Senators who were once governors often highlight their accomplishments in their previous roles. Wistful tales of trade missions abroad to drum up business for their states and enacting legislation on a bipartisan basis pepper Senate floor speeches, stray comments to reporters, and other remarks. It’s often a direct reaction against Congress’s accelerating slide into irrelevance, […]
“Artificial intelligence” is a tech fantasist’s dream bubble, but let’s play along. Suppose tomorrow’s robots have human intelligence, self-directedness, and skill. Won’t they have our laziness, as well? Murderbot, the latest science-fiction series from Apple TV+, attempts to answer precisely that question. The popular fear is of machines that slay us in our beds. Apple’s […]
In the 27 years since Wes Anderson made Rushmore, his movies have only become more deliriously decorative and ostentatiously ornamental. Among the things audiences will encounter in Anderson’s new movie, The Phoenician Scheme, are shoeboxes containing business plans, multiple rosaries, assorted assassins or would-be assassins, a diplomatic pouch holding handkerchiefs and other valuables, a fruit […]
Amid the recent spate of revivals of British pop and rock music from the 1990s, including Blur’s 2023 album The Ballad of Darren and Oasis’s promised, or threatened, visit to North America’s stadia this summer, the return of the Sheffield act Pulp is the most unexpected and, therefore, the most welcome. When Jarvis Cocker’s troupe […]
Pope Francis, who died in April at age 88, was sometimes scathing in his criticism of President Donald Trump. In 2016, when Trump first ran for president, Francis said dismissively that someone “who thinks only about building walls” and not bridges is quite simply “not Christian.” As Trump’s second, nonconsecutive term got underway, Francis described […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Thursday to strike all of Iran’s nuclear facilities and claimed his country is “ahead of schedule” in its military operations against Iran. Netanyahu made the comments during an interview with local media, during which he gave updates on the progress of Israel’s recent military campaigns. He highlighted how […]
Negotiations are underway between the United States and the European Union over a new trade deal; both sides publicly hope it will end their trade war. Officials on both sides have expressed confidence that a deal will be reached before the July 9 deadline invoked by President Donald Trump, which will trigger a tariff hike […]
A three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that President Donald Trump can keep control of the California National Guard members he deployed to Los Angeles following anti-ICE protests in the city. “Affording appropriate deference to the President’s determination, we conclude that he likely acted within his authority in federalizing the […]
Former President Joe Biden traveled to Galveston, Texas, on Thursday to celebrate Juneteenth, a federal holiday he enshrined with a stroke of a pen while in office, and took a handful of shots at President Donald Trump. Biden has largely stayed out of the limelight since leaving office in January and announcing his advanced cancer […]
Iran‘s foreign minister will meet with European leaders in Geneva on Friday as President Donald Trump mulls whether to involve American forces in Israel’s conflict against Iran. Europe has had a more passive posture than America on diplomacy with Iran, which is sending Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to Switzerland for Friday’s meeting. Trump has openly […]
