Afternoon Links: The Frying Pan Cam, the NRA Loses It, and Making Congress Great Again
Plus, Cleveland's greatest bar chain turns 35.
Plus, Cleveland's greatest bar chain turns 35.
Plus, a nugget catastrophe.
What’s the latest in this week’s issue? Here’s our editor in chief Stephen F. Hayes on what is in the latest edition of this week's magazine:
Three pros vs. 100 kids. Japanese television always seems to have strange innovations, so it should come as no surprise that they recorded three professional soccer players playing 100 kids. Fascinating.
The Lake Erie salt mine 1,700 feet beneath the lake is a modern marvel. Growing up in Cleveland, I had heard about this mine, but this was pre-YouTube and the modern internet that can showcase it in all its glory. Check out the video and the interview, it's pretty neat.
Ted Cruz, the Texas senator and one of Donald Trump's main rivals in the Republican presidential primary, has endorsed the Republican nominee in a lengthy Facebook post. "After many months of careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience, I have decided that on Election Day, I…
Philadelphia
The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with editor William Kristol on Donald Trump's convention speech and about spending a week at the RNC Convention.
In his Thursday night convention speech, Peter Thiel cribbed his same old thesis but Trump-style.
Cleveland
Cleveland
Cleveland
This wasn't supposed to happen.
The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with staff writer Jay Cost on Trump's poll numbers and the upcoming GOP convention.
In a little museum at my father's law firm's home office in Cleveland, there is a collection of knickknacks and mementos of the firm's history. Whenever I visit, I have to drop by to marvel at a baseball hat that I assume nobody has ever worn, out of fear of perpetuating the curse that's led to…
With the Republican National Convention in Cleveland rapidly approaching, local officials are taking advantage of a $50 million federal security grant to stock up for the coming protests.
On Greta last night, RNC chairman Reince Priebus suggested to Fox News viewers that even the vice presidential nomination could be contested at the GOP convention in Cleveland later this year.
The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior writer John McCormack on the state of the GOP race and this summer's RNC Convention in Cleveland.
I'm not a Rams fan. This is because I do not respect football teams that play indoors, a practice (rightly) mocked by my people: Cleveland Browns fans. Not that we have much to brag about other than our terrible weather.
In the near future, 18-year-olds in Cleveland, Ohio, will be able to vote and enlist in the military. But they won't be old enough to buy a pack of smokes.
It will come as no surprise to readers who are also sports fans that Cleveland has lost again—this time, at the Supreme Court.
Coming off a well-received performance in Thursday's 5 p.m. debate, Carly Fiorina appeared on MSNBC's Hardball, where host Chris Matthews grilled the Republican candidate over her onstage claim that Hillary Clinton lied. "Hillary Clinton lies about Benghazi, she lies about e- mails," Fiorina said…
In high courts across America, judges are rendering their spring-term decisions. And in Ohio, the City of Cleveland has tacked another loss onto its growing pile of collective losses.
The RNC’s Site Selection Committee has recommended Cleveland, Ohio, as the host city of the 2016 Republican National Convention. Cleveland last held a national political convention in 1936, when Kansas governor Alfred Landon defeated Senator William Borah of Idaho for the Republican presidential…
The Scrapbook hesitates to kick a football town when it’s in the dumps, but we are baffled by the crazy news coming out of Cleveland. And no, we’re not talking about the Cleveland Browns coaching drama.
In the beginning, there was the Harvard Lampoon. And it was good. And the Harvard Lampoon begat the National Lampoon. And the National Lampoon begat the live stage show Lemmings. And Lemmings begat Saturday Night Live. And Saturday Night Live begat the movie Animal House and Spy magazine and The…
Cleveland
Ohio's congressional delegation is shrinking; Washington state's is growing. So with the prospect of losing his congressional seat to redistricting, Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich is exploring a House run in Washington, far away from Cleveland, the city he was once the mayor of. “My district…