by Zach Przystup As middle age looms, some shell out for a new watch or car or boat or private island or rocket ship. Me? I just bought my first […]
Author: Syndicated Columnist
Are your elected officials principled or stubborn?
by Megan Rawlins Woods As I watched the debt ceiling standoff between Republican lawmakers and President Joe Biden over the last several months, I returned to a question I have […]
A dark drive of the soul
by Peter Mehlman A golf course in Encino. A phone call. It’s my college roommate, from the East Coast. A friend has died. “Oh, no.” “But you don’t know how […]
Are UFOs a threat to national security?
by Tyler Cowen Last week’s congressional hearings on UAPs, more popularly known as UFOs, were unusual even by the standards of U.S. politics — in both content and style. Not […]
A Trump-Biden rematch? Odds are against it
by Gene Lyons Maybe it’s my advanced age talking, but I doubt very much that the conventional wisdom regarding the 2024 presidential election will play out as expected: that is, […]
Latest Trump indictment defends America’s battered democracy
by Noah Feldman This is the big one: the first time the Department of Justice has ever indicted a former president for subverting democracy by trying to steal an election […]
The border isn’t an impossible problem
by Christopher M. Richardson While the end of Title 42 did not lead to the border surges some anticipated, America still faces an immigration crisis, with a backlog of nearly […]
No election system is an island
Why more states must eliminate partisan primaries by Dr. Richard Barton There is growing mainstream consensus that partisan primaries are one of the main causes of government dysfunction. They disenfranchise […]
Why do I hoard more books than I could possibly read?
by Chris Vognar Publisher’s Weekly recently reported that book sales for the first half of the year are down once again, continuing a trend that has accelerated since the pandemic. […]
Actors are striking because we’ve long been in crisis. It’s not just streaming
by Maria Prudente In late 2014 I was hired to play friend #3 in a new commercial for Garnier Nutrisse, the at-home hair color line. The company offered me a […]
