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In this month’s Better Homes and Gardens, readers were treated to a lovely ...Read more

Elections have consequences, they say.

Late Monday night, Politico broke what could be the most consequential result of Donald Trump’s 2016 election, posting a leaked draft of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s would-be ...Read more

Like everything else in today’s era of total partisan absolutism, the news that billionaire tech magnate Elon Musk bought Twitter landed like a giant sledgehammer, cleaving the country in two. Depending on one’s politics, the sound made by the hostile takeover was either the death knell of truth and civility or the symphonic rhapsody of free...Read more

As a 20- and 30-something young woman living in Manhattan some years ago, the city felt like my playground. Virtually nowhere was off-limits, too unfriendly or unsafe to visit.

The Theater District for plays. The Lower East Side for live music. Harlem for soul food. The Bronx for Italian. Queens for Mets games. Brooklyn for beaches.

My friends...Read more

How do you solve a problem like Marjorie?

Even after Twitter banned Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal account for a fifth strike violation of spreading false COVID information in January, the Jewish space laser conspiracy theorist still, inexplicably, has control of her official Twitter account. And boy is she putting it to work....Read more

Hollywood can put together a great summer blockbuster, legal thriller and holiday rom-com, but they sure can’t seem to get the Oscars right. This year’s broadcast was an unmitigated disaster, and not just because of ...Read more

A man is known by the company he keeps. The origin of that well-worn line is a fable by Aesop called, fittingly, “The Ass and His Purchaser.”

As it goes, a man brings a new donkey home, and when he sees that it chooses to sidle up next to “the laziest and greediest beast in the stable,” the man tries to return the donkey, saying, “I ...Read more

He had the audience enraptured. The crowd of evangelicals at Sugar Hill Church in Georgia this weekend hung on his every word.

He spoke softly and with a smile, telling his personal story of finding the Lord and loving Jesus. He wove in parables and allegories that seemed both spontaneous and well-rehearsed. He seemed humble even as the pastor ...Read more

As heartbreaking and unimaginable images, videos and reports flood out of war-torn Ukraine, comparisons to World War II Europe are impossible to avoid.

Thousands of families sleeping underground in subway stations, cramming onto outbound trains, air-raid sirens the new normal, beautiful buildings that once lit up a cosmopolitan city now shelled...Read more

President Biden, a long-time presidential hopeful, has waited decades to give a State of the Union address, and by all accounts it went off without a hitch.

There were history-making moments, and many others that were jarring, disorienting and downright surreal.

Here we are, in 2022, in the midst of what might be a new cold war, with Vladimir ...Read more

The Conservative Political Action Conference, better known as CPAC, falls every year around my birthday. In fact, I turned many of my 20s and 30s while nerding out at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington at panels with people like Fred Barnes, Bill Kristol and Jonah Goldberg.

I went because it was, put very simply, a gathering of conservatives...Read more