“From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.”

If you have not already heard about Republican U.S.

Exactly.

This is for the many MAGAts who finally seem to be dumping Trump.

This cartoon is by the always excellent Nick Anderson, drawn for today’s The Contrarian. In republishing it, my point is as simple as the cartoon: I believe AI cannot be that lucidly creative and insp...

(Wait till he finds out.)

Give a creative answer to a young child’s typical questions. And winning transformations of basic symbols.

He is a paper tiger.

Get it? GET it?

We get to flush him!

. . . It's kind of pathetic.

— Yesterday, the servile board of trustees of the stately John F.

Seventeen years ago I wrote a magazine story about parents who accidentally leave their children to die in hot cars.

Something unusual today: We are going to start with a poll, and only afterward will we explain why we are asking.

Rand Paul makes a Faucian bargain...

This just "ism" good, at all.

In the last few months, two Republican members of Congress have been weirdly absent from public view: New Jersey Representative Tom Kean Jr.

Let's give Trump's coin some new ... currency.

Something bad is going to happen tomorrow night. I am not talking about Donald Trump’s primetime address to the nation about how the 2020 election was stolen from him.

CNN just moved a story alert saying that Elon Musk, the man deputized by Donald Trump to bring more instant misery to the world than any other human being, has finally — officially — become the world’...

The hullaballoo over whether Mitch McConnell still lives — and if so, in what condition?

Sorry for the intrusion.

Until a couple of days ago, I’d thought I understood Jeffrey Bezos’s shameful financial abandonment of the Washington Post.

At 9:39 on the morning of Saturday, July 28, 1945, 20-year-old Betty Lou Oliver had just started her shift as an elevator operator at the Empire State building in New York.

To: Frank Bisignano, commissioner, Social Security Administration

Overnight, Donald Trump posted the following:

TO: Ed Woods, Vice President & Chief Revenue Officer, The New York Daily News

I have a thought I’d like to share with you. Before I do, it’s only fair to warn you: This will make no sense unless you believe, as I do, that Donald Trump is fundamentally a simpleton.

It starts in 2029. It won't be easy, but it could be fun.

Please help me understand this story.

. . .Say Boo. (An open letter to New York Knicks fans)

“Is it around the back?’ Rachel asked.

Grandpa and Her Children: The saga continues

(A Somewhat Cautionary Tale)

In which we plumb a disturbing truth

“The Post needs to be a profitable enterprise that stands on its own two feet, because that’s a measure of its relevance.

A story for our times.

My advice? Poop it out, and then flush.

Behold my solution to a problem that may soon be consuming the Defense Department: How to spend the obscene oodles of boodle Donald Trump’s lapdog Congress seems poised to deliver to them for fiscal y...

Behold my solution to a problem that may soon be consuming the Defense Department: How to spend the obscene oodles of boodle Donald Trump’s lapdog Congress seems poised to deliver to them for fiscal y...

History doesn't always echo. Sometimes, it mocks.