It’s probably an apocryphal story, but in 1930, when Babe Ruth was negotiating his contract — he wanted $85,000 per season — Jacob Ruppert, then-owner of the New York Yankees, asked how could …

On Election Day on Nov. 5, I can say with some certainty: The House of Representatives will go from a Republican to a Democratic majority. A blue House matters, because the speaker’s gavel will …

A late September, 200-mile drive through the sunny center of northern and central Illinois reveals blue sky, yellowing fields, and not one roaring red, green, or silver combine gathering in any of …

“Whoever controls the media controls the mind.” — Jim Morrison After Ronald Reagan struck down the Fairness Doctrine and the Equal Time Rule, Republican money men got the memo. Whichever …

JONESBORO, Ark. – Minnesota Governor and Vice Presidential contender Tim Walz shamed Senator and Donald Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance of Ohio Oct. 1 in the only vice presidential debate of 2024 …

Perhaps you’ve noticed from the shrinkage (or total elimination) of your local newspaper that this source of hometown journalism has become monopolized, nationalized and trivialized by conglomerate …

I had just turned off MSNBC when the doorbell rang. nnA dark-skinned man stood outside. He pointed a menacing weapon at my head (later Googled as a laser-sighted bazooka). “Salir de su casa,” …

My oldest born is a high school junior, taking his first steps into the hypercompetitive and bewildering world of undergraduate college applications and future careers. So, I was drawn to a recent …

The Biden Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission keep breaking new ground in their efforts to revive antitrust enforcement against a capitalist system that grows ever more concentrated and …

“The greed of the John Deere company is giving President Biden the perfect opportunity to win back working-class voters. All he needs to do is put up a major fight to stop Deere from shipping U.S. …

This fall there will be two United Nations-sponsored conferences on different continents. First in Colombia, a biodiversity conference will address the growing threats to the world’s plants and …

It broke Cynthia Overby’s heart over the years to see her students struggle to afford menstrual products, try to get by without them or skip school some days for the privacy of home. The …

Here we are. Crunch time. And the fun never stops. Even after a fairly civil debate from the VP candidates, we suffer through lots of media-driven drama and a smidgeon of issues. Instead of leading …

Since Donald Trump began dominating our politics, we have gotten extraordinarily accustomed to horrifying language and behavior by leaders and candidates. I’d guess, when you think about it, …

Kamala Harris wants to “turn the page.” It’s a slogan with multiple meanings. Does she want to turn the page after a decade of Donald Trump dominating the political headlines, or transition …

It’s certainly been interesting to meet many stars and celebrities over my nearly half a century as an entertainment journalist. Especially when my enjoyable experience with them rubs up …

We all know that vice presidential debates rarely move the public opinion needle. In 2020 Donald Trump was thrown out of office by a record 81 million voters because he was Donald Trump, not because …

Since his 1986 TV debut on Miami Vice, actor John Leguizamo has been a drag queen in 1995’s “To Wong Foo,” Tybalt in 1995’s “Romeo + Juliet,” Toulouse-Lautrec in 2001’s “Moulin …

Well, here we are—Crunch Time! It’s become a drag to think about/listen to/research/opine on the distance between Rs and Ds, and how massive the differences have become. If I have to read …

Since COVID, Americans’ overall mental health has plummeted. A lot of us suffer from depression, anxiety, substance abuse — a gamut of diagnoses. The causes are not so much biologic as social. …