The Fifth Column

* The last one of the year

* The French public sector

* Macron and the menorah

* Exploding appliances

* Nick & Kanye

* N…

* I resign!

* (“That was a great apartment….”)

* I resign!

* (“That was the worst job….”)

* Mansplaining the war

* Too big to process

* It’s like 9/11 for Americans, and also not

* “You can still smell the…

* Can Kmele sing?

* A guy is surrounded by some racists

* In praise of…Alec Baldwin?

* Protesters are like racists

* Trump and Colorado

* Smart people who have come to some strange conclusions on this…

* H…

* It wasn’t a debate

* Moynihan loves islands. Who doesn’t?

* University stuff

* “Late capitalism”

* Walt Disney wasn’t a …

* Ron Karenga

* Handel’s Messiah and stock portfolio

* Musicology is dumb, says Matt

* Hip-hop is appropriation and it’s great

* Method Man thinks the Stones and Bootsy are the same

* The Fall of Minne…

* The editorial board of the Washington Post

* What what wrong with the cease fire

* On culpability

* Can there *be* a negotiated settlement?

* Is it really “the occupation”?

* That wild 2022 video fro…

* We ain’t gonna play Sun City

* RIP Shane

* George Santos: genius

* Gavin v. Ron

* Why would you do this, Gavin?

* This awful presidential race

* Hating WFB

* Be friends with and “platform” your political…

* A shooting in the hood

* The Oakland Politburo speaks. The world is appalled.

* The free speech issue vs. the universit…

Family beckons. Booze beckons. So we’re going to forgo the bullet points that we’re pretty sure you don’t read anyway and just say…Happy Thanksgiving, from your friends at the Fifth! And while you sh…

* Javier Milei, tantric drummer

* The hideousness of modern Peronism

* A brief digression on Aerosmith

* So how did we al…

* Live from Oakland

* Sex strikes

* Loving OBL

* Stop deconstructing stuff

* Seeing your friends spinout online…

* They’re not sending anyone anywhere

* Drunk Kathy Hochul and her bad, drunk ideas

* Not…

* “She’s reasonable in person” (🤔)

* In praise of…Estonia

* Are any expressly political comedians funny?

* Meetings interr…

* One hell of a night, one brutal morning

* Kevin Hart kills

* Judy Gold and college comedy

* The Washington Post says sorry for being mean to Hamas

* Be brave, get fired?

* There’s been a bunch of recent…

* Voting for New York judges (and do you have a spare apartment?)

* An unsolicited application

* Liz Warren warns about t…

* Happy birthday Kmele

* The girls of the IDF

* The lads take a wrong turn, end up in “Poundtown”

* In fairness, we didn’t know he did a whole segment on this

* So Mike Pence dropped out?

* That’s some …

Along with fellow comedian Ryan Long, Danny Polishchuk is one half of the very funny Boyscast podcast (a favorite of Fi…

* On The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All―But There Is a Solution.

* The youngest Fif’ and Maher guest.

* My how times have changed since 9/11.

* The …

* An idiot…He wrote this

* Condolences to a friend

* What is a war crime?

* History wars and war crimes

* The worst congre…

* Hamas and the hospital

* Don’t trust and try to verify

* Did Israel “create” Hamas?

* When there’s no negotiating partner

* America’s role in the Middle East

* Enter Iran…

* Gauging Palestinian public op…

* Where are you Ben and/or Jerry?

* The radicalization of KF

* What it means to be “anti-war”

* The radicalization of the …