Current Events

In Other News, Things Are Still Awful!

Beheadings, possible lynchings and, as usual, more shootings

Sep 23 •

America Is on the Precipice

Few will ever know the emotions of Iryna Zarutska when her feet first touched American soil.

Sep 16 •

The Exception`to the Partisan Rule

Lawmakers worked together to find a solution to the phones-in-school problem. Why can't they do it again?

Sep 9 •

Caitlin Clark Is a Big Girl. She Doesn't Need the Government to Protect Her.

Calls for a federal investigation will only make matters worse

Aug 12 •

How Sydney Sweeney Broke the Internet With a Dad Joke

I learned about homophones in my early grade school years.

Aug 5 •

CBS' Biggest Late-Night Mistake

It was giving Colbert the job in the first place, not firing him

Jul 22 •

Keep Your Shoes On

Kindly do not remove them upon entering the airport

Jul 15 •

The Ballad of Elon and Donald

Bromance ain't what it used to be

Jul 8 •

A Tale of Two Candidates

What the outgoing mayor of a small U.S. city can teach the potentially incoming mayor of the biggest one

Jul 1 •

The New Post-Dobbs Normal

Three years after the fall of Roe, American politics is remarkably unchanged

Jun 24 •

War. What is it Good For?

Absolutely nothing much

Jun 17 •

The Future is 100% Renewable Energy. The Future Isn't Now.

Lagging demand, technology and infrastructure mean that we can't make fossil fuels extinct yet

May 20 •

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