A young, progressive, relatively unknown member of the state legislature runs for U.S. Senate, attempting to flip a seat held by a Republican. He wins the Democratic primary with 53% of the vote, including delivering strong margins in counties where Democrats had previously struggled. His message is one of unity

If you haven’t heard or told a 9/11 joke, I am going to assume you died on or before Sept. 10, 2001. 9/11 jokes have become deeply rooted in youth culture and especially comedy. This seems to intrinsically make sense to most people. Whether they justify the jokes by acknowledging

Hello again Hoot readers! Hopefully, you enjoyed the brief period of actually good weather that we just experienced. Now that the weather sucks again, though, we’re all back inside watching movies, so we felt like sharing with you our favorite guilty pleasure movies. Ethan: I am, without too much embellishment,

On Feb. 28, the U.S. and Israel launched a massive air campaign against the state of Iran. The next day, President Trump announced that one of the airstrikes had killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had ruled Iran for the past 47 years. Nobody should be sad that Khamenei

Hello again, our most valuable Hoot readers. For the past several weeks, our country’s greatest athletes competed in the Winter Olympics in Milan. Despite none of us being anywhere close to athletic enough to even have a chance to qualify, our editors have some strong opinions about the games. So,

Last week, President Donald Trump released an A.I.-generated video of himself playing hockey for Team USA and punching members of the Canadian team. Three weeks ago, he shared an A.I.-generated video depicting former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. These videos are not unique; the