The best science fiction is either pure spaceships and aliens escapism or intelligent present-day social commentary viewed through a more pliable lens than that available to Charlotte Bronte or even Tom Wolfe. By virtue of its title, Black Mirror is prevented from being the former, so it must succeed at the latter, which it did […]
Ryan Coogler was born to be interesting, but fate has instead consigned him to importance. After erupting onto the scene in 2013 with Fruitvale Station, Coogler was parachuted into the Rocky franchise to direct Creed, saving the franchise and Sylvester Stallone from self-parody. However, achieving such excellence so soon was the worst possible development of […]
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson indirectly criticized President Donald Trump at a judicial conference in Puerto Rico over his fiery attacks on judges. Jackson, the newest member of the Supreme Court, referred to Trump’s threats directed at judges as “attacks on our democracy.” She did not mention the president directly, though said she was addressing […]
India and Pakistan are sliding toward war. Perhaps we should not be surprised. There has been bad blood between the two kindred nations since they came semi-conjoined into existence in 1947. Indeed, the sanguinary circumstances of their birth defined their future enmity. What with everything else going on, we have been slow to wake up […]
Elon Musk promised that the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts will not stop even as his time in the Trump administration is expected to come to a close at the end of this month. Musk and his DOGE team sat down with Fox News’s Jesse Watters at their headquarters in an interview that aired on […]
President Donald Trump suggested red-state schools such as the University of Alabama should forge America’s future over the more liberal and elite Harvard University during Alabama’s commencement on Thursday. Near the end of his address, Trump made clear he wanted the University of Alabama graduates to write the next chapter of American history over Harvard, […]
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to intervene in a case in which a lower court blocked the Department of Homeland Security from stripping some Venezuelan immigrants of their temporary protected status. Solicitor General John Sauer wrote in an application to the high court that the decision to cancel immigrants’ temporary protected status, known as TPS, involved “particularly […]
Mercedes is set to “localize” a “core segment” vehicle line to its plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, by 2027, the automaker announced Thursday. The German company said it wanted to strengthen “our ties to the North American market” as President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs prompt some companies to relocate to the United States. “We are getting […]
Vice President JD Vance contended that former national security adviser Mike Waltz being nominated to become the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations was a “promotion” and was unrelated to Waltz’s instigation of so-called Signalgate. “He wasn’t let go,” Vance told Fox News on Thursday. “You can make a good argument that it’s a […]
Two major House hearings to look at President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” were delayed after Thursday’s White House meeting. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY) joined Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) for a meeting at […]
