The school-age aardvark of Marc Brown’s children’s books and long-running animated series finds his muse in a new musical in ...

July 18, 2024, to be exact—my friend and colleague Lou Dobbs passed away. Lou was a conservative media titan whose decades of nightly appearances on CNN and later FOX News Channel (plus his daily Lou ...

Looming federal funding cuts for PBS put in jeopardy some of the most-used educational videos and games shown to help ...

T he Internet can be an offputting place sometimes, and not even an entity as wholesome as Sesame Street's Elmo is safe from ...

Mael isn't the first artist to take a swipe at Trump's policies and how they affect the arts. In 2017 during his first term ...

Readers weigh in on developments in Washington, including spending cuts and deportations, in letters published July 14-20, 2025.

For example, liberal pundit Robert Reich claimed Trump was trying to “fire Elmo” and compared this action to slaveowners and the Nazis. (In reality, only 4% of Sesame Street’s funding came from the ...

The U.S. House cleared legislation just after midnight Friday that will cancel $9 billion in previously approved spending.

Over the past decade since my fellow Iowans sent me to Washington to make the big spenders squeal, I’ve been exposing waste, ...

Broadcasters like NPR and PBS stations get roughly half a billion dollars in public money through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Congress voted to rescind $1.1 billion, or two years of ...

Last week, the X account for Elmo, the beloved Sesame Street character, was hacked. During the account’s hacking, multiple ...

Bachrach star in 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps.' Plus, Adam Sandler revives a classic character for 'Happy Gilmore 2,' a new season of 'Acapulco' premieres, and more.