With primary provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act set to expire come 2025, either President Joe Biden or President Donald Trump will face a showdown in Congress to extend the tax cuts or let them die. But the former president has reportedly teased a plan to entirely sidestep this dilemma over his […]
Former Kentucky sheriff’s deputy Tanner M. Abbott was found guilty in March of violating the constitutional rights of several people he arrested while working as a police officer in the Bluegrass State. On Thursday, he was sentenced to 110 months in prison. Abbot, 31, was convicted on five felonies and one misdemeanor charge for incidents […]
Senate Democrats facing tough reelections this November are struggling to take a side on whether women should be required to register for the military draft. The controversial provision was included by Democrats in the annual defense bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, which was recently advanced by the Senate Armed Services Committee. Several […]
The Biden administration on Friday announced a new $860 million grant program to reduce methane emissions within the oil and gas sector, the latest in the administration’s push to curb emissions of the greenhouse gas, which is 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide. The grant funding will be available to a broad range of […]
Patagonia’s private foundation, which is under fire due to a Washington Examiner report on its funding of a Palestinian terrorism-linked group, directed millions of dollars to a left-wing dark money network behind pro-Hamas activism across the United States. Over the last decade, Patagonia’s foundation in California has sent more than $17 million combined to the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center, a pair of affiliated nonprofit groups […]
We are for the most part not blessed to live in the era of giants. The greatest of all times in their fields — Michelangelo in sculpture, Shakespeare in drama, Homer (or Dante) in poetry, Raphael in painting, Beethoven in music — all lived hundreds (and in some cases thousands) of years ago. Long gone […]
Democrats are bringing an 1873 law that bans the mailing of abortion-related materials into the spotlight as the party makes access to the procedure central to their election messaging. The Comstock Act was enacted to ban people from sending anything “obscene, lewd or lascivious” in the mail, including “any article or thing designed or intended […]
It may also come as a surprise to the relatives, friends, and roommates whom I’ve forced to watch the Tony Awards over the years that this year I didn’t watch until this magazine’s editor asked me to write about the awards show. But while I remain as steadfast a theater lover as ever, I just […]
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon lost an emergency appeal to delay his July 1 prison sentence. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 against Bannon, with Judge Justin Walker, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, dissenting. Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison in October 2022 after defying a congressional subpoena […]
What do you call unscripted TV featuring lunatics — when you’re not calling it “C-SPAN,” that is? If the phrase “reality television” comes to mind, dismiss it as insufficient right away. Abandon, too, the staid moniker “docuseries.” HBO’s Ren Faire, available now in its full, three-episode glory, is too unruly a beast for such a […]
