“Spectacular” may be too strong a word. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are spectacular. How about “damned good and worth getting at the first available opportunity” for J&J instead? Today’s announcement of the new FDA analysis is a prelude to the meeting of outside advisors that’s scheduled for this Friday, where experts will debate whether

Here’s a little comic relief. Hillary Clinton and her long-time friend Canadian author Louise Penny are writing a book together. It’s being described as an international political thriller and the storyline sounds very familiar. In fact, the book sounds as though it is a not-so-thinly veiled recollection of Clinton’s time as secretary of state. The

Yeah, sorry, Rick. Only one person gets to decide whether that’s true. And it sounds like he’s in a warlike mood. Perdue had dinner with and played a long round of golf with Trump last week. It did not go well. Two ppl briefed on the meetings said Trump was very focused on McConnell and

I’m willing to cut him slack on asking vaccinated people to still wear masks when they’re out and about in the near term, as that’s a minor imposition to protect the unvaccinated when we’re still not sure how contagious the average vaccinated person might be. (Although the early evidence is: Not very.) But asking the

The soccer players on the U.S. women’s national team are not going to be kneeling in protest of police brutality and systemic racism during the national anthem anymore. U.S. defender Crystal Dunn said she and her teammates are “past the protesting phase”. Team member Megan Rapinoe began taking a knee during the national anthem in

It’s not exactly earthshaking. But it is politically revealing. On Sunday, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said he will not support a Donald Trump reelection bid in 2024. Wise politicians do not normally announce their specific intentions 40 months before they have to. It’s another sign of the party’s ongoing , necessary and healthy struggle to

The Supreme Court has had a busy morning deciding what they won’t do. First they declined to block Cyrus Vance’s subpoenas for Donald Trump’s tax records, and then they cleared the decks of the remaining challenges to election results. That made it a very bad day for the former president, but perhaps also for those hoping

You may not see much news coverage on the world’s 100,000 airplane flights that land safely every day. Let one of them crash, however, and you’ll see smoldering wreckage and sobbing relatives for 24 hours. It’s the same in news coverage of U.S. politics. Now for the first time in memory a research team has

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, finds herself in a mess of her own making. She is being criticized for using money from a taxpayer-supported expense fund for purchases of groceries and alcohol, along with dry cleaning. Wagyu beef, anyone? According to a report detailing purchases made with the expense fund released last

You probably remember all the fawning news and magazine coverage during Melania Trump’s four graceful years in the White House. The oohs and aahs about a stylish first lady who speaks five languages, an immigrant from Slovenia who crafted a successful career as a super model, how supportive yet carefully candid she is about her

Jodi Shaw was a staffer at Smith College in Massachusetts. Last October, Shaw became a kind of whistleblower when she posted a video on YouTube last October describing some of the experiences she was having at the school. “I really don’t want to be making videos. I don’t want my face on a video camera

We’re very glad to have Karen back with us after surviving the Texas snowpocalypse. She’s been through a harrowing experience but is sharing some information about the collapse of the Texas energy grid from a first-hand perspective. Karen brought up some of the ongoing debates over how the Texas energy grid managed to undergo such

The death Wednesday of iconic talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh brought out some ugly online trolls seemingly pleased with the passing of the 70-year-old conservative from lung cancer. But in Florida, where the Missouri native has lived and worked for decades in Palm Beach, it brought out an unusual honor. Gov. Ron DeSantis has ordered state

This seems like a shame — a shame that it didn’t include the resignation of the entire board. Oakley’s school board made national news when a parent recorded what members thought was a private conversation, and captured the board’s contempt for parents anxious to get their children back in school. Board president Lisa Brizendine resigned

Looks like the trainwreck that pretty much everyone predicted has arrived. Whose bright idea was it to pick political elbow-thrower Neera Tanden to run the Office of Management and Budget, anyway? Oh yeah. Joe Manchin slid the knife into the nomination a few minutes ago, but Joe Biden can’t say he wasn’t warned all along: “I

So much for the “Love Gov” and America’s paragon of cooperative leadership, eh? Politico reports this morning what everyone in Albany and the Big Apple already knew. Andrew Cuomo is an abusive bully whose biggest achievement appears to have been suckering the media: Similar experiences for other New York political figures, only a fraction of

She’s not the hero we deserve, but Dolly Parton is the hero America needs. Tennessee lawmakers had hoped to move on from a debate over Confederate memorials by honoring one of the most beloved Volunteers instead. The idea of building a statue of Parton quickly gained bipartisan support and a bill quickly emerged to authorize

No one gets out of this life alive. Still, Americans have been living longer each year, on average. We’ve been able to take that largely for granted. This is no thanks to all these post-Valentines candy sales. It is thanks to advances in medical care, medicines, attention to healthier eating and personal fitness. However, there’s

In recent weeks, Oakland’s Chinatown district has experienced what some locals have described as an epidemic of crime. A significant number of assaults and violent, armed robberies have taken place in and around the shops in the area on an almost nightly basis. On Monday night, the owner of a liquor store had apparently had

Earlier this month Evan Rachel Wood came forward and named Marilyn Manson aka Brian Warner as the person who had physically and sexually abused her a decade ago. Four other women also came forward at the same time and accused him of similar abuse. In a podcast episode released yesterday, Manson’s former assistant Dan Cleary

Mercer Island is a suburb located directly east of Seattle. This week the Island’s City Council voted to make camping on public property a misdemeanor in an attempt to prevent their region from becoming overrun with homeless tent camps the way that downtown Seattle has in the past few years. The ordinance, which was approved

Was this just a “verbal stumble,” or an outright lie to boost his own standing on COVID-19 vaccinations? Last night in CNN’s town hall meeting, Joe Biden told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that vaccines can only impact the pandemic if we have enough “vaccinators,” which is true enough. However, Biden then told Cooper that not only

I saw this floating around on Twitter and my first thought was that it must be fake. But then I came across a NY Post story about it and, incredibly, this may be real. A city public school principal is asking parents to “reflect” on their “whiteness” — passing out literature that extols “white traitors’’

Via the Daily Caller, almost as interesting to me as Kudlow’s moment of candor is the fact that Axios posted the clip of its new interview with Harris yesterday and then quietly took it down at some point during the day. Is that because her “starting from scratch” quote was beginning to draw scrutiny from

The fallout from the impeachment trial is still going on. Some of the seven Republicans who voted with the Democrats to convict Donald Trump are facing a backlash from their state parties. Senator Bill Cassidy was censured by the Louisiana state GOP over the weekend and last night North Carolina Senator Richard Burr joined the

The San Francisco School Board has been in the news a lot recently. First it was controversy over the decision to rename 44 schools in the district. Then it was the decision to get rid of selective admissions at their best performing high school on the grounds that meritocracy is racist. Over the weekend, the

Last week the Lincoln Project published private messages between a former member named Jennifer Horn and a reporter for a site called The 19th on Twitter. Those private messages were quickly pulled down after another former member of the group, George Conway, suggested their publication looked to him like a crime. Today, the story that

Defund in haste, repent at leisure. The Minneapolis city council reversed months of its own rhetoric on Friday by authorizing its police department to spend $6.4 million in an effort to add desperately needed new officers to its depleted ranks.  It’s a clear retreat from the council’s “abolish the police” position of last summer, fueled

A political flashpoint erupted last week when it became apparent the Dallas Mavericks skipped playing the Star-Spangled Banner before their first 13 preseason and home games. Let’s ignore the fact fans were present for just one game and no one noticed until The Athletic noticed and reported it. The Internet and political horde immediately grabbed

The Sheriff’s Office of Nash County, North Carolina is marking Valentine’s Day with a very special offer – turn in your ex-boyfriend if he has an outstanding warrant. The sheriff will provide special holiday perks, free of charge. The Facebook page of the Nash County Sheriff’s Office posted a light-hearted notice for anyone interested in