“Who’d have thought it’d be not me?”: “SNL” recreates Trump reaction to Oval Office fainting
This week’s episode of “Saturday Night Live” opened with a soliloquy from President Donald Trump, using the occasion of a…
Trump stumbles and bumbles in the wake of Democratic wins
There are many reasons why Democrats won landslide victories in Tuesday’s off-year elections, not the least of which is that…
Nancy Pelosi knew and used her power. So should Democrats
It’s fashionable now to criticize Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic gerontocracy. The party, after all, has a yawning…
Parenting in America is hard. Italy showed me another way
The other day, while catching up with an American mom in Italy, she told me about her friend in Los…
Supreme Court to hear religious freedom case that’s united both sides of the church-state divide
In recent years, litigation on certain types of religious freedom lawsuits have been practically run of the mill: prayer on…
In “Christy,” Sydney Sweeney’s only fighting herself
Considering what happened to the intrepid Christy Martin, the fighter who put women’s boxing on the map in the 1990s…
At Yale University, things are getting Orwellian
On Tuesday, Sept. 30, the Yale University Film Society, via email, announced a screening the following day of “Orwell: 2+2=5,”…
Zohran Mamdani took on the entire political establishment — and won
It’s already clear that the election of Zohran Mamdani as New York City’s mayor is a historic moment — not…
How a loss of public benefits harms democracy
In 2004, Phil Bredesen, the former Democratic governor of Tennessee, made significant changes to the state’s Medicaid program, TennCare, such…
Trump’s White House renovations fulfill Obama’s prediction, kind of
President Barack Obama famously chided Donald Trump in April 2011 during the annual White House correspondents’ dinner. The reality show…