If you’ve ever ordered a pizza from Domino’s, Pizza Hut, or Papa John’s, you’ve probably eaten mozzarella made by Leprino Foods in Lemoore, California. But that era is coming to an end. Like hundreds of other companies, Leprino is pulling back from California and expanding operations in Texas. For decades, Leprino was a cornerstone of […]
It’s slim pickings out there for the responsible progressive these days. What is he to do for a pastime without fear of becoming a right-winger? Is he allowed to like anything? To the long list of behaviors that the major media have branded as right-wing, readers of Politico and the Washington Post have been warned […]
Almost a full 10 years after debuting on Netflix, Stranger Things has finally come to a close in its fifth and final season. Ordinarily, one would say that audiences grew up with the children at the heart of the science fiction bildungsroman, but that’s not really true in a case where the actors have lapped […]
People are generating wealth, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wants to put a stop to it. First on social media and now on Sunday TV shows, Sanders has called for a “moratorium” on all data center construction until “democracy” can “catch up” with technological change. Like so many of his proposals, this one would inflict […]
Some choices are minor and forgettable. Others have large, lasting repercussions. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’s decision to side with podcaster Tucker Carlson in an October 2025 video is decidedly the latter. Carlson had posted a softball interview with Hitler and Stalin devotee Nick Fuentes, in which Carlson attacked Christian Zionists as heretics with a […]
When S.M. Arthur, an honorary fellow of the University of Cambridge, wakes up to the realisation that he’s dead, as he does in “Late,” one of five stories collected in Salman Rushdie’s The Eleventh Hour, he takes it rather well. True enough, having only just entered his seventh decade he “had not envisaged this turn […]
For the overwhelming majority of people whose families, jobs, and personal pursuits loom larger than the endless mergers and acquisitions in Hollywood, the hue and cry over Netflix’s plans to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery is likely to elicit not much more than a shrug. To most ordinary, well-adjusted people, the ownership of a movie studio […]
Stranger Things was never meant to end like this, largely because it was never meant to go on the way it has. The first season was conceived and written as a limited series, with the possibility of succeeding other, entirely different seasons, similar to True Detective or American Horror Story. Someone at Netflix decided during filming that […]
President Trump said he is in “perfect health” and “aced” a cognitive exam for the third time in a row in a TruthSocial post on Friday. “The White House Doctors have just reported that I am in “PERFECT HEALTH,” and that I “ACED” (Meaning, was correct on 100% of the questions asked!), for the third...
President Trump early Friday warned Iran that the U.S. will “rescue” protesters in the nation if the regime further escalates its response to "peaceful" demonstrations. “If Iran [shoots] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social....
January, named for that two-faced Roman god, brings us into a midterm election year. And Janus makes a good emblem for these biennial contests, which are full of double meaning. For the broad electorate, particularly the persuadable voters who decide our elections on a national level, midterms are backward-looking. They are about the implicit and...
