President Donald Trump’s focus on securing the domestic rare earth minerals market puts the White House in a bind: Does it ignore its promise to deregulate? Trump, shortly after returning to office in January 2025 for his second, nonconsecutive term, invoked the Defense Production Act through several executive orders, citing the Cold War-era law in […]
The year 2025 saw some of the biggest overhauls of the international order in modern history, a process destined to favor some countries and disfavor others. President Donald Trump spent the first year of his second administration upending the existing world order, shifting alliances and power dynamics across the globe. Nearly all of the winners […]
President Donald Trump warned Iran early Friday morning that its government would face consequences if any people protesting against Iran’s government were harmed. Trump issued the warning to the Iranian government on his Truth Social account at 2:58 a.m. on Friday. He said the U.S. was “locked and loaded and ready to go” if Iran […]
“In the Middle East,” the Israeli general and politician Ehud Barak once said, “a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience.” Barak would know. He was Israel’s prime minister in 2000, a year that forever altered both Israel and the region. Indeed, much of the current divide between Israel and the rest of the West […]
History will be against President Donald Trump when he tries to hold on to his control of Congress after this year’s midterm elections. From pressuring state Republicans to redraw their congressional districts to create more GOP-leaning seats in the House to underscoring his policy and political wins on the campaign trail and in prime-time TV […]
For the overwhelming majority of people whose families, jobs, and personal pursuits loom larger than the endless mergers and acquisitions in Hollywood, the hue and cry over Netflix’s plans to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery is likely to elicit not much more than a shrug. To most ordinary, well-adjusted people, the ownership of a movie studio […]
Stranger Things was never meant to end like this, largely because it was never meant to go on the way it has. The first season was conceived and written as a limited series, with the possibility of succeeding other, entirely different seasons, similar to True Detective or American Horror Story. Someone at Netflix decided during filming that […]
The beauty of Physical: Asia, a televised sporting event-cum-reality show that originated in Korea before spinning off to this international franchise, is that it cannot be gamed. Most sports today, after all, are all about the numbers. You can see it in the way people watch sports now, eyes on their second screens, checking lines […]
The new year began with another day of decreases at the pumps as the national average price for regular gasoline dropped to $2.833 per gallon. The latest price marked a decrease of 23 cents per gallon compared to New Year’s Day in 2025, according to AAA, when Joe Biden was president of the United States. […]
President Donald Trump’s boast about ending the Israel-Hamas war was a bit premature. Trump, on Oct. 13, addressed the Knesset in Jerusalem. The speech to the Israeli legislature marked the implementation of a landmark ceasefire and hostage deal in the Gaza Strip that the Trump administration helped negotiate, a bit over two years after the […]
