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Former U.S. Rep. Bud Shuster, a one-time pillar of both Pennsylvania politics and American transportation policy — and my first boss on arriving in Washington — died this week. The boss was 91, had suffered a recent fall…

Pro-abortion activist groups are withholding support for some Democrat-backed measures because they don’t enshrine legal abortion after a child can survive outside the womb, according to Politico.…

Republicans ripped the potential indictment of former President Donald Trump Saturday, calling it “outrageous” and “politically motivated” in multiple posts on Twitter. “A Trump indictment would be…

The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) Stonewall Center will host a “Gender Repeal Party” on March 31 during which students can tear up birth certificates, according to its website. The Gender Repeal Party is a…

The host or the producers of The Dick Cavett Show possessed a sense of humor — or at least a sense of the absurd. The program’s many odd pairings included, especially, Raquel Welch and Janis Joplin. And then Douglas…

My parents were very different people from very different backgrounds, but they bonded over at least two things: movies and music. While their tastes in film overlapped heavily, he liked a lot of movies she didn’t care for…

Late this morning, we received this dreadful news: “It is with great sadness that the family of George Neumayr announces his untimely passing on January 19, 2023. He was abroad in Côte d’Ivoire, Africa, living out his…

The American Spectator lost a great friend yesterday, and America lost a great friend too. On Thursday, Paul Johnson passed away. He was 94. In our battle with the Clintons and our battle to keep this magazine free from…

I heard the news last Wednesday morning. My wife and I were doing our annual Christmas trip to Pittsburgh’s historic Strip District, a wonderfully authentic half-mile strip of ethnic grocers and markets and restaurants —…

In a way, he was the personification of tennis. Year-round tan thanks to the Florida sunshine, a smile that went from sly to joyous, a frown that verged on a fit of temper before turning into the teacher’s patient nod just…