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 […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is seizing on Florida‘s resistance to Tuesday’s Democratic wave to pitch his record as a model for a battered Republican Party, even as narrower GOP victories at home raise questions about the strength of that model. As Democrats dominated statewide in traditional Republican strongholds, including Texas, South Carolina, Kansas, even Mississippi, […]

Vice President JD Vance has created distance between himself and President Donald Trump ahead of a likely 2028 presidential bid. Trump doesn’t seem to mind. At least not yet. Through leaks and public comments, Vance has made it clear that he opposed the Iran war. Unlike Trump, Vance didn’t endorse Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]