In 2020, Chinese President Xi Jinping declared, "The east is rising, and the west is declining." It certainly looked that way during former President Joe Biden's term. In August 2021, Biden surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban. During the chaotic pullout, a suicide bomber killed ...
"Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose," a New York Times bestselling book by award-winning author and journalist Jennifer Breheny Wallace, has made an instant buzz with readers this year. "Mattering" was released in January and is getting rave reviews ...
I hurt my knee taking a step onto a riser in a performance at my kids' elementary school the other day. I'm not sure yet how serious the injury is, but it's the kind of incident that makes you feel about 100 years old and like a complete moron. I mean, who gets hurt taking the ...
The worst of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's many terrible moments in last week's congressional hearings on immigration control probably came when she admitted to being unfamiliar with the shockingly appalling case of Marimar Martinez. She is the Chicago woman who managed to ...
"It's Israel's war," our collection of smooth-brained podcast class declared as they rushed to pump out as much propaganda as possible in the aftermath of the joint American-Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic of Iran. The range of arguments we're seeing from this less-than-serious ...
One of the most pernicious and destructive cultural trends in the United States over the past 30 years or so has been the demonization of men and masculinity. This has taken many forms. Take, for example, the medicalization of boyish behavior in schools, which resulted in ...