Among the signs of civilizational collapse are sinking fertility rates, a culture that promotes the postponement or abandonment of the pursuit of family life, and the release of a widely acclaimed movie that denigrates marriage itself. “One should always be in love,” reads the quote by Oscar Wilde that opens the rancid new comedy-drama The Invite. […]

It turns out that conservatives’ direst fears about the new Little House on the Prairie remake — Ma is a sex worker! Pa is trans! — were overblown. Still, Netflix’s eight-episode production is strangely unreal, like a two-legged horse or a pitchfork with no tines. A sanded-down work of historical bowdlerization, the show reimagines Manifest […]

Republican campaign committees and political action committees are outraising their Democratic counterparts by millions of dollars ahead of the November midterm elections. But in an election cycle where President Donald Trump is not on the ballot, and Democrats are itching to regain control of at least one branch of Congress after being shut out of […]

The third round of July Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in four days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or after the 21st of a month will receive this payment on July 22. The first round went out on July 8 to those born on or before […]