From the first Black president to the first African-American woman ever elected to the United States Congress, Black people ...

Phyllis Mikulski of Warwick, NY, entered into rest on Sunday, January 18, 2026. She was 83. The daughter of the late Robert Gardner and Evelyn Space Gardner, she was born on February 2, 1942. Phyllis ...

As an avid traveler, I spend a lot of time exploring new destinations, and I rarely reach for the word “perfect.” Still, Santa Barbara may be the closest I’ve come to finding a place that truly ...

Opening night blends a sweet adoption drama with a pointed defense of artistic freedom as SBIFF settles into its downtown ...

I confess to not having given much thought to the historical origins of free speech before reading Fara Dabhoiwala’s marvelous history, What Is Free Speech? As an American, the right to freedom of ...

Hamnet star Jessie Buckley took home Best Female Actor (Motion Picture – Drama) at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, giving a moving speech that thanked basically the entire cast and crew of Chloé Zhao's ...

When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stepped to the podium at the Lincoln Memorial on a stifling hot August day in 1963, he faced a cast of characters who also knew how to command a stage. Most now ...

Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson did not mince words after his team’s dramatic win over rival Green Bay Packers in the first round of the NFL playoffs. “Hell yeah!” Johnson said to his team after ...

Folks, the cheese has officially slid off our president’s cracker. In what was technically a prime-time address to the nation, President Donald Trump spent about 20 minutes on the night of Dec. 17 ...

10/10/2025 Brief amici curiae of 18 Members of the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives filed. VIDED. 10/24/2025 Brief amici curiae of State of Tennessee, et al. filed.