Laughing Matters

Tuesday, Donald Trump hosted Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro at the White House. A  right-wing authoritarian who disparages gays and the...

On Sunday,  CNN is airing the second of a 4-part documentary “Tricky Dick.” It’s about Richard Nixon, the only president...

by Jack Neworth “Everything Trump Touches Dies” In 2018, longtime high-level Republican strategist Rick Wilson wrote a stinging and yet...

by Jack Neworth Michael Cohen and Cadet Bone Spur By the time you read this, Donald Trump will have returned...

By Jack Neworth Security Guard Blues, Part 4 I'd intended to write about this Sunday's Oscars but then it dawned...

Based in Chicago, The Onion is a newspaper organization that publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news. In...

Today is February 1. (How's that for late-breaking news?) In 13 days it will be Valentine's. Two days after that,...

There's an old political expression, “You can't fight city hall.” In Santa Monica, however, not only can you fight, you...

As Trump's shutdown continues to cause suffering for 800,000 innocent federal employees and others, I'm still shocked by his cavalier...

Tuesday was my good friend and Santa Monica resident since 1963, Jerry Rosenblum's 97th birthday. The word that best describes...