After a busy political season, Budapest’s fashionable downtown is still festooned with posters and banners from the recent mayoral elections. Most of the signs refer to local issues, from building playgrounds to improving public safety, that wouldn’t be out of place in any major European city. Lurking in the background is the reality that Budapest, […]
There’s a line about class that I think about a lot: “There are those who are where they are because they are doing what they are doing, and there are those who are doing what they are doing because they are where they are.” That difference between living wherever your employment takes you and having […]
In the lead-up to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, GOP nominee Donald Trump said he wanted to keep the vice presidential nomination under wraps as long as possible. The attempt on the former president’s life two days before the convention, at a western Pennsylvania rally, likely forced his hand. On the day Trump […]
Republican Gov. Mike DeWine extended Ohio’s first-in-the-nation ballot deadline to allow Democrats until September to nominate their presidential candidate this year, solving a filing date technicality that had seemed to threaten President Joe Biden’s Buckeye State ballot status. Still, Democratic power brokers have proceeded as though the Democratic National Committee has only until Aug. 7 […]
Of all the candidates former President Donald Trump could have chosen to be his vice presidential nominee, there are few more adamant about cutting off further military assistance to Ukraine than Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH). In 2022, while campaigning for his Senate seat with Trump’s blessing, Vance famously told Steve Bannon on his Real America’s […]
How to describe The Bikeriders, the beautifully formless new film by writer-director Jeff Nichols? An acting showcase, the production moves its characters about but offers little in the way of traditional plotting. A marriage story, it nevertheless encompasses the loss of national innocence and the professionalization of American crime. Perhaps the best thing to say […]
MILWAUKEE — The 2024 Republican National Convention ended with staff and volunteers popping balloons in Fiserv Forum in dimmed light after the red, white, and blue earlier showered former President Donald Trump and his family following his nomination acceptance address. Trump’s address, the longest in presidential history, started contemplative after last weekend’s attempt on his […]
MILWAUKEE — Former President Donald Trump finally took the stage at the Republican National Convention Thursday night, speaking publicly for the first time since he nearly fell to a sniper’s bullet at a rally in western Pennsylvania. But Trump wasn’t the only person to speak to GOP delegates at the Fiserv Forum. As they have […]
MILWAUKEE — Despite Eric Trump serving up red meat to former President Donald Trump‘s base during his Republican National Convention address, he has spent the majority of the past week representing his father on major television networks and cable news channels, not just Fox News. The posturing, though not unusual during the 2024 convention, closes […]
Former President Donald Trump credited a chart on illegal immigration levels that was on display at his recent rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, with saving his life after he was shot last Saturday. In a lengthy speech to the Republican National Convention as he accepted the GOP’s nomination Thursday evening, Trump touted that both the chart […]
