High-scoring, history-making, lead-blowing hockey is on full display in the Stanley Cup Final between the Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes. But is it among the greatest finals ever played? "Everyone that texts me is saying it's the best hockey they've ever watched," Hurricanes ...
How can Graham Planter, who might win the Democratic nomination for senator from Maine in next Tuesday's primary election ever be seriously considered for such a job, given the amount of personal baggage he carries? The answer is we have so lowered our standards and think so little of our politicians that, as the saying used to go, anyone can grow up to be president, or senator. Planter has been accused of so many things that just one would have been enough to derail his candidacy in another era when character mattered. Today, power is all that appears to matter and the way in which ...
No pope can afford to be completely apolitical, but Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, is proving to be more political than most -- and he's siding with the left. It's a grave mistake that can only hurt the Catholic Church on both sides of the Atlantic. Leo has been in Spain the last few days, where immigration is today the dividing line between left and right. Vox, the Spanish populist party, is surging in popularity, and recently the older conservative People's Party has signed on to Vox's idea of giving Spanish citizens priority for receiving government services and benefits ...
Editorial Cartoon
NEW YORK — The last time the New York Knicks lost a game, they didn't do it again for another month and a half. When they fell behind against Atlanta in the first round of the NBA playoffs, desperation turned into domination. The Knicks won 13 straight games, many of them blowouts, in one ...
On Sept. 30, 2024, prominent progressive thinker and author Ta-Nehisi Coates appeared on "CBS Mornings" to promote his new book focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, "The Message." Coates' argument echoed many standard left-wing tropes about the intractable conflict, framing it as an intersectional battle between an illegitimate oppressor group and a helpless oppressed group. Tony Dokoupil, whose children live in Israel with their mother, pushed back in the interview. He stated that "The Message" "would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist," and he further argued ...
