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How Hamas invented a new war crime

The late Elie Wiesel, the famed essayist and survivor of Adolf Hitler’s camps, once described the Holocaust as “an indictment of our present world.” Eight decades later, that verdict was renewed when another group of totalitarian antisemites put on a grotesque display. Hamas, the U.S.-designated terrorist group that rules Gaza, perpetrated the largest slaughter of […]

White Lotus in the jungle

I am a writer in Los Angeles, which is just a sidelong way of saying I still have roommates as I approach 30. I’m lucky in that it’s a largely frictionless affair, though the television is far too communal for someone who watches far too much of it. The other night I was catching up […]

Washington braces for steeper layoffs as agencies submit new DOGE cuts

Federal agencies submitted their plans on Thursday to the Office of Personnel Management for widespread federal worker layoffs, which will soon provide the clearest picture yet of President Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink the U.S. federal government.   Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has pursued a sweeping effort to slash the size of […]

Rundown: The green groups that got the $20 billion in ‘gold bars’ from the EPA

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin’s efforts to cancel $20 billion in climate grants meant to fund clean energy projects in low-income communities have led to litigation and controversy. The grants were issued through the Biden administration’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which was established as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act passed by Democrats […]

Second judge rules against Trump’s federal layoffs, orders administration to rehire fired government workers

The Trump administration suffered a judicial setback on Thursday night regarding the layoffs of federal workers. It was the second such ruling against the Trump administration on the day.  U.S. District Judge James Bredar ruled late Thursday that blocked the administration’s order of mass layoffs of probationary federal workers, multiple sources reported. Bredar’s decision means […]

Pete Rose, banished from baseball over gambling violations, is getting a measure of posthumous redemption through presidential pardon

An enduringly controversial play in Pete Rose’s long, Hall of Fame-caliber Major League Baseball career had a certain Donald Trump quality to it. It’s a baseball-political link between the president and Rose, who died Sept. 30, 2024, at age 83, that, in hindsight, seems obvious. It’s one that became clear as day when Trump, on […]

Pennies, an early Trump second term target, rival marbles and 8-track players as American artifacts

A penny saved is a penny … urned? The possible impending death of the penny has piggy banks, give-a-penny-take-a-penny jars, and manufacturers of coin wrappers a bit nervous. In a move that would put the United States alongside Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, the big deal commonwealth countries, more or less, President Donald Trump said […]

Bong Joon-ho’s disposable humanity

I have seen my share of action movies, monster movies, and, to my chagrin, horror movies, but seldom have I seen a movie that treated the human body so callously, so coldly, or so cavalierly as Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17. In his first outing behind the camera since 2019’s Oscar-winning sensation Parasite, Bong has made […]

Vance says EU ‘hammers’ US consumers with tariffs: ‘Going to fight back’

Vice President JD Vance built upon his boss’s pushback to countries in the European Union that have been engaged in back-and-forth tariff threats with President Donald Trump. Trump has doled out tariffs to Canada, Mexico, and China during his second administration and has threatened to enact levies against the EU as well, largely in retaliation […]

Alsobrooks attaches DC budget exception to Democrats’ short-term spending proposal

Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) is hoping Democrats can pass a short-term spending proposal with a special amendment meant to protect the budget of Washington, D.C. The Maryland senator is hoping Democrats can push through their own spending bill that helps the city avoid large budget cuts that would also affect neighboring regions. Alsobrooks, who represents […]
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