Sticky inflation and rising unemployment have raised concerns that stagflation could return. And that could be a problem for President Donald Trump, who regained the White House in the 2024 election on a platform of lower prices and broad prosperity. “It’s the worst of both worlds where you have higher prices and lower growth,” said […]
In Whose Name?, the limited-release documentary painfully and explicitly documenting the implosion of the artist once known as Kanye West, almost didn’t make it to theaters. Nor to any screen for that matter. After a bout of public antisemitism in 2022 in which the rapper-mogul-producer-aesthete now known solely as Ye threatened to go “death con […]
More than a week into the first government shutdown in nearly seven years, congressional Democrats are showing no signs of backing the GOP’s proposed clean continuing resolution that would maintain federal spending at the sky-high levels of former President Joe Biden‘s presidency. Nor do they seem willing to admit why they’re holding some 900,000 federal […]
New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli announced he would file a lawsuit against Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ), his opponent in the upcoming election, for comments she made about him during Wednesday’s gubernatorial debate. Sherrill claimed during the debate, without evidence, that Ciattarelli was responsible for the deaths of thousands of adults and children while […]
Former Vice President Kamala Harris criticized President Donald Trump and urged Democrats to reclaim Congress during the Washington, D.C., stop of her 107 Days book tour Thursday. The event was scheduled to start at 7 p.m., and the line to enter snaked around the block ahead of doors opening at 6 p.m., causing long wait […]
In the time between the release of Midnights, her October 2022 mega-blockbuster, and Dec. 8, 2024, when the “Eras Tour” closed in Vancouver, Taylor Swift achieved a level of success beyond what nearly any sane human mind could process. Just as anyone with a normative experience of reality cannot not know what it’s like to […]
When screenwriter, playwright, television scenarist, and denouncer of leftist pieties and prejudices Paddy Chayefsky wrote the movie Network in 1976, he made television seem awfully small. Here was a film, released by that most forward-looking of studios, United Artists, with A-list movie stars (Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall) and several bona fide screen legends (William Holden, […]
House Oversight Committee ranking member Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) urged committee chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) to “immediately” schedule Ghislaine Maxwell‘s deposition in a Thursday letter. The news of the letter comes days after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Maxwell, the former girlfriend of convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, on wether she […]
The Israeli Cabinet has approved President Donald Trump‘s plan for a ceasefire deal in Gaza and the release of all the Israeli hostages held by Hamas. “The government has just now approved the framework for the release of all of the hostages — the living and the deceased,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office wrote […]
In a rare note of bipartisanship that defied shutdown drama, the Senate passed its annual defense bill Thursday after a voting marathon that became a referendum on Donald Trump’s authority as president. It took weeks and a series of symbolic concessions to Democrats to jump-start the National Defense Authorization Act, which sets the Pentagon’s policy […]
