VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Remember when presidential assassination attempts used to be rare and not something that happened once every quarter? What's even more disturbing than their current frequency is the desensitization that seems to have set in. The discrepancy between official and ...
The man just won't leave the stage. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell announced last week that he's going to remain on the Federal Reserve Board until 2028 even as he, by law, surrenders his chairmanship. The announcement came even after President Donald Trump agreed to drop his unwise lawsuit ...
Tucker Carlson's problem, it would seem, is that what he says doesn't matter, because he has a long history of not saying what he thinks. True, he once starred at Fox News, and even now his followers on social media number in the millions. But he's shifted into crackpot conspiracies and turning ...
I vividly remember when Michael Jackson's signature "Thriller" album exploded in 1983 with the release of Billboard No. 1 hits "Billie Jean" and "Beat It," as well as Top 10 singles like "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" and "Human Nature." These songs were the soundtrack of my eighth- and ...
In every school, work or personal gathering, you need at least one grump for the group to thrive. Grumps do the work that no one else will. When everyone else is being mercilessly upbeat, they swim against the tide and complain. The grump may follow your inane rules — but grudgingly, oh, boy, ...
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. cautiously praised the hard-won Voting Rights Act of 1965 as a "great step forward" toward removing obstacles that kept Black Americans from voting. It was. But this week, in striking down a voter redistricting map in Louisiana, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken ...