For the first time all week, the average price for a gallon of regular gas in the country decreased on Friday. The new price is $3.209, a very slight drop from Thursday’s price of $3.212. The cost of gas had increased four straight days prior to the release of Friday’s pricing. Gas prices are a […]
Every big campaign event playing out across the United States this election season has its essential ingredients. There’s the chanting crowd, the patriotic festoonery, the smiling candidate, the platitude-stuffed stump speech, and the stirring popular song to start the party. The process of how those songs are chosen, what effect they have, and how they’re […]
Vice President Kamala Harris’s historical fundraising haul hasn’t been enough to take down former President Donald Trump, leaving Democrats wondering what, if anything, will. Harris has reportedly raised $1 billion in roughly two-and-a-half months, a pace that surpasses any other presidential candidate in modern history. 2024 ELECTIONS LIVE UPDATES: LATEST NEWS ON THE TRUMP-HARRIS PRESIDENTIAL […]
States in play for both candidates in this year’s presidential election all allow voters to cast their ballots by mail, a process that has attracted controversies and legal battles in the final weeks of campaigning. That includes Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Carolina — each of which has seen concerns raised over absentee ballots. These swing states see varying […]
Perhaps no state in the country had Republican candidates do better in 2022 than Iowa. The GOP won up and down the ballot. For the first time since the Eisenhower administration, there wasn’t a single elected Democrat at the federal level. Iowa, which had once been the quintessential swing state, seemed on the verge of […]
KENNETT SQUARE, Pennsylvania — On a recent bustling Saturday night, cars parked in an upscale shopping center of this Philadelphia suburb included a healthy minority of license plates from neighboring Delaware. During President Joe Biden’s 36-year Senate career representing Delaware, he and his family were among these types of frequent, and barely, out-of-state visitors. After […]
House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) is a big fan of former President Donald Trump’s endorsement of a so-called government efficiency commission. Arrington, who has been in office since 2017 and represents a rural west Texas district, spoke to the Washington Examiner about the proposed reform, which aims to cut down on wasteful federal […]
In 1993, Quentin Tarantino’s dreams broke containment. They had previously been kept inside his skull, but they now began to leak into the world and become part of the shared reality you and I and everyone who takes part in our culture experiences. The first sign was when his buddy called him in a happy […]
David Fincher’s subversive comedy-drama Fight Club turns 25 this year. Its blackly comic exploration of toxic masculinity, released when Andrew Tate was still an impressionable 12-year-old, continues to divide opinion. It was gloriously misunderstood upon its initial release in the United States in October 1999 — Roger Ebert wrote of Fight Club that it was […]
Despite concerns about the potential for Supreme Court intervention in fights related to the 2024 election, some experts say recent signs suggest the nine justices may stay out of the equation. The relatively low number of Supreme Court cases the justices have agreed to take on so far this term has led legal observers to […]
