The Democratic Socialists of America is an ascendant force in U.S. politics. This summer alone, it has toppled incumbents in the House of Representatives, clinched mayorships, and laid the groundwork for increased power at the state level. The DSA counts Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as members. Its caucuses […]

The trouble with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey starts with the casting of Matt Damon as Odysseus. True, this may not be as egregiously bad as John Wayne as Genghis Kahn in the 1956 movie The Conqueror — a choice so notorious that it inspired the title for a book about ill-advised casting, Damien Bona’s Starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan: […]

Apple TV’s Lucky begins with a betrayal and ends with a gift. In between are seven episodes of blithely derivative action fun, as unoriginal as they are expertly made. The show borrows from the Bourne movies (2002–2016), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Run Lola Run (1998), and even The Sopranos (1999–2007). The result is […]

A pair of Florida fishermen is challenging severe government-imposed limits on how much fish they can catch in the Gulf of America by going after the legality of the council that implemented the 2024 rule change. Fishermen Dominick and James Russo filed a lawsuit in 2024 alleging that Amendment 56, which reduced the commercial catch […]