In a geopolitical climate dominated by creeping great-power competition, calls for renewed diplomacy sound misguided. Efforts at peace in Gaza and Ukraine have hitherto fallen on deaf ears as the prospect of negotiations drifts further away amid a current of chaos. Is this the new normal? Is it possible to broker peace when the U.S. […]
Bob Kelley, who reimagined his family’s Kelley Blue Book first as a nationwide source of information and then again as a pillar of the early consumer-oriented World Wide Web, died at his home in Indian Wells, California, on May 28. He was 96 years old. Born to a Los Angeles Ford dealer family in 1927, […]
Italian American actor Tony Lo Bianco died on Tuesday after a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 87. Lo Bianco was best known for his role as mobster Salvatore “Sal” Boca in the 1971 film The French Connection. The movie is recognized for featuring one of the most extraordinary car chase scenes in cinematic […]
Next month, NATO’s most senior officials and prominent practitioners will convene in Washington, D.C. The timing is critical. The alliance has been around for 75 years, and the threats to it have gone through major changes. During the last three years, especially, Russia and China have been increasingly aggressive in their efforts to undermine U.S. […]
Former President Donald Trump dropped another hint at who his running mate may be after meeting with Republican lawmakers in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. For months, the former president has been teasing who his running mate will be. Trump, speaking with Fox News’s Aishah Hasnie on Thursday, suggested that his pick for vice president was […]
Director Richard Linklater thrives at documenting the offbeat and odd, and his new movie Hit Man is no exception. A twisted rom-com about what happens when you’re too good at pretending to be someone else, the film is loosely based on the true story of a Houston psychology teacher who pretended to be a contract […]
After Lafayette Square outside the White House was trashed by pro-Palestinian protesters over the weekend, one Republican senator wants to throw the book at criminals damaging property. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) unveiled a bill on Thursday, titled the Saving Treasured Artifacts Through Uniformed Enforcement Act, aimed at increasing minimum penalties for property damage, after the […]
No one is likely to accuse Netflix’s new limited series Eric of a lack of ambition. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and created by British playwright and TV veteran Abi Morgan (River, The Split), it fairly crackles with aspirational energy. The problem is the series’s utter inability to find a coherent tone. Imagine Mrs. Doubtfire embroiled in […]
NORWICH, United Kingdom — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has declared a general election to be held on July 4. On May 22, a wet Wednesday afternoon, Sunak stood by himself at a lectern and revealed the date while addressing the country outside Downing Street. The Labour Party anthem, “Things Can Only Get Better,” erupted […]
President Joe Biden released a second campaign ad featuring the woman who was denied an abortion in Texas, only this time with a focus on in vitro fertilization. Amanda Zurawski was at the head of the case Zurawski v. State of Texas, where she was one of 20 women claiming she was denied an abortion despite pregnancy […]
