When most athletes look back on their glory days, it’s the game-winning plays and the intense team camaraderie they want to relive. Not former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. ‘My victory was secure on the cross … and it doesn’t matter if I win this tournament or lose this tournament.’ Ten years after he […]

An old comment from Pope Leo XIV is circulating widely again on social media amid his ongoing apostolic journey to Africa, where he has been meeting with Muslim leaders and visiting Muslim holy sites, including the Grand Mosque of Algiers. In December 2025, during an in-flight press conference on the papal plane returning from his […]

As the state of New York continues to experience a mass exodus of its richest denizens, Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul is getting desperate. On March 11, during a Politico New York Agenda: Albany Summit, Hochul essentially admitted that the state is toast without the rich to sustain its costly social programs. “I need people who […]

Artificial intelligence has taken the wired world by storm, but the backlash came almost as fast. Progressives complain about job losses, environmentalists question the ecological impacts of large data centers, and local activists clamor for assurances that household utility bills won’t skyrocket because of the centers’ voracious electricity demands. Others simply worry that the technology […]

A deadly shooting that took place at a Northern California high school earlier this month has been deemed self-defense — but the student who allegedly fired the fatal shot isn’t completely in the clear. Sacramento County prosecutors have declined to file homicide charges in the case because the April 10 killing at Natomas High School […]

PORTLAND, Maine—Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) campaigned Saturday alongside Graham Platner, the left-wing candidate in the Maine Democratic Senate primary who has praised Hamas and until recently sported a tattoo of a Nazi symbol. Warren said Platner “has the values” to serve in the upper chamber and would bring “accountability” to Washington, D.C. Platner “is […]

Even if you loathe Bernie Sanders, you will adore this phenomenal and utterly charming 500-plus page love letter to the state of Vermont and its people. Superbly written—Dan Chiasson is a Wellesley College English professor and a well-known poet—it is also immersively researched, since Chiasson, who’s now 55, grew up in Burlington during the 1980s […]

Most readers of Josh Ireland’s Death of Trotsky will already know the basic outline of the story: Leon Trotsky falls out with Joseph Stalin after Vladimir Lenin’s death in 1924. He proves no match to Stalin; his faction loses critical Politburo debates; he is exiled, eventually lands in Mexico City, where he is assassinated on […]

I’ve never been to Maine, and all of the hikes I’ve ever taken can be tallied on one hand. Yet, somehow, in reading How to Survive in the Woods, Kat Rosenfield’s latest thriller, I find myself transported to a dense stretch of forest somewhere along the Appalachian Trail. Not the postcard version, the one with […]

In the last 58 years, the Philadelphia 76ers have won exactly one NBA Championship. That was in 1983, when two forces of nature—center Moses Malone and small forward Julius Erving—converged, finally delivering a title to a starving fan base embittered by previous playoff heartbreaks to the legendary Boston Celtics, led by Larry Bird, and Magic […]