Andy Borowitz is a commentator for NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, as well as a writer, actor, and comedian whose work regularly appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Newsweek.com. He is the first winner of The National Press Club’s humor award and has won five Dot-Comedy Awards for his Web site, borowitzreport.com.
Hundreds of thousands turned out across France to protest everything from the lack of school funding to economic inequality. Police also were out in force to prevent a repeat of last week's violence.
President Trump is weighing the possibility of another major attack on Iran. Today, just a few blocks from the White House, military veterans dedicated a memorial to an earlier Middle East conflict: the 1991 Gulf War, which was a military success, but is often overlooked.