New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said late Tuesday that the city would not be able to execute an arrest warrant issued by the world's top war-crimes court for Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, but urged the federal government to do so.
Popular opinion has it that Washington, D.C., is filled with amoral, self-interested people who don’t really believe in anything save their own professional advancement. Of course, such people do exist. But their influence is short-lived. They come and go. Real influence comes from those who gain a reputation for their honesty, thoughtfulness, and selflessness. Those […]
The year: 1986. Two global superpowers have nuclear warheads pointed at each other. Many fear imminent war. “Two vivid characters meet over a weekend, on a desolate and windswept island, in a reputedly haunted house with rain lashing against its windowpanes, where they experience the most amazing things,” wrote Ken Adelman, President Ronald Reagan’s arms […]
Republicans in Washington usually want to empower workers and businesses to innovate and thrive. But they are pushing a bill that could create a massive new union that would crush the hopes and dreams of thousands of young athletes around the country. The bill is the so-called Protect College Sports Act, which claims to “stabilize […]
According to the 12 Democratic state attorneys general who sued this week to block Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, the theatrical movie business is “a big business, and it is thriving.” That premise carries the states’ theory of harm, and it does not survive contact with the box office: ticket sales […]
Christopher Nolan, perhaps the greatest director in the world, is back with another winner. The man behind Oppenheimer (2023) now gives us The Odyssey, a movie adaptation of Homer’s ancient epic. The film is already a massive success. Making $264 million in its first week alone and sitting at 95% and above on Rotten Tomatoes, […]
My father died from a smoking-related disease. As a physician, I have seen versions of his story repeated too many times: patients who knew cigarettes were harming them, wanted to stop, tried to stop — and still could not fully break free. That experience shaped my view of public health long before I served as […]
First, let us get it clear: Human life begins not with birth but with the fertilized egg. As soon as the sperm inserts itself into the egg, there is a new human being in existence. He, not it, is very young, incapable of entering into contracts, and does not even look at all like the […]
