Art historian Nicolas Ballet’s Shock Factory is a book seemingly at odds with its subject, industrial music, at every possible level. This 500-plus-page tome is the very model of professional scholarship. It is the work of years of research, with interviews going as far back as 2014. It weaves in citations across the disciplines: music […]
Midway through The Beast in Me, Netflix’s entertainingly flawed saga of murder and longform journalism, comes a moment guaranteed to make the editors in the audience smile. Nile Jarvis, a menacing real estate developer played by Matthew Rhys, has recently snuck into the home of Aggie Wiggs (Claire Danes), the author writing his profile. Coming […]
The new Gus Van Sant film, Dead Man’s Wire, is the latest entry in what might be called the “crazy people doing crazy things on live TV” genre. This places the movie within the tradition of Dog Day Afternoon or Network, whose lead characters are explicitly or implicitly mad as hell and behave accordingly on TV. […]
In my imagination, the opera is the last bastion of a certain kind of sumptuous formality. White gloves, taffeta gowns, black tie, gem-encrusted lorgnettes: This is what I believe a night at the opera means, and no amount of contact with reality is sufficient to disabuse me. Yet, late last year, perusing Opera Philadelphia’s website […]
Since Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) launched his first gubernatorial bid in 2018, individuals tied to Chinese Communist Party influence operations and employed by Beijing-linked companies have poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the campaign accounts of California Democrats, including to Newsom and his key allies, a Washington Examiner review of federal, state, and municipal […]
The United States officially withdrew from the World Health Organization on Thursday, slightly over a year after President Donald Trump announced his intention to withdraw the U.S. from the WHO via an executive order on the first day of his second term on Jan. 20, 2026. The decision was primarily due to the WHO’s messy […]
President Donald Trump has revoked his invitation to Canada to join the Board of Peace that was established at the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland. Trump made the surprise announcement in a brief “letter” posted on Truth Social late Thursday. “Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is […]
TikTok is moving to spin off its U.S. operations into a separate entity controlled by a group of primarily American investors backed by President Donald Trump, the company announced Thursday. The social media app, known for its short-form video content, will now be owned in the United States by TikTok U.S. Data Security Joint Venture […]
President Donald Trump said on Thursday the U.S. military deployed an “armada” of ships heading toward Iran while promising to release more details on taking over Greenland in the next two weeks. When asked where his administration currently stands with Iran, Trump replied that the United States is demonstrating its military might to deter the […]
EXCLUSIVE — Vice President JD Vance told the Washington Examiner that the public hostility exhibited by European leaders regarding President Donald Trump’s demands for Greenland is simply “posturing,” and that they’ve expressed more “reasonable” responses to the president’s plan in closed-door discussions. The vice president sat with the Washington Examiner for a half-hour interview while flying from Toledo, […]
