

“Get big money out of politics.” So screams Bernie Sanders’ campaign website. Elizabeth Warren has her own iteration of the phrase, as have many politicians, even some ...

How funny it is when silly political correctness gets tangled up. The latest case has been a description of the Spanish actor Antonio Banderas (in magazines such as Vanity Fair ...

One oddity of discourse is that novel phrases seem more likely to catch on if their meanings are opaque than if they are self-evident. Having to know a semisecret code makes ...

Everyone else wants the names of the FBI officials who approved the unprecedented law enforcement dragnet against low-level Trump aides in the middle of a presidential ...

Life is full of irritations, major and minor. One of the minor irritations is the activity of the Sock Fairy, the sprite who seems to inhabit all washing machines, at least all ...

Which trait most accounts for the spectacular career of Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic’s race blogger–turned–intellectual superstar? Coates, widely assumed to be America’s ...

Move over, Muhammad; you’re no longer the only sacred icon that can’t be drawn as a cartoon. Black people are now on the small and exclusive list of things that will spark an ...

I"m not a fan of Mexican food, for reasons which should be obvious. Although I hold Mexicans in the highest esteem as a proud and noble (if exceedingly short) people, they ...

Bill Nye became famous in the 1990s with a PBS kids" show called Bill Nye The Science Guy. His new series for Netflix is called Bill Nye Saves the World. See the difference ...

This is a story of love, hate, interracial romance, journalistic malpractice, and anti-Semitic bomb hoaxes. It involves a young black man named Juan, whose mother named him that ...

If you"re baffled by a women's march that excluded thousands of women and was run by an extremist Muslim, well then you “literally just can"t even,” which is ...

Get your red pill ready"the Matrix is real. At least that's what a bunch of tech nerds think. Two high-dollar Silicon Valley investors are paying scientists mondo bucks to ...

America is obsessed with keeping black women happy. The bigotry of low expectations is strong with the treatment of black men, but when it comes to they baby mommas, shit is off ...

No matter what one may think of transvestites trannies transsexuals transgender people, it’s hard to deny that they are tremendous entertainers. Few other allegedly ...

J"aime Paris. And by "aime" I mean "love," not "like." I proposed to my wife under the Eiffel Tower and have been visiting regularly since the "80s ...

I"ve oft complained about the infantilization of American adults, but something strange is happening. We"re going from "Comic books aren"t just for kids ...