In Death by Lightning, the new Netflix miniseries helmed by Mike Makowsky of Game of Thrones fame, President James Garfield and his assassin, Charles Guiteau, are opposite poles of the national character, forever united through one of those lurid, violent spectacles for which we Americans have such an enormous tendency and talent. In lesser hands […]
As an adolescent with basic cable in the pre-streaming era, I often found myself watching snippets of unidentified films on Turner Classic Movies. Only one has stayed with me: the end of what I would eventually come to learn was the 1948 film Words and Music, a biographical musical about Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. […]
“The Wrong ICE is Melting,” read one sign hoisted in the air by a white woman in a COVID-19 mask on the streets of Los Angeles. “Don’t Let Democracy Go Extinct,” read a poster held in Omaha, Nebraska, by a very serious liberal in an inflatable dinosaur costume. “Free Palestine, Free DC, Free Us All,” […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said Thursday that militants have handed over the body of one of the last four remaining hostages taken during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that launched the war in Gaza. Israel identified the returned body as that of Meny Godard, who was abducted from Kibbutz Be’eri in southern Israel. His wife, […]
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was on Fox and Friends on Thursday morning to promote his new children’s book, Heroes of 1776. During his interview with Fox News’s Lawrence Jones, Gorsuch discussed the contents of his book, detailing the exploits of some lesser-known heroes of the American Revolution. He then pivoted to the importance of […]
The Portland City Council voted against a measure to halt homeless encampment sweeps during a contentious city council meeting, following a week of jabs back and forth between the Portland mayor and the city council member who proposed the cuts. Three hours of public testimony focused on the adverse effects of tent camping in the […]
Verizon will cut about 15,000 employees next week in the largest layoff spree to hit the company since its beginning, according to several reports. The layoffs are part of a cost-saving measure as the company moves to compete with other companies jumping into the home internet service and wireless markets, according to the Wall Street […]
Newly released internal FBI and Justice Department emails show two senior career prosecutors in 2019, during the first Trump administration, repeatedly discouraged an FBI agent from opening a criminal investigation into whether Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee improperly concealed payments that funded the Steele dossier. The records were made public Thursday by Senate […]
Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) and other Democrats claimed that President Donald Trump spent his first Thanksgiving as president with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Among the trove of emails relating to Epstein released by the House Oversight Committee was an exchange with NEXT Model Management founder Faith Kates, during which Epstein claimed Trump […]
(The Center Square) – The race for Michigan’s next secretary of state is already a crowded one on both sides of the aisle. On the Democrat side, Ingham County Clerk Barbara Byrum seems to have the backing of the party establishment. In June, she announced she had received the endorsement of three former Michigan Democratic Party […]
