For me, peak Colbert has been what he’s done with “The Late Show” since he got fired. It’s akin to the way Republican Gov. George Ryan cleared death row in my home state of Illinois on his way to prison: With nothing to lose, the man was at his absolute b... See more
Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who is up for reelection in Maine, was hounded into “admitting” that she has an essential tremor, as if she had stolen from a children’s charity or failed to disclose her side hustle in heroin. Then came the online high-five... See more
Every time there’s a headline that the war in Iran may be winding down, bombs go off and wind it right back up again. So maybe I shouldn’t say that the president has cooled his jets when it comes to the pope, but he has taken a break from going off on the... See more
Of course you walk into Broadway’s Music Box Theater to see “Giant” knowing that you are going to see that nice John Lithgow in a show about children’s author Roald Dahl’s howling antisemitism; at these prices, everyone who is there very much wants to be.... See more
Remember when MAGA Republicans said that anyone so hateful as to blame Charlie Kirk for his own murder should be out of a job? Firefighters, teachers, and active-duty military personnel were fired as a result. If the principle behind that outrage still ho... See more
