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The evolution of my Thanksgiving plate

How did I go from not caring about Thanksgiving at all to highly anticipating the holiday? This is the dark, twisted origin story of my plate. A reckless juvenile on 440 N. Robinson Street My earliest memories of Thanksgiving date…

November 6, 2025 · by Jamie Cook · 0

Got holiday travel plans? Don’t eat at this airport

Most airports aren’t necessarily revered for their dining options, especially when it comes to quality and taste. However, one takes the stale cake for serving abysmally poor food. Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, is officially the most…

November 6, 2025 · by Jamie Cook · 0

The 5 best instant coffees that will make you ditch your at-home coffee maker

My earliest memory of coffee dates back to sleepless nights spent at the campus library in college. My eyes barely managed to stay open as I attempted to re-read a passage from my hefty textbook for the fourth, fifth (perhaps,…

November 6, 2025 · by Jamie Cook · 0

Nancy Pelosi announces retirement from Congress after nearly 40 years in the House

Former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has announced that she will not seek reelection, bringing to a close her nearly four-decade career in the House. The move follows rumors earlier this week that she was “preparing to exit the…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Congratulations, it’s a Kardashian! “American Horror Story: Delicate” delivers a new scream queen

When it was first announced back in April that Kim Kardashian would be joining the twelfth ensemble of Ryan Murphy’s “American Horror Story,” avid viewers of the buzzy FX series sat back and prepared to laugh. Myself included. It turns out,…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

“All’s Fair” and the problem with Kim Kardashian

If you haven’t yet subjected yourself to the three-episode premiere of “All’s Fair,” I have a challenge for you: Break out a stopwatch, start the timer the moment the action begins, and see how long it takes for your jaw…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Another kind of Democratic freshman: Rep. Mikie Sherrill is still working for compromise

When I ask Rep. Mikie Sherrill, a congressional freshman from New Jersey, what’s driving her to serve in this Congress, her answer is simple: “Catholic guilt.” It’s more complex than that, of course, but that response offers a glimpse into…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

My Thanksgiving: How testifying for Native Americans made me a witness to history

In my career as a historian, I have learned in a personal way that being a witness to history is a two-way path. In one direction, encountering events and people from the past has enabled me to construct and refine…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

“She saw something I did not”: Tapper apologized to Lara Trump over Biden decline dust-up

Jake Tapper offered a mea culpa to Lara Trump on Tuesday, sharing that he was wrong to berate the Fox News host in a tense 2020 exchange about President Joe Biden‘s alleged mental decline. The CNN host extended the olive…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

The National Guardsman who won’t take orders from Trump

Dylan Blaha, an Illinois National Guard member, is waging a campaign focused at bringing an affordability agenda to Washington D.C., while sounding the alarm on President Donald Trump’s politicization of the United States military. In May, Blaha announced that he…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0