Rahm Emanuel has a habit of being right about things Democrats do not want to hear. As Bill Clinton‘s senior policy adviser, as Barack Obama‘s chief of staff, as mayor of Chicago, he operated with a bluntness that made him enemies in both parties. So when he sat down on the Reason podcast “The Fifth […]
She was finally going to run. After half a decade and repeated attempts by party leaders to recruit her, Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) was ready to challenge a political titan of West Virginia for his long-held Senate seat. “In 2012, I decided I was ready to go up or out,” Capito said in an interview. […]
Twenty-eight-year-old Elle Fanning has been nominated for an Academy Award (Sentimental Value) and a Primetime Emmy (The Great) and has co-headlined a Disney flick that grossed three-quarters of a billion dollars (Maleficent). Yet, the role with which I instinctively associate her is her work as a backyard film “star” in J.J. Abrams’s 2011 thriller, Super […]
There have been some great films about painters — say, the documentary The Mystery of Picasso (1956) or Robert Altman’s entry in the Van Gogh biopic subgenre, Vincent & Theo (1990) — but by and large, the excitement of watching someone apply paint onto a canvas is more theoretical than actual. It is not for […]
Dating culture in the first quarter of the 21st century is more about the journey than the destination. So long, of course, as someone else is behind the wheel. Whether it’s a road trip that veers off into a chainsaw-dense no man’s land or just a demolition derby, the entertainment value increases with the chaos, […]
There was a time when a Supreme Court justice could be a fairly obscure figure. Known in Washington, maybe, and recognized within the legal profession, but nothing like the celebrities that make up the elected branches of government. That was the state of affairs when Justice Samuel Alito began his career, and one that likely […]
Congressional lawmakers are discussing ways to reform internal ethics procedures or investigating misconduct by members, after three lawmakers resigned in April alone for alleged bad behavior. The challenging part, however, will be deciding which reforms to chase. Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA), a member of the House Ethics Committee, told the Washington Examiner that the panel […]
President Donald Trump complained that the world was becoming a “casino” after a U.S. soldier was charged with allegedly using classified information to make over $400,000 on the operation to capture former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. Speaking with reporters at the Oval Office about insider trading in prediction markets, a journalist asked the president whether […]
The Justice Department is pursuing an aggressive effort to strip U.S. citizenship from individuals accused of obtaining it through fraud, marking what officials describe as a historic escalation under the Trump administration’s acting attorney general, Todd Blanche. The push is part of a broader strategy to expand denaturalization enforcement dramatically by shifting cases away from […]
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended President Donald Trump’s previous claims that he had brought drug prices down by hundreds of percentage points, but his explanation only added to the confusion. Trump has routinely boasted that his policies have sent drug prices plummeting by a massive margin, sometimes claiming they’ve dropped […]
