New York City Mayor Eric Adams has grown increasingly friendly toward President-elect Donald Trump, raising questions about what both men are up to. “I don’t want people talking at each other,” Adams said Tuesday. “I want people to talk to each other. I made it clear that I’m not going to be warring with [the […]
President Joe Biden is facing growing pressure to commute the sentences of the more than three dozen inmates sitting on federal death row before President-elect Donald Trump, a death penalty proponent, enters the White House. Since losing the election, Biden has received an influx of calls from activists pleading with him to grant the commutations, […]
President-elect Donald Trump received the “Patriot of the Year” at the 2024 Fox Nation Patriot Awards on Thursday night. Trump was recognized for his bravery, courage, and leadership during the 2024 presidential campaign, which included multiple assassination attempts and plots against him. The Patriot Awards recognizes “America’s finest patriots, including military veterans, first responders, and […]
In 2018 the journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, a writer at the New Yorker who is particularly adept at using true crime as a vehicle for probing intellectual questions, published Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. The book looked at the ripple effects of a notorious, decades-old crime: the 1972 […]
President-elect Donald Trump announced a flurry of new Cabinet selections on Thursday night, including his choices for his Border Patrol commissioner, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director, and ambassador to China. Trump made six different choices, with the majority geared toward homeland security and immigration. Trump nominated Rodney Scott to be his commissioner of […]
The host of the Call Her Daddy podcast expressed her dismay over a Washington Examiner report on the Kamala Harris campaign spending six figures on building a makeshift set for the show, saying, “It was gorgeous but it wasn’t that nice.” The Washington Examiner previously reported how the Harris campaign blew through more than $1 […]
No living American filmmaker can be plausibly said to have undergone such a profound artistic evolution as Clint Eastwood. From a greenhorn starring in Rawhide to an auteur of international standing in under a dozen years. Nor can any claim a comparable list of outright masterpieces: The Outlaw Josey Wales, Bronco Billy, Bird, the supreme […]
My father died slowly. Fourteen years, from diagnosis to death. Cancer is like that, if you are lucky. Surgery, radiation treatment, and chemotherapy extended both his life and his death. Each interlude of near-normality between treatments had, like the isotopes in the radiation, a half-life. Each time it halved, death came closer to us all. […]
Dune: Prophecy, HBO’s prequel series to the blockbuster films of the same name, opens with a quasi-cryptic epigraph about war set against an abstract, smoky monochrome backdrop — an implicit promise to the viewer that it will deliver more of the awesome, austere sturm-and-drang that made those films the most artistically successful fantasy adaptations since […]
Former President Barack Obama criticized the political “doom loop” created by politicians who portray their opponents as “enemies to be vanquished” just weeks after he warned voters about now President-elect Donald Trump while campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris. During his keynote address Thursday about the importance of pluralism at the Obama Foundation’s third Democracy Forum in […]
