Recent Columns
May 15, 2024
by Alexandra Paskhaver
I’m such a square, my ears have corners. I make my bed every morning. But this scintillating lifestyle has its drawbacks. I’ve started to think about taking up martial arts. Sure, I take risks...
May 15, 2024
by Danny Tyree
Tyrades! Understandably, I was intrigued by a May 11 “New York Post” article about a technological push to manipulate the weather...
May 13, 2024
by Elwood Watson
Last week, right-wing commentator Ann Coulter told former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to his face she would not have voted for him because he’s Indian...
May 13, 2024
by Joe Guzzardi
Former President Donald J. One of his fund-raising efforts asks supporters to help him choose his vice president. Type in the person’s name here...
May 13, 2024
by Tom Purcell
Home sales remain sluggish thanks to high interest rates and a shortage of homes for sale, and that is really bad for America. My first home, which I bought as a broke freelance writer, was a fixer-upper in need of major renovations...
May 13, 2024
by Christine Flowers
This week, I don’t want to get political. Don’t worry, the outrage has no expiration date, and will be useful for another set of Sundays. But not this week...
May 10, 2024
by Daryl Cagle
When will a presidential election NOT be the most important of our lifetime?..
May 10, 2024
by Michael Reagan
Editor's note: Michael Reagan is on vacation this week. He will return with a new column for Friday, April 18...
May 9, 2024
by Dick Polman
Let’s contrast the candidates. Meanwhile, in Manhattan, lowlife Donald Trump stewed while the porn star he screwed dished the dirty details of what transpired while his third wife was home with a newborn...
May 8, 2024
by Alexandra Paskhaver
New York has been voted the ugliest American city, not because of its architecture, but because of its people. It’s because of its architecture. Europe does things a little better, but not by much...
May 8, 2024
by Danny Tyree
Tyrades! I know that restaurants advertise their “value menus” and retailers offer no-frills knockoffs of their glitziest products, but I keep picturing the corporate CEOs loathing such concessions as a necessary evil to appease the (ugh!..
May 7, 2024
by Peter Roff
The lockdowns instituted during the COVID pandemic were only supposed to last a few days. Two weeks turned into three, then months. Schools were closed, disrupting the education of millions of children...
May 7, 2024
by Elwood Watson
Editor's note: This column have been updated to include the correct name of an individual identified as shouting racial epithets. Ghosts of Mississippi...
May 6, 2024
by Christine Flowers
It seems silly to write a column about the recent college protests. And yet, here we are...
May 6, 2024
by Tom Purcell
My mother would have been considered eccentric had she been financially wealthy. But she is wealthy in the ways that really matter, and her greatest wealth is teaching the art of laughter...
May 2, 2024
by Daryl Cagle
School protests have dominated the headlines this week, as demonstrators have clashed with police at universities across the country attempting to voice their opposition to Israel's war in Gaza. There was also South Dakota Gov...
May 2, 2024
by Michael Reagan
Making Sense By Michael Reagan What a good week it should have been for Republicans. The protestors demanded their schools condemn Israel’s invasion of Gaza, come out in support of Palestinians or divest themselves of any Israeli investments...
May 2, 2024
by Dick Polman
Way back when I was a boy, the U. Supreme Court was so revered as an institution that my fourth-grade teacher required us to learn the names of all nine members...
May 2, 2024
by Joe Guzzardi
Last week, amid nationwide student protesting that threatened Jewish students and effectively shut down college campuses, twenty-seven Republican senators sent Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona a letter urgin..
May 1, 2024
by Danny Tyree
Tyrades! Remember the scene where Allen’s character Alvy was stuck in line at the movies, subjected to the pompous blathering of a pseudo-intellectual?..
May 1, 2024
by Alexandra Paskhaver
If you want to see a flying whale, go to the Natural History Museum in London. That’s because it’s dead. Right when you enter the museum, you see that enormous skeleton suspended from the ceiling: a whole blue whale, or what’s left of it...
April 30, 2024
by Elwood Watson
To say that the following academic year has been riveting for higher education is an understatement. The result was a public relations disaster, shortly after which both Gay and Magill resigned...
April 29, 2024
by Christine Flowers
John F.. I have always been fascinated with people who find within themselves the ability to defy expectations, anger their presumed allies and follow their own conscience...
April 29, 2024
by Tom Purcell
The National Day of Prayer is on May 2nd this year. Like a lot of people, I don't pray until things go sour or I have some daunting challenge heading my way. I pray every April 15 — after cursing — when a large sum of taxes is due...
April 26, 2024
by Daryl Cagle
Editors were big fans of Chris Weyant this week, who had our top three most-reprinted cartoons. Weyant and a couple of cartoonists riffed on the new movie "Civil War," which has obviously political undertones for our divided nation...
April 25, 2024
by Peter Roff
Across the states, America's public employee pension plans are a ticking, insolvent time bomb...
April 25, 2024
by Dick Polman
Todd Blanche, who’s stuck with the hapless task of defending Donald Trump in criminal court, mouthed something in his opening statement that really pissed me off...
April 25, 2024
by Michael Reagan
Making Sense by Michael Reagan Another week, another round of Republicans attacking each other. The Republican controlled House, led by Speaker Mike Johnson, passed the Ukraine funding bill after what seemed like years of delays by a vote of 311-112...