Since its cinematic release on May 23, 1980, Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece The Shining has terrified and perplexed audiences in equal measure. While the Stephen King novel it is based on is a classic example of what George Orwell called a “good bad book” — in other words, a superbly executed potboiler that has no […]

Caffery Bone, the literary editor of a London periodical, receives an invitation to stay at the mansion of the publication’s proprietor. It doesn’t bode well. Bone is painfully aware that Lord Ower has a track record of hosting those he wants to fire. He casts his mind back to three previous employees who had their […]

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Thursday that the Democratic Party has trouble making the case that President Donald Trump is corrupt because of the past abuses within its ranks. “When we talk about Trump’s corruption, we’re not terribly credible because the American public looks at Democrats and assumes that we’re just as corrupt,” Murphy said […]

Vice President JD Vance stepped up in support of President Donald Trump as the president feuds with former close adviser Elon Musk. Vance largely took a back seat during the quarrel, which resulted in the pair lobbing threats at each other like Trump revoking government contracts for SpaceX or Musk decommissioning the Dragon spacecraft. “President […]