The building’s facade is gone this morning — an ugly gash reminiscent of the smoldering Pentagon on 9/11. This disfigurement is not the act of terrorists or foreign foes. It’s the work of our president. The East Wing of the White House, which has housed the visitors center, the office ...
Jim Newton Itasca A friend told me about lying on his bed when he heard the TV on in another room. He got up to see what sounded like Saturday Night Live running a Trump speech parody. It turned out to be an actual Trump speech, the one given during the Gaza end-of-war ceremonies. We both ...
I don’t get politicians who rail against billionaires. There are all kinds of billionaires. Many got rich inventing products we hold dear. Others got rich doing societally useless things like inventing crypto meme coins. And some made their pile through corruption and crime. This is about ...
Tim Mannello Williamsport Back when Barack Obama was president, the U.S. deported about 914 undocumented immigrants every single day. Fast forward to the Trump administration, and that number has dropped slightly to around 800 per day. On the surface, these figures might seem like just ...
Imagine a city street at dusk, silent save for the rising sound of a collective guttural moan. Suddenly, a horde of ragged, bloodied creatures appear, their feet shuffling along the pavement, their hollow eyes locked on fleeing figures ahead. A classic movie monster, the zombie surged in ...
Dear Annie: My husband and I have been married for 11 years, and we’ve always kept separate finances. It worked well until about a year ago, when he got laid off and started dipping into our joint emergency savings without telling me. I only found out when I went to pay our property taxes and ...