered, adding possible new ventures could include being the first male host of The View. Hogg was elected earlier this year to his DNC leadership role following 2024 election losses that saw President Donald […]
Arkansas is appealing the Trump administration’s decision to deny Federal Emergency Management Agency funding after the state was slammed by some of the worst tornadoes it has seen since 1997 last month. The state’s congressional delegation sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to reconsider, while Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR) has filed […]
CNN analyst Harry Enten sounded the alarm over the Democratic Party’s record-low polling figures. Enten showed figures indicating wide-ranging dissatisfaction with Democratic leaders from within the party during an episode of CNN News Central. He displayed a Gallup poll taken earlier this month showing Democratic trust in their party leaders to “do the right thing” […]
