The third round of June Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in four days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or after the 21st of a month will receive this payment on Wednesday, June 24.  The first round went out on June 10 to those born on or […]

Federal Communications Committee Chairman Brendan Carr’s clampdown on TV stations has a surprising antecedent. Sixty-five years ago, another activist FCC chief, Newton N. Minow, also read the riot act to TV networks. Minow, an appointee of President John F. Kennedy, came from a very different political philosophy than Carr, who was selected by President Donald […]

Former U.S. Capitol police officer Harry Dunn is competing with Maryland state Del. Adrian Boafo, the Democratic Party’s favored candidate to succeed retiring Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) in the race for Maryland’s 5th Congressional District. This isn’t the first time Dunn has run for the House. In 2024, he lost to then-Maryland state Sen. Sarah […]

Playwright Peter Shaffer (1926-2016) chased the same idea for 30 years. A mild-mannered, rule-bound protagonist meets a counterpart who is wild at heart. Our hero is at first repelled but soon becomes fascinated, envious, even obsessed. Theatergoers who remember Five Finger Exercise (1958), The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964), Equus (1973), and Lettice and […]