We are a different country than we were a quarter-century ago, when federal agent Jack Bauer first stayed up all night in our service. For one thing, around 90 million of us weren’t born in time for the November 2001 premiere of Fox’s 24. Another 10 million current Americans hadn’t immigrated yet, to say nothing […]

New York’s 1970s punk scene remains one of the most talked-about eras in rock history – Blondie, Talking Heads, and the Ramones all managed to catapult from CBGB’s in the East Village to international fame. The band Television never managed that transition, though they were just as revered and, in some respects, more innovative. And […]

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) called on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to testify before the Senate banking committee as a scandal involving the onetime chief executive and a Chinese spy has begun to boil over. Scott, chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, sent letters to […]

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said Thursday night that he would be challenging Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for majority leader as a growing chorus of Senate Democrats calls for a new face to lead the party in the 120th Congress. “In this election, Americans called on us to unrig an economy rigged against working people […]