A significant ingredient of President Donald Trump‘s foreign policy during his second term is keeping other nations off balance. Whether allies, enemies, or nations worried about becoming the latter, the collective international inability to predict what Trump will do next anywhere in the world has left many nations wondering whether to extend a presidential invite […]
For years, monetary doves have challenged hawks worried about the dominance of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency, with a very good question: What sovereign currency could replace it? As it turns out, the answer is none of the above. But that doesn’t mean the greenback isn’t being replaced. After the single-worst year […]
Trapped inside our home last week, my family was in search of a “snowy” movie we could watch together. After rejecting Alive, The Empire Strikes Back, and The Shining, we settled on Groundhog Day, which famously features a blizzard trapping Bill Murray’s Phil Connors in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Essays have been written treating Groundhog Day as […]
President Donald Trump called Alex Pretti, the anti-ICE protester who was fatally shot by Border Patrol agents on Saturday in Minneapolis, Minnesota, an “agitator, and perhaps insurrectionist” in a social media post on early Friday morning. The president’s comments come as a new video was released this week showing Pretti acting violently and unruly while […]
FORT MYERS, Florida — The Sunshine State is famously a place where people go for a fresh start. In the political realm, a looming Florida congressional Republican primary is testing the outer boundaries of that adage. The 12 Republican candidates, so far, for Florida’s 19th Congressional District include a pair of former House members from […]
As the snow settles on the great Greenland war that never was, the cracks in the Atlantic alliance widen like melting ice packs in the Arctic spring. The “rules-based international order,” that white whale of the golden age of globalization, is declared dead — if it ever existed in the first place. We hear that […]
Netflix had me just where it wanted me this weekend: home. I was one among likely millions of Americans whose attention was divided between contending with Winter Storm Fern and watching streaming content. Both, in their fashion, constituted “work”: my driveway required regular shoveling if I had any hope of keeping ahead of the snow […]
The newest Game of Thrones spinoff has nothing at all to say about the Wall, the Starks, the Martells, the Tullys, the Dothraki, the Iron Islands, or the North. The only dragon we see is a handsomely constructed puppet, made, if I had to guess, of papier mache. Are we really in Westeros, the site […]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art took an emphatic tone in titling “Revolution!,” an exhibit commemorating a 250th anniversary that I probably need not spell out, and the result is emphatically good. The quality and range of items on display are uniformly high, even if the show is not technically all that large. They are a […]
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem explained the reasoning behind her previous statements regarding the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, in which she referred to him as a “domestic terrorist,” during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. Noem said she relied on the “best information” that was available at the time and […]
