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Growing up in the Boston suburbs, in the shadows of Harvard, there was only one school I wanted to go to: Radcliffe, which in those days was the name of the undergraduate school for women at Harvard. I had a great uncle who taught at Harvard Medical School, which is the closest anyone in my family got to Harvard. I did everything a middle-...Read more

"Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, pulls from 200 interviews in order to expose Democrats' coverup of Joe Biden's cognitive and physical decline from his son Beau's death in 2015 through his presidency and into his misbegotten 2024 reelection campaign...Read more

The penny, which costs more to make than it's worth, will be going away. That's a shocking reversal of government policy. Usually, the government doesn't stop producing anything that's overpriced or just plain worthless.

I'm just about old enough to remember little pieces of candy that sold for a penny at a little wooden-floored store near my...Read more

Five years ago this week, "the summer of protests" erupted. On May 26, 2020, in Minneapolis, protesters responded to George Floyd's murder. The previous day, a white police officer had kneeled on his neck. On May 28, 2020, protesters responded to the police killing Breonna Taylor. Taylor had been murdered March 13, 2020, but it wasn't until May ...Read more

Wyoming is the second windiest state, after Nebraska. It's obvious why the wind power industry is investing $10 billion there. And it's hard to see why any state politician would oppose this. But some have. Wyoming is one of those fossil-fuel producing states in which so-called conservatives feel obligated -- or are paid -- to stop competition...Read more

This was Donald Trump's Memorial Day Message:

"HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY THROUGH WARPED RADICAL LEFT MINDS, WHO ALLOWED 21,000,000 MILLION PEOPLE TO ILLEGALLY ENTER OUR COUNTRY, MANY OF THEM BEING CRIMINALS AND THE MENTALLY INSANE,THROUGH AN OPEN BORDER THAT ...Read more

Let me count the ways.

Donald Trump excels at broadsides against bright places and people that burnish our world.

But now, it's getting personal.

Trump is stealing what I hold dear. I'm not even speaking of press freedom or his suing CBS News, where I loved my first job.

I mean the Library of Congress and the Kennedy Center for the ...Read more

There is a species of birds named "superb starlings," and I propose that we elect one of them to be our next president.

These wise creatures have figured out how to make egalitarianism central to their society, with a diversity of birds actively supporting each other. When bringing food back to their chicks, for example, adult starlings ...Read more

On Wednesday evening, Sarah Milgrim, 26, and Yaron Lischinsky, 30, went to a party in Washington, D.C. She was a Jewish woman from Prairie Village, Kansas; he was a Christian and a citizen of Israel. The couple worked in Israel's Embassy to the United States. They were scheduled to fly to Israel that weekend, where Yaron intended to propose ...Read more

In February, the National Institutes of Health -- the world's largest public funder of biomedical research -- began an ideological purge of its grants. Without warning, hundreds of research projects -- many of which had been underway for years, representing thousands of hours of work and billions of dollars in investment -- were abruptly ...Read more

She did not even know what habeas corpus is. It should come as no surprise, judging from her actions.

At a hearing, she was asked by Sen. Maggie Hassan, a New Hampshire Democrat:

Senator Hassan: "Secretary Noem, what is habeas corpus?"

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem: "Well, habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president...Read more

"What did the president know, and when did he know it?" That was the iconic question posed by Howard Baker, the ranking Republican on the Senate Watergate Committee, during televised hearings in 1973, to former White House Counsel John Dean about Nixon's knowledge of and involvement in the break-in at Democratic HQ and the subsequent coverup. ...Read more

I fell in love with audiobooks when my kids were young. We would stop at the library before a road trip and choose a few for our drive. I still love audiobooks. Many times it's a good audiobook that gets the chores done and the house clean. These days I use Audible or the library's Libby app.

June is the Audio Publishers Association's Audiobook...Read more

There are two things some of us know about taxes.

The first is that taxes are unfair because, "Hey! I earned that money."

The second is that if we didn't pay ANY taxes, then every government service would be free because if you don't pay for something, then it's free, right?

This is the kind of math that keeps the lottery in business. The ...Read more