The downfall of Eliot Spitzer’s bright political career — “Long before there was Barack Obama there was Spitzer. While Obama toiled unknown in Illinois, the Bronx-born Spitzer won himself a national reputation as the “Sheriff of Wall Street”…Before America fell in love with its first black president, people wondered if it was willing to embrace its first Jewish one…

Sometimes you don’t need it to be good. You just need it to be over. — When I was in Japan, a bus driver yelled at me and a friend. We were asking him about directions for about 20 seconds, and we got enough information to realize we weren’t on the right bus. We got off. My friend is Japanese, and I’m not. He explained the…

My first illness in three years hit me like a train — The past two days, I’ve called in sick at work. I haven’t tested positive for COVID (I’ve tested four times), but I’ve had every COVID symptom in the book, from a sore throat, fever, cough, and loss of taste. …

Sometimes, all you have to do is ask for help — For those who don’t live in the United States, toll roads help you get places faster, but you have to pay a price to get on through these roads. …

The shooter gunned down Black people indiscriminately but spared a white employee’s life — If you know teenagers in this day and age, you know they love technology and love social media. Despite my school and my classroom having no-phone policies, it’s incredibly difficult to regulate technology use this late in the year. This week, phone and social media use have been even more…

At least I don’t have a phone that can explode on me. — I have an iPhone, and I’ve been using iPhones for almost a decade now. By contrast, my fiancee uses an Android. I hate messaging Android phones so much we use Facebook messenger to text and send attachments and images. Every time I have to use her phone to make a…

Turner is looking into plastic surgery to show he’ll be different — Local man, Jeffrey Turner, has been absolutely appalled by a comment from a family friend, “you look just like your parents!” The family friend said he had the face of his father, and the nose of his mother, but Turner is shocked because he vowed his whole life to never…

No, but it’s falling behind its competitors — When you think of the biggest pizza chains in America, you usually think of Domino’s. But anyone who grew up or lived through the 21st century knows another incredibly popular pizza chain: Pizza Hut. My brother and I thought Pizza Hut was the best fast food pizza chain growing up…

Oklahoma’s contentious pushback to a landmark case on Native rights — News of the Supreme Court, and American politics in general, has recently centered around a leaked draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade, which is a shocking revelation that has rightfully dominated headlines. Roe, which has protected abortion rights in America for half a century, is…