There’s good news for Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, even this week, as the Office of the Inspector General investigation into an alleged inappropriate relationship with an underling revealed that her husband, Shawn DeRemer, has been banned from the Labor Department building after multiple sexual harassment allegations. Hers is not the worst Republican sex scandal of […]
Britain and the United States have just had their most serious falling-out since the 2024 election. Their quarrel was notionally over a leaseback deal for their joint military base on Diego Garcia, but in truth it was about international law. This time, and I say it as one of his critics, President Donald Trump was […]
If there was ever a point of agreement between supporters of President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 election cycle, it was on this item: The contest’s stakes were impossibly high. An Echelon Insights survey conducted on the eve of Election Day found that 78% of soon-to-be Trump voters and 82% […]
It wasn’t just a made-for-TV moment, it was engineered to go viral on social media. Congressional Democrats insolently sitting on their hands after President Donald Trump asked those who believe that the first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal immigrants, to stand. When Democrats didn’t, Trump admonished them, “You should […]
At a time when the Federal Communications Commission faces genuinely difficult questions about broadband expansion, spectrum allocation, and the future of communications infrastructure, Washington instead found itself consumed by a late-night comedy segment that never even aired. The spark was simple enough. Late Show host Stephen Colbert revealed that CBS would not broadcast an interview […]
In Season 2, Episode 6 of the Netflix series The Crown, titled “Vergangenheit,” Queen Elizabeth II confronts a devastating family secret. Historians have unearthed the Marburg Files — captured Nazi documents from 1945 that detail that her uncle, the Duke of Windsor (the former King Edward VIII), had extensive contacts with the Nazi high command […]
Gone are the days when stars seemed to go from strength to strength — when Tom Hanks, for instance, followed Philadelphia with Forrest Gump, and Forrest Gump with Apollo 13, and Apollo 13 with Toy Story. Far more common is the stop-and-start trajectory of even an actress as comely and appealing as Sydney Sweeney, whose […]
The other day, I mentioned to a new acquaintance my work as a TV critic for this magazine. I won’t elide the point: I was bragging. As sometimes happens, however, my boast spun around like a boomerang and knocked my teeth out. “There is much to criticize!” my friend replied with a laugh. That shut […]
Writer David Foster Wallace‘s doorstopper 1996 novel, Infinite Jest, has just been reissued in a 30th-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by Michelle Zauner. Oddly, when reading that foreword, one has to wade through a good deal of discussion of its readership’s demographic before one reads anything about the text itself. The ratio of words […]
In his new novel Vigil, George Saunders puts us in the mind of an angel who crashes to earth for the purpose of comforting a dying sinner. Not just any sinner. Her “charge,” as she calls him throughout, is the kind of sinner some readers may think is least deserving of comfort. K.J. Boone, the […]
The Department of Justice sued five additional states, requesting voter roll data as the Trump administration intensifies efforts to access election records.
Red states are winning the corporate headquarters battle as Texas dominates relocations while California bleeds business losses in unprecedented shift.
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