Federal Communications Committee Chairman Brendan Carr’s clampdown on TV stations has a surprising antecedent. Sixty-five years ago, another activist FCC chief, Newton N. Minow, also read the riot act to TV networks. Minow, an appointee of President John F. Kennedy, came from a very different political philosophy than Carr, who was selected by President Donald […]

Former U.S. Capitol police officer Harry Dunn is competing with Maryland state Del. Adrian Boafo, the Democratic Party’s favored candidate to succeed retiring Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) in the race for Maryland’s 5th Congressional District. This isn’t the first time Dunn has run for the House. In 2024, he lost to then-Maryland state Sen. Sarah […]

Playwright Peter Shaffer (1926-2016) chased the same idea for 30 years. A mild-mannered, rule-bound protagonist meets a counterpart who is wild at heart. Our hero is at first repelled but soon becomes fascinated, envious, even obsessed. Theatergoers who remember Five Finger Exercise (1958), The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964), Equus (1973), and Lettice and […]

Like a shark hunter who has lost track of the shark, or an adventurer unable to locate the Ark of the Covenant, Steven Spielberg has been drifting for the better part of the decade. In recent years, Spielberg has seemed far removed from the glories of Jaws (1975) or Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), to say nothing of […]