Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...

Artificial Intelligence is not only responsible for worrying amounts of earth-warming greenhouse gases: the technology's environmental footprint is also expanding at a pace that could strain the plane...

As the midterm elections draw near, it seems ever likelier that we're finally going to witness a reckoning for Republicans. For nearly two years now, Republican members of the House and Senate have t...

Not everyone likes Mondays, which we are sure we’ve noted before, but … we do! MLB Monday is one of our favorite pastimes, so here we go again. This time around it’s a career retr…

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We don’t need a phony Presidential Medal of Freedom here, but this is our second NFL Thursday column in a row! We still love the NFL, despite its flaws, and this week we want to check back in…

The cronies of his second term are heading for a harsher comeuppance.

Tracking what tech billionaires spend on California's 2026 elections.

We return to MLB Monday today with our take on longtime outfielder and Cooperstown inhabitant Carlos Beltrán. A controversial figure in the sport for many reasons (which you can read about here), h…

A young Haitian man walked in front of a truck. His blood is on J.D. Vance’s hands

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It’s been three months since our last NHL Saturday miniseries column, and with the new regular season kicking off this week, it’s time to check in with the San Jose Sharks. When we last…

Palmer Luckey has donated $5.9m to Republicans and bundled more, while reaping billions in Pentagon contracts

It is time for another Friday Funday column, and today we go back in time: Hall of Famer Red Schoendienst. He played 19 seasons in the majors from 1945-1963, beginning as a left fielder and mostly …

The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.

We don’t do a lot of NFL Thursday entries these days, and we’d like to change that. However, we often do not have much to say. It’s been more than five months since our last colum…

The WNBA Tuesday piece today looks at the first games of the current postseason, four of them, played on Sunday. There were some surprises, and there were some predictable results. Since the openin…

Because he fears he can’t prevail any other way

Here we go again with some Saturday Smugness for everyone as we look at the upcoming WNBA playoffs, which start tomorrow. The regular season was a little weird, with a two-week break before the fin…

It’s time now to do our annual thing on MLB Monday, where we predict the World Series based on the past 30-plus years of results. There are 12 teams in the baseball postseason, and the verifi…

Trump’s AG quietly hands a judge FBI notes on a Trump accuser, Bari Weiss’s CNN takeover wobbles, and America ships gay refugees to countries where being gay can get them killed

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The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

With less than a week left in the regular season now, we take this time on WNBA Tuesday to look at the statistics of Caitlin Clark, for the first time in awhile. Not much has changed, as the Indian…

Continuing with our fun exploration of the past today on MLB Monday, it is time to look at the major-league career of centerfielder Jim Edmonds, four-time All Star and eight-time Gold Glover. In a …

We do something different today on WNBA Tuesday as the league is on break for the FIBA Worlds. It’s always interesting to consider a coach’s playing background in a sport, as it can tel…

We start a new month of MLB Monday with a glance back at former major-league shortstop Royce Clayton, a guy who played with Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, and Juan González—not to mention Iván Rodrígue…

We open the September 2026 window of Friday Funday pieces with a look at longtime MLB first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz—certainly not known best for his career achievements. Forget on how to pronounc…

This is the third time on WNBA Tuesday that we’ve devoted space to predicting the final record for the 2026 Golden State Valkyries. The first time we landed on 31 victories, and the second ti…