The summer before I went to college, a much-admired older boy loaned me a copy of Scorsese on Scorsese, a book-length interview concerning Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and other pictures from the director’s early oeuvre. I had seen none of those movies. Yet, the volume was a revelation, not only because of its […]
“Don’t take drugs!” Frances McDormand’s character in Almost Famous hollers after she has deposited her son, 15-year-old aspiring rock writer William Miller (Patrick Fugit), at a raucous concert in Southern California in the early 1970s. Perhaps you had to have been a member of the Just Say No club at a tiny suburban private school […]
“Antisemitism,” the German writer August Bebel remarked more than a century ago, “is the socialism of fools.” Recent events prove as much. For many on the global Left, antisemitism, dressed up in moral righteousness, has become the latest pet cause. And regrettably, once venerable institutions are now mainstreaming it for the broader public. On Aug. […]
President Donald Trump has grown weary of Democrats’ efforts to prolong the government shutdown. He has called on Republican senators to use the “nuclear option” to end it. In two posts to his Truth Social account late Thursday night, the president urged Republicans to end the filibuster in order to end the shutdown. In his […]
Money has shaped the justice system for centuries through common law tort principles that balance financial restitution with moral accountability. But over several decades, that balance has collapsed. Wall Street and other big investors are now allying themselves with trial attorneys to take stakes in litigation outcomes. They have entered the courtroom through third-party litigation […]
With off-year election states hitting the voting booths on Tuesday, Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey have been hammering home a platform based on affordability messaging in the final stretch. Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin emphasized Thursday how the two Democratic gubernatorial candidates running in 2025, former Rep. Abigail Spanberger and Rep. Mikie Sherrill […]
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump held a Halloween event Thursday evening, handing out chocolate bars to trick-or-treaters at the White House. The event on the South Lawn featured music from the Air Force Strolling Strings band, apples grown in Washington and New York states, and candy from the National Confectioners Association. The […]
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) hit the campaign trail with former Rep. Abigail Spanberger in the final days of the gubernatorial race against Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears to urge Latino voters to back Spanberger at the ballot. At a “Latinos for Spanberger” event on Thursday afternoon, hosted at Los Tios Grill, Gallego, a rising star […]
The Department of Justice is conducting an investigation into Black Lives Matter, probing how the organization handled millions of dollars in donations amid the 2020 protests following the murder of George Floyd, according to multiple reports. Federal investigators have issued subpoenas and executed a search warrant in their investigation into the anti-racism organization and whether […]
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said Thursday he was secretly targeted in a Biden-era Justice Department investigation tied to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, calling the effort a “witch hunt” aimed at undermining Republicans in Congress and President Donald Trump. Scott said he learned of the subpoena only this week from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who […]
