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Much has been written about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) since it was signed into law last summer, but one of its more interesting provisions has been somewhat overlooked: the expansion of charitable contribution benefits for all taxpayers, which allows all Americans to potentially lower their tax bills by giving to qualified organizations. This provision underscores how free-market ...
In my corner of the world, it feels like 2020 all over again, experiencing the push and pull between losing someone I love due to medical misinformation, all while holding respect for free speech. The tension between combating medical misinformation and protecting free speech represents one of the most challenging dilemmas of our age. On one side lies the very real danger of false health ...
There have been at least 75 school shootings in the United States in 2025. Some of the victims of the Dec. 13 shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, had even faced a shooter at school before.
For a president who is stingy with the Epstein files and refuses to release the video of the extrajudicial executions (probably) of a couple of shipwrecked Venezuelan mariners/criminals (maybe), Donald Trump has had a very transparent week. How much more do we need to know about a person than was revealed by Trump’s erroneous and tasteless Truth Social post suggesting that the murders of Rob ...
Every year around this time, the noise starts to drop. The pace eases a bit. Families gather, neighbors reconnect, and people who disagree on just about everything still manage to pass plates across the same table. Something about late November into December nudges us toward reflection. Whatever you call it — holiday spirit, cultural memory, or just a pause in the chaos — it’s real. And in a ...
Just a week ago, we saw how fast a viral video could virally whip around the world. It was taken during Australia’s Hanukkah-by-the-Sea family-fest that turned into a mass shooting tragedy. Yet it ended with that astonishing, made-for Hollywood heroic twist. It was quickly seen by just about all the planet’s most powerful deciders; and also, just about everyone you know. But we’re all so ...
The holidays have arrived once again. You know, that annual festival of goodwill, compulsory spending and the dawning realization that Santa and Satan are anagrams.
You are watching the 2016 Republican primary campaign, trying to figure out if Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio can stop Donald Trump from winning the Republican nomination. A man from the future steps out of a shimmering portal and informs you that the winner of the primary campaign will go on to be the Republican president who will finally bomb Iran’s nuclear program.
People are talking about America’s “K-shaped economy,” so named because charts show different sectors’ fortunes diverging like the two arms of that letter. Recently, for example, data services firm ADP reported 32,000 lost U.S. jobs in November — a sharp reversal from October’s 47,000 gain, but not unexpected. But within that data, smaller firms employing from 1 to 49 workers laid off 120,000 ...
The fact that Dick Van Dyke turned 100 on Dec. 13 is remarkable enough. But the entertainment icon hasn’t simply made it to the century mark; he’s remained purposefully engaged in life and with those around him: acting, dancing, mentoring younger performers, and spreading joy to millions. Van Dyke is a reminder that aging does not diminish our capacity to contribute. In fact, it often enhances ...
A standard journalistic practice at this time of year is to list the high points of the past 12 months. But a review of President Donald Trump’s year finds far more lows than highs. Trump can justifiably take credit for brokering the end of the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza that the Biden administration was unable to stop, though sporadic clashes still occur and a permanent peace still seems far ...
Until now, the most terrifying sight in the history of college football was Dick Butkus, the ferocious University of Illinois linebacker (1962-1964), flattening an opponent. Now, however, an even scarier sight is Maria Cantwell carrying a letter.
After Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were stabbed to death, President Donald Trump went off on a social media tear denouncing Rob Reiner for supposedly having a “mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.” Asked about the comment, Trump doubled down, saying that Reiner was “a deranged person” who “was very bad for our country.”
My wife and I are once again rewatching “Mad Men,” a show that has, for better or worse, lodged itself deep within my personality. I can’t remember the password to my bank account, or which of my kid’s “Spirit Days” is next Tuesday, but I can endlessly quote “Mad Men.” We just finished season one, which ends with “The Wheel.” You remember it; the episode where Don Draper pitches Kodak on a ...
I had dinner with my son recently, and as tends to happen with us, we started talking about Quentin Tarantino's two-part masterpiece, "Kill Bill." We fell in love with the movies when they were released more than 20 years ago, when my son was in elementary school, and we have seen them countless times. My son had bought tickets to see the recently released "The Whole Bloody Affair" — which ...
Though I tend to think it’s usually a waste of space to devote a column to President Donald Trump’s personality – what more is there to say about the character of this petty, hollow, squalid, overstuffed man? – sometimes the point bears stressing: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.
I get the appeal of “Heated Rivalry” and why it’s been plastered all over my social media feeds. The ambiguous sexuality of the two lead twunks, their butter-smooth skin, blade-sharp jawlines and sculpted abs nested neatly in our favorite homoerotic contact sport – hockey, that is – seem predestined for fan-fiction folders of smut-obsessed netizens.
Folks, the cheese has officially slid off our president’s cracker.
There is a measure of comfort to be taken in the fact that Sunday’s terrorist attack at a Hanukkah event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, which left at least 15 people dead and many more injured, also produced a hero. A man described in news accounts – but not yet confirmed by the New York Times – as a local shopkeeper named Ahmed al-Ahmed single-handedly disarmed one of two terrorists and survived being shot twice, in a scene that was captured on camera and has since gone viral.
