• Michael Jordan’s ‘maddening’ Bulls dynasty take irks Jerry Reinsdorf

    Michael Jordan’s ‘maddening’ Bulls dynasty take irks Jerry Reinsdorf

    “The Last Dance” was a fun trip back in time. But the docuseries dominated by Michael Jordan’s point of view left out so many details of the 1990s Bulls dynasty. At the conclusion of the final episode — after owner Jerry Reinsdorf said it would have been too expensive to bring back the core pieces …
  • Poll: Americans Increasingly View China as an ‘Enemy’ amid Coronavirus

    Poll: Americans Increasingly View China as an ‘Enemy’ amid Coronavirus

    More U.S. voters see China as an “enemy” than as a friend or ally amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new Politico/Morning Consult poll. The data shows that the percentage of U.S. voters who see China as hostile has risen 11 percentage points since January to 31 percent, while the number of respondents who …
  • Emergencies Do Not Expand Constitutional Power

    Emergencies Do Not Expand Constitutional Power

    Fear is a powerful driver of public policy. Ordinarily, that is not greatly troubling.  We have speed limits, food sanitation laws, and many other regulations based on rational fear of harm. Sometimes in extreme circumstances, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, fear is so pronounced that it leads government officials to declare an emergency, which under …
  • Michigan Gov. Whitmer Confirms Biden Is Considering Her for Veep

    Michigan Gov. Whitmer Confirms Biden Is Considering Her for Veep

    Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer revealed Tuesday that she talked to former vice president Joe Biden this week about possibly being his running mate. “I’ve had a conversation with some folks,” Whitmer said in an interview on the Today show. “It was just an opening conversation and it’s not something that I would call a professional …
  • Nasdaq Plans to Delist China’s ‘Luckin Coffee’ for Inflating Sales Numbers

    Nasdaq Plans to Delist China’s ‘Luckin Coffee’ for Inflating Sales Numbers

    The Nasdaq Stock Market notified the Chinese cafe chain Luckin Coffee that it plans to delist it from the U.S. stock exchange, the company said Tuesday. The Listing Qualifications Staff cited two reasons in their written notice for the decision to delist, the company said in a regulatory filing, including “public interest concerns” related to …
  • A chef grades Jennifer Lawrence’s roasted chicken recipe

    A chef grades Jennifer Lawrence’s roasted chicken recipe

    Fans are calling fowl on J.Law’s roasted chicken recipe. On Monday night’s episode of “Amy Schumer Learns To Cook,” the comedian called up her “homegirl,” Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, to get the skinny on her poultry recipe, which calls for 2 cups of olive oil and 1 ¹/₂ sticks of butter. “I like to get it …
  • Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ‘keeping it simple’ in LA for second anniversary

    Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ‘keeping it simple’ in LA for second anniversary

    From their fairytale royal wedding at Windsor Castle to camping out at Tyler Perry’s $18 million Beverly Hills mansion — it’s been a long two years for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. But as the Duke and Duchess celebrated their second wedding anniversary on Tuesday — their first since leaving Britain — there was radio …
  • Jim Edmonds keeping kids in quarantine after their self-isolation with Meghan King Edmonds

    Jim Edmonds keeping kids in quarantine after their self-isolation with Meghan King Edmonds

    Jim Edmonds’ three younger children are back in his care amid his custody battle with estranged wife Meghan King Edmonds. The former MLB star reunited with Aspen, 3, and twins Hayes and Hart, 1, in his native St. Louis earlier this week. He is now keeping the kids in quarantine, an insider told us. In …
  • Lockdown Is Ending, Whether Governments Approve or Not

    Lockdown Is Ending, Whether Governments Approve or Not

    Executive orders may have encouraged the lockdowns, but they always depended on voluntary behavior. Some states have lifted their COVID-19 lockdowns or announced plans to let more businesses reopen soon; others have extended stay-at-home orders into late May or even early June. But regardless of what officials dictate, data from Apple and Foursquare suggest the …
  • Australian University Threatens Student with Expulsion Following Criticism of China

    Australian University Threatens Student with Expulsion Following Criticism of China

    An Australian university will hold a hearing on Wednesday to consider the expulsion of a student after he protested against the Chinese Communist Party. Drew Pavlou, 20, is a philosophy major at the University of Queensland, whose website states that it possesses “more student mobility, research collaborations, and commercialization partnerships with China than with almost …