2017
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Betsy DeVos’s First Actions in Office
Today, the U.S. Senate confirmed the supremely unqualified Betsy DeVos as secretary of the Department of Education. Ignoring her many critics, the billionaire has just announced the first sweeping initiatives to prove she can more than handle this important position. — Pick up dry cleaning for the boss to show I’m a real good secretary! […]
Movie Review: Café Society
4 stars out of 5 Since 1991, I’d seen 24 of the previous 25 Woody Allen films in the theater. (For you trivia nerds: Melinda and Melinda) And in the past handful of years, I’ve enjoyed a ritual of seeing Woody’s annual summer release. In the dark, air-conditioned theater, it was like taking a little […]
Goodnight P.T. Barnum
This weekend, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced that after 146 years, they’d be folding up the tents and coming to town no more. It was pretty shocking news to see. The circus just seemed like one of those forever things. But I guess forever ain’t what it used to be. When I […]
Similar Names, Different Callings III
ABC News White House correspondent Jon Karl… …and former MDA Telethon hostess Jann Carl.
Jack Silbert, curator