A Year in Reading What Is Somaliland, and Do We Have to Care About It? The wars that someone’s ancestors fought in are beside the point. Responding to internet-driven debates of late over American ...

Brian T. Allen, art critic E Is for Edward, a centennial celebration of the work of Edward Gorey, reminds us that savants still wander the Earth. “I’ve been murdering children in my books for years,” ...

Eephus mourns America’s last baseball game.

C onservatism has been tagged as not a body of thought but a series of “irritable mental gestures.” No matter which is the more accurate description, as a holiday exercise I decided to put together ...

Horse Therapy, Gender-Neutral Bathrooms, and Hate Crime Work Leave: The Wild Blue State Laws of 2025 Mamdani’s Hands-Off Approach to Homeless Camps Could Spell Disaster for NYC 2025, the Year of the ...

Democrats talk a big game on bringing down costs, but in reality, their energy approach raises the price of everything.

A Chinese crypto kingpin, a libertarian cyber hero, and a Honduran drug lord all benefitted from Trump’s largesse this year.

The hospital is at risk of losing Medicaid and Medicare funding for providing gender change surgeries and procedures.

T his year brought an abundance of good books, and I use the word “abundance” under advisement. After 2025, I can say with no fear of contradiction that I am fully up to speed on the topic. As a ...

‘I want, I want” is William Blake’s 1793 philosophical cartoon showing a child reaching the moon not via a spaceship but a ladder. T. S. Eliot said Blake’s engraving, the size of a playing card, ...

J ust before Christmas, Ben Sasse, who served as a United States senator from Nebraska between 2015 and 2023, announced that he has an advanced case of cancer and he's going to die soon.

The Trump administration has cited the Somali fraud case as an example of why the U.S. needs to mass deport illegal immigrants.