Earlier this week NBC hosted their much-anticipated Friends reunion special, a nostalgic reprieve from the stream of presidential debates clogging the airwaves lately. The reunion was a little grassy knoll in the desert of election season, and we couldn’t help but think how much better all this would be if ... More

For a number of years Chris Christie was considered one of the Republican Party’s rising stars, and after the 2012 election he even seemed poised to be the GOP’s frontrunner for the presidential bid. He won over voters with moderate politics and an unfiltered, at times even combative persona (“Man ... More

The last woman standing in the GOP presidential race was, well, the only woman ever standing—but she took a seat this week when she ended her bid for leader of the free world. She says she doesn’t intend to put her feet up and sip daiquiris by the pool for ... More

Debbie Dingell is less than a year into her freshman term as the congresswoman for Michigan’s 12th district, but it’s a job for which she has spent nearly her entire life preparing.  A onetime General Motors executive, Dingell—who drives a red Cadillac—has been married for more than ... More

With Donald Trump’s three eldest children helping to run the day-to-day operations of his company, the presidential aspirant can focus on polls and policy. So says his 31-year-old son, Eric, who has been “putting in a lot of flight miles” to keep the family firm on the right ... More

In No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money, author David Lough reveals a lesser known side of Winston Churchill. Although the famous prime minister is certainly seen as a risk-taker by many for his fearless decision-making during World War II, the extent of the chances he took with his personal finances ... More

On Friday, Emma Didlake, the oldest living World War II veteran, was welcomed at the White House for a special meeting with President Obama. The 110-year old veteran—who joined the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in 1943—traveled to the nation’s capital from her home in West Bloomfield, MI in a private ... More

On a frigid mid-February evening, a meeting of the Harvard College Anscombe Society is late getting started. Outside, the snow in Cambridge rises depressingly high, and the sidewalks are streaked with salty slush. The gloom extends inside room 107 of Robinson Hall, where the Anscombe Society’s executive officers, all three ... More

Just before Thanksgiving at the St. Anthony’s Turkey Carve, city officials were gathered, ready to slice up birds for San Francisco’s homeless. And while many were engaging in boisterous conversations or brandishing knives for the cameras, one man was quietly focused on the task at hand.  “You know how Obama ... More