Former President Joe Biden isn’t exactly a beloved figure among Democratic Party members these days. Many blame him for the return of President Donald Trump to the White House in 2024, after beating the Republican incumbent four years earlier. The politically vicious downward spiral for Democrats had begun with Biden’s disastrous June 2024 debate performance […]
An incumbent California House Republican is likely to win a newly drawn district in a swath of suburbs, exurbs, and desert areas east of Los Angeles. But it would still be a net loss for House Republicans because the lawmaker-on-lawmaker race means one of them will be out of a job after the November elections. […]
By 2009, the National Alliance had become “almost irrelevant,” in the words of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Material released by the SPLC in subsequent years detailed further decline at the West Virginia-based white nationalist organization, fueled by infighting and financial woes. As of 2016, the National Alliance had just a few dozen members, down […]
The United States and Taiwan are raising alarm over China’s capacity to disrupt international diplomacy after Beijing-aligned client states decided to keep Taiwan’s president out of Africa. President William Lai was blocked from travelling to Eswatini this week after China allegedly pressured three African nations — Mauritius, Madagascar, and Seychelles — to deny airspace access […]
Maybe you have no interest in sitting in a bar with a bunch of strangers, drinking a beer, and bonding over a national sporting event. And that is fine. It is a free country. Sports bars aren’t for everyone. But for millions of Americans, that feeling of community, of coming together to share something historic, […]
Rahm Emanuel has a habit of being right about things Democrats do not want to hear. As Bill Clinton‘s senior policy adviser, as Barack Obama‘s chief of staff, as mayor of Chicago, he operated with a bluntness that made him enemies in both parties. So when he sat down on the Reason podcast “The Fifth […]
She was finally going to run. After half a decade and repeated attempts by party leaders to recruit her, Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) was ready to challenge a political titan of West Virginia for his long-held Senate seat. “In 2012, I decided I was ready to go up or out,” Capito said in an interview. […]
Twenty-eight-year-old Elle Fanning has been nominated for an Academy Award (Sentimental Value) and a Primetime Emmy (The Great) and has co-headlined a Disney flick that grossed three-quarters of a billion dollars (Maleficent). Yet, the role with which I instinctively associate her is her work as a backyard film “star” in J.J. Abrams’s 2011 thriller, Super […]
There have been some great films about painters — say, the documentary The Mystery of Picasso (1956) or Robert Altman’s entry in the Van Gogh biopic subgenre, Vincent & Theo (1990) — but by and large, the excitement of watching someone apply paint onto a canvas is more theoretical than actual. It is not for […]
Dating culture in the first quarter of the 21st century is more about the journey than the destination. So long, of course, as someone else is behind the wheel. Whether it’s a road trip that veers off into a chainsaw-dense no man’s land or just a demolition derby, the entertainment value increases with the chaos, […]
