President Barack Obama got a big laugh a year ago, when he did his comedy shtick at the White House Correspondents Dinner for the final time. “If this material works wel...
Growing up isn’t what it used to be. There’s a yawning gap between the end of adolescence and the beginning of adulthood: a period when millions of 20-somethings and 30-...
You’ve seen the commercial. It airs in the nightly news half-hour, a time that seems to attract these shills for designer prescriptions that cure illnesses we didn’t eve...
In Gettysburg in October, candidate Donald Trump promised his first 100 days in office would produce “the kind of change that only arrives once in a lifetime.” That hasn...
“You know, I said we were going to build a wall and Mexico was gonna pay for it. But it turns out, the bad hombres heard about Trump, and they stopped coming. They gave ...
The French are too intellectually vain to borrow others’ political ideas, but too interested in style not to appropriate that of others. So, on May 7 they might confer t...
Soon after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, attendance at Priscilla’s beauty salon in Des Moines began to fall.
“Quite a bit,” said owner Eva Ortiz, who offers h...
This just in: the Keystone Exams are a failed experiment that have cost Pennsylvania taxpayers more than $70 million and nearly a decade’s worth of fruitless development...
Science joined the #resistance over the weekend, or so the organizers of the March for Science would have us believe.
Thousands of demonstrators marched in Washington, D...
As Donald Trump approaches the 100-day marker of his first year in office, he has defined himself not as the Dealmaker in Chief but as The Backdown President.
What a del...
