In 1997, German electronic music artist Christoph De Babalon released an angry, clanking album dubbed If You’re Into It, I’m Out Of It. It sometimes seems as if that moniker is the best, most concise way of describing the current era’s partisan politics. It’s a situation embodied by protectionist President Donald Trump. And Vice President […]

The new PBS Masterpiece series Marble Hall Murders is a sumptuously filmed “cozy” with an unthreatening structural complexity. The Viking Cruises crowd will eat it up with a Christofle spoon.  Like its predecessors, Magpie Murders (2022) and Moonflower Murders (2024), the new show is based on a book by Anthony Horowitz, who returns here as […]

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) acknowledges that one of the most persistent criticisms of his state — its housing and homelessness crisis — has merit. Newsom, in a wide-ranging interview with the Washington Examiner, called housing California’s “original sin,” arguing that decades of restrictive development policies drove up costs, pushed working families […]

The second round of September Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in four days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born between the 11th and 20th of a month will receive this payment Wednesday, Sept. 16. The first round went out on Sept. 9 to those born between the 1st […]