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Tim Graham: Who is renaming everything on the map? It’s not just Trump

In one of his Truth Social bombs, President Donald Trump insisted we should rename Lake Ontario to Lake America after Canada refused to accept his trade negotiation terms. It obviously echoes his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. It's easy to find these whole geographic ...

Barry Wurst: ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ is a Looney, moving masterpiece

The decades of abuse suffered by Wile E. Coyote, forever unsuccessful in his efforts to capture and devour the Road Runner, almost match the torture inflicted on Dave Green’s “Coyote vs. Acme.” Here’s a movie, completed in 2023, that its studio infamously decided to shelve ...

Veronique de Rugy: Will we get price relief or a Canadian trade war?

I will never understand why President Donald Trump, brought back to office partly in response to a sharp rise in prices during the Joe Biden interlude, would pursue the expensive tariff policy we've been subjected to since the beginning of 2025. And yet here we are, with another reason to be ...

Victor Davis Hanson: Progressive regression and the new medievalism

For most people, the story of the medieval world was one of cramped cities, constant violent crime, and episodic outbreaks of deadly plagues — the dividends of unclean urban conditions, rotting food, fouled water, open sewage, and unchecked rats, fleas, and lice. Most of each day was spent ...

Jamie Stiehm: A tale of our town — and yours

WASHINGTON — The city takes a deep breath after the president's IndyCar auto races came and went without crashing a precious Smithsonian artwork, and before Congress returns. Cicadas and tennis balls make background music. Thank god we didn't lose a Cezanne or Renoir as IndyCar drivers ...

Laura Hollis: No, the world would not be a better place if women ran it

Frankly, I always thought that sentiment was ridiculous in the first place. Anyone who went through middle school, junior high or high school knows full well the kind of nasty behavior that females are capable of. But there's garden-variety "mean girl," "queen bee" snark, and then there is ...