The divorce memoir is a curious subgenre. It’s a survival narrative with a twist. The author is alive but the marriage is dead. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life by Lyz Lenz is something else as well: a diatribe against the whole institution of heterosexual marriage. But whether it
When mom asked for my phone password in high school I nearly died. She had noticed, she’s told me since, that I hadn’t been myself. Aware that my online life was embarrassing and not actually me, I pleaded with her to give back my phone, hoping, praying she wouldn’t discover any f-bombs or vain mirror
West Virginia senator Joe Manchin, a 2021 Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year, said on Friday that he has registered as an independent, leaving the Democratic Party after more than four decades. “To stay true to myself and remain committed to put country before party, I have decided to register as an independent with
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D,. Texas) and his wife Imelda have been charged with accepting and laundering more than half a million dollars in foreign bribes, according to an indictment released by the Department of Justice on Friday. Cuellar and his wife allegedly pocketed “at least $598,000 in bribes from two foreign entities”: an oil and
Biden judicial nominee Amir H. Ali in November received a “Justice Tribute” award from an Arab-American civil rights group that supports the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, and whose board member has praised Hamas and other terrorist groups. The Arab American Civil Rights League, based in Dearborn, Michigan, has called for boycotts of the
A viral clip of an interview with President Joe Biden’s economic adviser Jared Bernstein shows the official struggling to explain why the U.S. government chooses to borrow money when it can just print more. “The government definitely prints money, and it definitely lends that money … by selling bonds. Is that what they do? They
The U.S. labor market in April added fewer jobs and saw slower wage growth than anticipated, with the unemployment rate edging higher, according to the jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday. The April data showed the economy added just 175,000 jobs and the unemployment rose to 3.9 percent, falling short