A growing sense of dread is spreading through Democratic circles as a rapidly shifting political landscape threatens to complicate the party’s path back to House control in November. Democrats entered the year with momentum after California voters approved Proposition 50, a mid-decade redistricting overhaul that redrew congressional lines to benefit the party through the 2026, […]
Retiring Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) has a warning for the three Democrats fighting to replace him in Michigan’s marquee Senate race: Keep it civil. In an interview with the Washington Examiner, Peters expressed concern that the candidates will get increasingly “chippy” with one another as the primary draws closer. Holding Michigan in the Democratic column is crucial for the party to […]
President Donald Trump is coming under increasing pressure to cut household costs as he seeks to broker a more permanent peace deal with Iran. Six months before November’s midterm elections, nearly two-thirds of polling respondents disapprove of the job Trump is doing regarding the economy, as the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz has […]
When Ben Sasse walked onto the Senate floor in November 2015 to deliver his first speech as a member of the upper chamber, he did something unusual: He had waited a full year to speak. It’s part of a Senate tradition known as the “maiden speech.” A historian by training and a management consulting associate […]
On May 21, Stephen Colbert will host his final episode of The Late Show on CBS, bringing down the curtain not only on his own 11-year run but on the entire Late Show franchise, a CBS institution since David Letterman launched it in 1993. The finale will feature an all-star parade: Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, […]
Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer was forced out of her Cabinet-level post in April by a White House that had grown weary of the scandals surrounding her. The allegations against Chavez-DeRemer included: abuse of office for her and family members’ benefit; drinking on the job; having an affair with a subordinate; taking aides to a […]
President Donald Trump announced the proposed site for the future “National Garden of American Heroes” in Washington, D.C. The president chose West Potomac Park as the site for the upcoming sculpture park honoring great Americans. Trump revealed the location in a Truth Social post aboard Air Force One as he was traveling back to the […]
“Boys will be boys,” the truism has it. For better or worse, British showrunner Jack Thorne has emerged as our foremost expositor of that idea. Thorne’s previous project was an example of “worse.” Adolescence (2025) was the platonic ideal of the wrong story for the moment. Set in present-day Doncaster, the series said nothing at […]
Once every 20 years, Hugh Jackman lends his considerable screen power to the summer’s friendliest murder mystery. In the summer of 2006, Jackson channeled the ruthlessness that surely hides behind every matinee idol as the Tarot Card Killer in Woody Allen’s London-based trifle Scoop, which, despite its grisly premise, was a charmer of a comedy. Now, […]
There are men who build companies, and then there are men who build entire categories of human experience. Ted Turner, who died on May 6 at the age of 87, was decidedly the latter. The founder of CNN and the architect of modern cable television, Turner took a grief-stricken young man’s billboard inheritance and turned […]
