Last week, a 17-year-old boy in a wig and a skirt made national headlines by demanding to use the girls"€™ restroom and locker room at his small-town Missouri high school. The young man, whose real first name has not been ...

The Week's Most Nationalistic, Chauvinistic, and Voyeuristic Headlines TRUMP INVADES POLAND Poland is a proud nation in Eastern Europe which has endured endless invasions and centuries of suffering. This is why Poles, ...

The first thing I noticed about the headline of a recent story on the Guardian website was its grammar: Nauru, Second refugee at Australian detention centre sets themselves alight. This is English at its most hideous: ...

There’s an old saying I just coined: “You can ignore the race war, but the race war won’t ignore you.” No matter how insulated you think you are, the people in this country who are dead-set on making everything ...

The Week's Most Paranoid, Schizoid, and Negroid Headlines BLACK LIVES MATTER ORGANIZER CHARGED WITH PIMPING Black Lives Matter is undeniably the most important and inspirational civil-rights movement of our time, which is ...

In the lead-up to the Fahrenheit 451 reenactment planned for Milo Yiannopoulos"€™ upcoming book Dangerous, Buzzfeed and its coterie ran pieces on the incendiary's previous forays into publishing. Under the pseudonym Milo ...

Janeane Garofalo likes her politicians like she likes her coffee…black. In her most recent psychotic attempt to help the black achiever Herman Cain, Garofalo ranted: People like Karl Rove liked to keep the racism very ...

The Week's Leakiest, Sneakiest, and Creakiest Headlines A DELUSIONAL LOSER NAMED REALITY WINNER Yes, her real name is Reality Leigh Winner. Her parents named her that and are perhaps to blame for many of the things that ...

Works of art looted by the Nazis remain a subject of much fascination in the 21st century. This year's movie Woman in Gold with Helen Mirren as a Los Angeles woman battling in court to get back her aunt's Gustav Klimt ...

Back on July 19th I wrote about taking the family shotgun apart. Curious readers have been emailing to ask if I ever succeeded in getting the thing back together. Yes! The reassembled mechanism"€”load, fire, ...

In its never-ending search for scapegoats, the left has decided that Nancy Reagan bears full responsibility for her husband's response to the AIDS crisis (apparently, attacking first ladies is totally cool as long as their ...

Last week an up-and-coming rapper known as Young Dolph was shot multiple times in Los Angeles. It appears that he will live, which portends wonderful things for his musical career. Young Dolph—born Adolph Thornton, Jr. to ...

The concept of America being divided into sprawling red Republican regions and dense blue Democrat districts first became a cliché In November"€“December 2000. Over the past decade and a half I"€™ve probably thought ...

I used to see him in El Morocco, the most famous nightclub of its era during the late 1950s and early 60s. He was a very handsome man, beautifully tailored and with impeccable old-fashioned manners, and a heavy drinker. ...

People who live among words, books, and ideas, and who are scholars, or hobnob with scholars, or dream of being scholars, occasionally need reminding of the social world's true contours. Human society is just a ...

NEW YORK—Election-night fever is heating up, and I hope the party I’m giving on the evening of Nov. 3 will not end in fisticuffs. All my guests except one are Trump haters, so my dinner looks a bit like the Last Supper ...

Okay, sports fans, get your wallets out and start giving. That’s the latest brainstorm from a New York Times columnist who makes however unconvincing a case for reparations to black people. For slavery, that is. And that ...

Canadians like to tell themselves that their nation is progressive and tolerant, but they are masters at the art of self-deception. Even though Canada is larger than the USA in geographic terms, it only holds one-tenth as ...

Did you ever have two different news stories collide in your head, leaving both with dangling fenders, shattered headlights, and leaking radiator fluid? I did, just this week. Exhibit A is the Korean pop singer who calls ...

Today at 2:30PM, philanthropist Brooke Astor’s son Tony Marshall is expected to be sentenced to one to three years for...uh, I can’t seem to get a straight answer on what he did wrong. The New York Post acts as ...

A central conundrum of the 2020s is why respectable opinion has gotten so out of touch with reality on questions touching race, such as crime. Are mainstream pundits lying, intimidated, deluded, hate-filled, or just ...

Voula Papachristou isn"€™t all Greek to me. What I mean is, the triple-jumper's blonde locks look downright Swedish. My experience with Hellenic femininity begins and ends with Toronto's Danforth Avenue, where the ...

NEW YORK—It’s been a rough year for stump speaking in general, but let’s make a resolution for 2018: We need to start listening to these White Pride guys in the polo shirts and khaki pants. And we need to start ...

It's the trial of the cunt-ury! Hey, give me a break. You try coming up with something original to say about Canada's most talked-about court case pretty much ever: The something-for-everyone pseudo-celebrity sex saga I ...