The first 2024 presidential debate generated days of headlines about President Joe Biden‘s health and former President Donald Trump‘s loose way with words. But the debate came just days after a government agency announced that $1.9 trillion would be added to the national debt this year alone — and that the ratio of debt to […]
It isn’t often that a critic gets to tackle three seasons of a television comedy at once. Still less frequently may he do so after binging the whole gut-busting run-in-progress in a matter of days. Yet here I am, fresh from 27 episodes of HBO’s hilarious, wise, and, yes, generous series Hacks. If the following […]
As a Midwestern suburban kid born during the Reagan administration, I grew up with no direct contact with cowboys, covered wagons, or the open trail. The only horses I ever came into close contact with were the coin-operated mechanical ones installed outside of supermarkets. In all the ways that matter, I am pure greenhorn. Nonetheless, […]
The Supreme Court moved into the online era this term by deciding two cases that will have implications for free speech on social media. In one, the court ruled unanimously to send the combined NetChoice v. Paxton and Moody v. NetChoice back down to the respective federal circuit courts that came to opposite conclusions on […]
The House Freedom Caucus is having a moment, though not necessarily the one its members, some of the chamber’s most conservative Republican lawmakers, envisioned as they steered the loose-knit and secretive group for nearly a decade now. Home to some of the loudest and most rebellious rabble-rousers in Congress, the tough-as-nails attitudes and willingness to […]
“That’s the smarter thing to do. I’m going to do the dumb thing, and I’m committing to it,” YouTube mini-golf star Brooks Holt declared on the 15th hole of the Bear Rock Junction mini-golf course in New Tripoli, Pennsylvania. His co-host, opponent, and long-term girlfriend, Elisha Helton, had laid up a shot on that hole […]
The fallout from President Joe Biden‘s disastrous debate performance surprisingly did not include a complete shutdown of incoming donations to Biden’s campaign. But after two weeks, and one particularly weighty op-ed later, that appears to be changing. Multiple senior Democratic operatives tell the Washington Examiner that outstanding questions about Biden’s election viability have paused efforts […]
The past several months have provided much fuel for political fears both at home and abroad. But there is one worrisome political development in particular that has received too little attention: Are we in danger of a protest song revival? In May, for instance, the rapper Macklemore released “Hind’s Hall,” a song about the pro-Palestinian […]
Labour’s Keir Starmer has won the British election, raising questions about the next chapter in the “special relationship” between the United States and the United Kingdom. For all the talk of these ties between British prime ministers and American presidents, the truth is, it’s a pretty recent invention. Throughout America’s first century, England was seen […]
Two nations, both alike in indignity, in troubled Europe where we lay our scene. In Britain and then France, an unpopular leader called snap elections for reasons no one could quite understand. He then lost as everyone predicted, though not in the way that everyone expected. In Britain’s general elections on July 4, Rishi Sunak […]
