Former members of Congress generally emphasize their bipartisan credentials. Instead of discussing pitched battles of years past pitting Democrats against Republicans and vice versa, they’re prone to reminisce instead about legislation they sponsored, foreign travel with lawmakers from the opposition party, and other efforts to work across the aisle. But ask any House Republican who […]
Does Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s long-standing love affair with China let him critique its government’s mistreatment of its people — yet facilitate its mistreatment of ours? Since Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, picked Walz as her running mate, his relationship with the self-dubbed “Middle Kingdom” has come under fevered, febrile, […]
Former President Donald Trump‘s and Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign strategies in seven battleground states have vastly differed as Democrats have increased get-out-the-vote resources, while the GOP outsources those initiatives and instead relies on poll-watching initiatives. With just a little over 80 days left until Election Day, the Trump campaign is ceding door-knocking and canvassing […]
When voters in battleground states turn on their televisions, they’re likely to see Vice President Kamala Harris mentioned multiple times during commercial breaks as both campaigns and their allies release a deluge of ads in support of and against the new Democratic presidential nominee. After a campaign reset in which President Joe Biden dropped out […]
A study of drinking in the United Kingdom by researchers in Spain and Boston is being used by public health officials to call for action by governments, from taxation to advocacy to enforcement, that would lead to less alcohol consumption. “This cohort study in 135,103 older drinkers found that even low-risk drinking was associated with […]
Here’s my synopsis for The Instigators, Apple TV+’s messy straight-to-streamer led by Matt Damon and Casey Affleck: After botching an election-night robbery, two dim-but-affable Boston bros (and one of their shrinks) outrun the police as they bicker like they’re in couples therapy. It’s a heist movie on a psychiatrist’s couch. It’s a parody of a […]
Vice President Kamala Harris appears to have inherited President Joe Biden‘s polling advantage among seniors despite former President Donald Trump‘s appeals to the demographic and past performance. While much has been made of the enthusiasm for Harris among Generation Z voters, memes and all, seniors have traditionally been a more reliable voting group, and Trump […]
There’s at least one thing Republican and Democratic campaigns both have apparent affinities for: altering news headlines to try and score points with voters. The campaigns of several Republican elected officials and a former GOP lawmaker have previously manipulated news headlines and article descriptions in Google Search ads to target voters, the Washington Examiner has […]
What must David Mamet think of The Decameron, Netflix’s laughless comedy of medieval prurience and plague? In the 1990s, long before his turn as a conservative provocateur, the dramatist was famous in iconoclastic circles for his condemnation of modern acting, with its endless “funny voices.” Yet strained artificiality is the new production’s primary mode, not […]
Multiple defendants from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol who faced charges for obstructing Congress are seeing those charges dropped, according to a Washington Examiner review of court records, after the Supreme Court ruled that the Justice Department had applied the charge too broadly. In the case known as Fischer v. United […]
