A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s plans to begin construction on a massive triumphal arch near Washington, D.C., hours after a federal planning commission approved a controversial project. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, issued a 14-day temporary restraining order late Thursday, preventing the administration from […]

Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) should have listened to his gut feeling. Abbott, in spring 2025, was gearing up for another reelection bid, having first won the governorship in 2014. Per reporting at the time, Abbott balked when President Donald Trump’s political team asked him and Republican lawmakers, who controlled both legislative chambers in Austin, to […]

Amazon Prime Video’s eight-episode take on Stephen King’s Carrie does not open by leering into the girls’ locker-room shower. Glad tidings? That depends, I suppose, on one’s perspective. Whereas Brian De Palma’s 1976 film adaptation was exploitative schlock, it possessed a certain enviable élan vital, not least when exploring the ferality of unsupervised teenagers. Prime’s […]

Some captains are remembered for the risks they took. Others are remembered for the way they made a bridge feel like a place of reason even when the stars were coming apart. Patrick Stewart, who died Oct. 28 at the age of 86, belonged to the second group. Long before he sat in the captain’s […]