Yesterday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio took yet another cheap shot at NYPD officers who turned their backs…

While we wait for the results in the Great House Republican Insurgency of 2015 (John Boehner looks to have dialed…

Expect more bills outlawing taxes on tanning. By a vote that went almost exactly as expected (although who saw Yoho…

Approximately one hour into the 114th Congress (not the 118th, as previously – gawd, I’m not that old yet), the Obama…

Never mind the other consequences of this video. Just enjoy the unqualifed awkwardness of the moment Chris Christie group-hugs away…

Earlier today, I listened to “Only One”, the new single by Kanye West featuring Paul McCartney released on New Year’s. It…

Bess Myerson, the only Jewish winner of the Miss America pageant turned New York City public official, died on December…

Greg Abbott will be sworn in as Texas’s new governor next week, and by all accounts, he’s ready. [[{“type”:”media”,”view_mode”:”media_large”,”fid”:”96528″,”attributes”:{“alt”:””,”class”:”media-image”,”height”:”287″,”typeof”:”foaf:Image”,”width”:”480″}}]] That’s…

Writing in Al Jazeera America, a Ph.D. student in “religion and critical thought” at Brown University recently declared 2014 “the…

When I was a child, my Aunt Pearl, Pearl Weiss, was a glamorous figure. She was my father’s younger sister,…