The average person would be forgiven for thinking Congress is completely bungling budgeting. The national debt is on a path to soar to $37 trillion by the end of the year. Legislators have failed to enact the 12 government spending bills. They have spent September feuding over whether to enact a continuing resolution to keep […]
As the 2024 presidential election approaches, the rival campaigns have promised to “lower costs” on healthcare for people living in the United States. Unfortunately, whether the winner after Nov. 5 is Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, or former President Donald Trump, the Republican standard-bearer, people will have to wait for their healthcare costs […]
Few directors have a more legendary filmography than Francis Ford Coppola, the mind behind The Godfather trilogy, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now. But Megalopolis, hitting cinemas this weekend, is the most ambitious project of his career. For Coppola, Megalopolis isn’t just another film. Self-financed at a cost of $120 million, it’s a culmination of his […]
JERUSALEM — Soon after the body of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an American Israeli held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, was identified on Aug. 31, along with the remains of five other Israeli hostages, Vice President Kamala Harris offered condolences to his parents, Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin. Hersh’s parents, who 10 days earlier pleaded for the […]
After an all-out fight against inflation over the past two years, the Federal Reserve recently voted to lower interest rates by a half percentage point. The Sept. 18 move by the central bank was bolder than many investors expected. The Fed’s first rate cut since the world collapsed in March 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic […]
A border congressman is preparing legislation to crack down on criminal rings responsible for large-scale oil and gasoline theft across the Permian Basin in West Texas. Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) plans to introduce a bill in the next few days that is one step in a long-term effort to go after the organized crime networks […]
The mayoralty of New York City is well known for being a dead-end job. No mayor has ever gone on to higher office, though many of them have tried, in over 100 years. The last one, Ardolph Loges Kline, was briefly acting mayor in 1913, after the death of Mayor William Jay Gaynor, and went […]
Twenty-five years ago, Aaron Sorkin and a cast and writers room of true-believing Clinton-era Democrats set out to create a technocratic fairy tale in which progressive values win the day by sheer virtue of their irresistibility. What happened next is enough to defy belief. Despite themselves, they made a masterpiece. Whatever its ratings success, there […]
Michael Jackson’s premature death in 2009 at the age of 50 shocked the world. Beloved by millions and maybe even billions of fans, Jackson had first risen to fame as part of the Jackson 5, the late ‘60s-early ‘70s pop group that captured ears and hearts across the country and whose story was told in […]
A weirdly common conspiracy theory on the Left holds that Republicans secretly believe massive government spending is great for the economy and that Republicans only resist Democratic overspending because they want to sabotage the economy. Like most conspiracy theories, there is a fact pattern that makes this one convincing to those who want to believe: […]
