I get up in the morning and take a shower. It feels good and wakes me up, but it is nowhere nearly as refreshing as the shower I take after a great workout, a day of working in the yard, or hours of volunteering to pour concrete and assemble benches in some sticky humidity. I’ve had plenty ...
A new war between the states is erupting — this time over abortion. A dozen states, including Texas and Louisiana, have enacted near-total bans on abortion. Eight other states, including New York, are going on the offense against these anti-abortion states. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul thinks ...
There's a lot of schadenfreude on the right, and even more lamentation on the left, about the cancellation of "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert." Donald Trump leads the schadenfreude caucus. "I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings," Trump crowed ...
Stephen Colbert is at the center of a conspiracy theory. It was born last week, when news broke of CBS canceling Colbert's late-night talk show. The network's move wasn't hard to understand: "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" reportedly loses $40 million a year, and Colbert is already ...
Zohran Mamdani's ideas are Bernie. But his political maneuvers are Donald. The similarities between the Democratic Socialist running for New York City mayor and President Donald Trump — as well as their respective bases — are fascinating. Like Trump, Mamdani's playbook is heavy on ...
We're a long way from the transcontinental railroad. We built the iconic American infrastructure project in the 1860s in about six years, putting down 1,776 miles of track and blasting 15 tunnels through the Sierra Nevada mountains. Granted, working conditions back then didn't exactly meet ...