President Trump launched another salvo on Wednesday in his protracted battle with Harvard University, issuing an executive order limiting foreign student visas. And Harvard ain't backing down. In fact, the Trump administration's moves seem to have not only united the university in its defiance but also ignited the revolutionary spirit of the greater Boston community. In a column today, Esquire's political columnist, Charles P. Pierce, a Bostonian, gets into the Harvard vs. Trump battle and reminds us that his city has a long history of standing up to "blowhard kings and princes, even mock ones covered in gilt." You can read his latest piece here. – Michael Sebastian, editor-in-chief Plus: |
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The White House statement about new restrictions on foreign-student visas was both ignorant and insulting. |
As the proud father of a recent graduate from Harvard's Chan School of Public Health, I have a personal reason to be revolted by this act of vengeful, reckless stupidity. To that end, the president has ordered his minions to comb uninvited through the social media accounts of potential foreign students to find reasons to deny them their visas. Some brilliant physics major from Germany with a 4.0 once posted on Xwitter that the last season of The Apprentice was the worst? Sorry, Hans. You have to work elsewhere to discover your revolutionary new power source. This Proclamation was part and parcel of what was a busy day of presidential chest pounding and Proclamatin'. He also announced that he was simply banning all migrants from 12 countries, many of them violent wreckages of what they used to be. |
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- Here's more damning evidence that Trump's administration is reestablishing white supremacy. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is poised to deal irreparable financial damage to Indigenous colleges. Charles P. Pierce examines the bill's damage.. >>
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According to a survey by the market research firm YouGov, a whopping 40 percent of German men say they pee sitting down every single time. Plenty of guys in France, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, and Canada also regularly take a seat. But here in the good ol' U.S. of A.? Not so much. Only about 10 percent of American men say they always sit down, and nearly a third (31 percent) claim to never sit at all.Spend five minutes diving into the topic on Reddit and you'll quickly notice there's still plenty of stigma around men peeing sitting down. Just look at the search results: Posts about "peeing sitting down" have popped up at least three times in recent years on the "r/tooafraidtoask" subreddit. And in 2025 alone, the subject appeared in "r/confessions," "r/unpopularopinions," "r/askmen," "r/nostupidquestions," and "r/doesanybodyelse," each time drawing hundreds of comments. Clearly the subject strikes a nerve. For the latest installment in our series on the Secret Lives of Men, we talked to Charlie (name changed to protect his anonymity), a 37-year-old accountant who started peeing sitting down after getting sick of cleaning up splatter. He has zero regrets. |
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Cory Michael Smith is damn good at playing characters who ooze arrogance. In the Batman prequel series Gotham, he played the Riddler with just the right amount of bravado and camp for a man who commits crime while taunting do-gooders with riddles. In last year's Saturday Night, the 38-year-old actor took on SNL's Chevy Chase—introducing the comedian by pretending to fall over and then quipping, "Sorry. Tripped over my penis." Now, in Mountainhead—a new film from Succession's Jesse Armstrong—Smith plays the richest man in the world right as his social media empire's new AI platform accidentally ignites global societal collapse. |
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