“The evidence is in. The impacts are very real,” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said about the billionaire tax, a ballot initiative state unions are trying to qualify for the November ballot. “It’s really damaging to the state.” Even a Democrat as left-wing as Newsom is aghast at the extremism and the power of Big Labor. […]
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — FBI Director Kash Patel joined a roundtable hosted by Sen. David McCormick (R-PA) earlier this month to discuss the work the Trump administration, Congress, local law enforcement, and area prosecutors have done to curb the fentanyl trade in Pennsylvania over the past 13 months. McCormick led the packed event at the Edward N. […]
Can Democrats out-Christian Republicans in the midterm elections? The party is tightly wedded to progressivism, perhaps even radicalism, on social and cultural issues. White liberals in particular are as secular as ever. As implausible as it may seem, Democrats sense a couple of openings. One is in Texas, where the party has nominated state Rep. […]
Few movies could more perfectly embody our confused, disordered, and finally inconclusive times than The Drama. Pitched to audiences, in trailers and other publicity, as a darkly comic nightmare vision of matrimony — say, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for Generation Z — the movie is actually far more sinister than that. Zendaya stars as […]
An amusing game when watching bad television is to imagine how many performers passed on a role before the actual lead came on board. In the case of Kerry Washington and Apple TV’s Imperfect Women, my guess is that the list stretches to the dozens. Despite her limitations as a screen performer, the one-time star […]
One of the surest signs of the passing of one epoch to another is that ordinary features of the earlier era come to be regarded, in the later era, as quaint or novel. I was reminded of this while watching Alex Ross Perry’s recent documentary Videoheaven, which, using a trove of archival footage, film clips, […]
On the morning of Sept. 26, 1960, a 26-year-old man from the dairy farms of Wisconsin walked up North Michigan Avenue toward Tribune Tower in downtown Chicago. He was about to begin his first day at WGN Radio, one of the most powerful stations in America, and he was terrified. “I walked into the studio, […]
More than two dozen Democrats running in some of the most contested congressional races of 2026 have accepted donations from a wealthy investor with a financial interest in China’s success, public records show. Donald Sussman owns a majority stake in New China Capital Management, a private equity firm with shares in several Chinese companies, according to documents […]
Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a temporary ceasefire to observe Orthodox Easter on April 12. Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to a halt in fighting after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for a temporary truce to allow citizens to participate in the holiday. Putin issued a decree on Thursday recognizing the ceasefire, which is […]
A Pakistani national known as “Shahzeb Jadoon” pleaded guilty to planning a mass shooting at a Jewish center in Brooklyn, New York. The terrorist act was originally planned for Oct. 7, 2024, but was foiled when he was arrested in Canada on Sept. 4, 2024, ahead of trying to enter the United States. His goal […]
