As we enter into the period known as the winter blahs, with the holidays rapidly fading in our memories, millions of pro football fans will settle in front of their TVs to observe the last weekend of the NFL season. A few contests will have important playoff implications, but the…

As we look back on this most tumultuous year, we had a bit of everything: a horrendous, inexplicable war, more and more disastrous climate change events including wildfires and floods, mass shootings and more mass shootings, inflation and looming recession, the tenaciousness of Covid, the collapse of the crypto myth…

In the first visit to the U.S by a significant foreign leader during President Joe Biden’s tenure, he and President Emmanuel Macron of France demonstrated remarkable comity that can without cliche be characterized as a lovefest, despite minor differences in their support of Ukraine and economic competition that should not…

Now that we have had over a week to absorb the results of the midterm elections, what conclusions can we draw? Aside from the obvious, the prospect of a fractious Congress split between the parties, here are the most significant developments of the surprising tallies. The 2020 election is over…

“Violence is as American as cherry pie.” -H. Rap Brown The critical mid-term elections are only a week away, and the prospect of the Republicans taking over at least one, and perhaps both, Houses of Congress is growing, due to three major factors: a first-term president always loses seats due…

On October 31, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in cases against two elite universities, Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, that are likely to end any consideration of race in college admissions decisions. The arguments from both sides are as binary as it gets…

Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) -Ethel Merman Men have been screwing up since the beginning of recorded history. While Moses was arguably the greatest Old Testament Superstar, his mess up with God cost him the chance to lead his people into the Promised Land. …

“We’re going to win so much, you’re going to get bored with winning” -Donald J. Trump For a guy who claims to be nothing but a winner in life, former president Trump has a legal losing streak that even the New York Jets can’t match. First there is his 1–64…

The old joke about Finns is that the way to tell an introverted Finn from an extroverted one is that the former looks at his shoes when he talks to you, and the latter looks at your shoes. Well, defying this stereotype is Sanna Marin, the country’s 36 year old…