In the 10 months since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has forcibly deported half a million illegal immigrants and compelled another 1.6 million to voluntarily self-deport. And thanks to his crackdown on unfettered student visas and low-skilled J-1 visas, the total temporary “nonimmigrant” population in the country is expected to fall by […]

In Death by Lightning, the new Netflix miniseries helmed by Mike Makowsky of Game of Thrones fame, President James Garfield and his assassin, Charles Guiteau, are opposite poles of the national character, forever united through one of those lurid, violent spectacles for which we Americans have such an enormous tendency and talent. In lesser hands […]

As an adolescent with basic cable in the pre-streaming era, I often found myself watching snippets of unidentified films on Turner Classic Movies. Only one has stayed with me: the end of what I would eventually come to learn was the 1948 film Words and Music, a biographical musical about Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. […]

“The Wrong ICE is Melting,” read one sign hoisted in the air by a white woman in a COVID-19 mask on the streets of Los Angeles. “Don’t Let Democracy Go Extinct,” read a poster held in Omaha, Nebraska, by a very serious liberal in an inflatable dinosaur costume. “Free Palestine, Free DC, Free Us All,” […]