Politics & Current Events

A Book Sitting Under Glass There is a book sitting at Yale University that has been frustrating some very smart people for more than a century. It is called the Voynich Manuscript, and it contains roughly 240 pages filled with strange writing and even stranger illustrations. Some pages show plants that are difficult to identify.

A Kid From West Philadelphia Let’s talk about Will Smith, because before Hollywood made him one of the biggest movie stars in the world, he was already making history in hip-hop. I cannot even say West Philadelphia without hearing “born and raised” somewhere in the back of my mind. Will was still a teenager when

I’m With You When You’re Right I always say I am with you when you are right, and Michael Irvin certainly seems right to me on this one. Before becoming one of the most recognizable personalities in sports broadcasting, Irvin spent twelve seasons wearing that Dallas Cowboys uniform. He was not somebody watching their glory

The Movie That Feels Impossible Memento is unsettling because its main character cannot form new long-term memories. He relies on notes, photographs, and tattoos to remind himself what happened and who he can trust. Even people he has just met can quickly become strangers, leaving him unsure whether the information guiding him is true or

The Headline That Made Everybody Stop I saw a headline on social media claiming that a Nigerian couple kidnapped an ICE agent who came to arrest them. Naturally, that headline caught my attention. It sounded so wild that I knew there had to be more underneath it. The incident actually happened on December 10, 2025,

When Protest Meets Power There are moments when sports become about more than the game itself. They can reveal deeper truths about power, money, race, and who is welcomed into the room after the protest ends. Colin Kaepernick became one of those moments when he began protesting racial injustice and police brutality during the national

My Car Is Private, But It Is Not Legally My House I understand why somebody sitting behind the steering wheel might say, “This is like my home, and I do not want to get out.” A vehicle can feel deeply personal because we spend so much of our lives inside one. We keep our belongings

The Argument on the Side of the Road I watched an exchange between a driver and a Border Patrol agent that reminded me how easily people can talk past one another when constitutional rights are involved. The driver kept insisting that the agent had to articulate the reason for stopping him right there on the

The Vote and the Consequences There is an old saying that elections have consequences, but sometimes folks do not understand those consequences until they come knocking at their own front door. In the case of American farmers, that front door may lead straight to a barn, a soybean field, a cattle pasture, or a tractor