Eight years after the publication of 1984’s Bright Lights, Big City, that riotous and audacious first novel about a twenty-something man crashing and burning in the glittering streets and shadier corners of Manhattan, Jay McInerney broadened his scope and produced a multistranded, multivoiced work. Published in 1992, Brightness Falls documented the charmed lives of New […]
When the Chinese Communist Party’s English-language flagship, Global Times, lectures American readers about the “high energy consumption” of U.S. data centers, it isn’t because Beijing has developed a soft spot for our electric bills. It’s because every server farm we don’t build in Texas or Virginia is one China gets to build first. That line […]
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s attempt to certify the results of her redistricting constitutional amendment referendum, a procedural step Spanberger had scheduled for today. Now the court has more time to decide whether the governor violated the commonwealth’s Constitution in her mad dash to alter it. The arguments in Virginia’s […]
Inland Ale Works is a great brewery in Cheney, Washington. Established in a remodeled auto shop, the whole place is decorated with photos of old Spokane, Washington, breweries and horse-drawn wagons loaded with beer barrels. There are ads for Rainier, National Bohemian, and Golden Age beers. I was there on Saturday to talk to my […]
After the U.S. military launched operations to de-mine the Strait of Hormuz, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy reportedly warned an American destroyer in the passageway. “This is the last warning. This is the last warning,” the Iranian forces radioed to one of the two U.S. destroyers in the strait, according to the Wall...
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Iranian parliament, said Sunday that U.S. officials “failed to gain the trust” of their Iranian counterparts after peace talks in Islamabad, Pakistan collapsed. “Before the negotiations, I emphasized that we have the necessary good faith and will, but due to the experiences of the two previous wars, we...
“We can either have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few. But we can’t have both,” Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once warned. His concerns have never been more relevant. Economic and wage inequality has hit a 30-year high. Among peer countries, the U.S. ranks first in poverty, second in infant mortality...
Retired Gen. David Petraeus on Sunday said that extended talks between U.S. and Iranian officials are possible, saying that Iran is "quite good at dragging out negotiations." Petraeus discussed the negotiations on the “Cats Roundtable” radio show hosted by John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM. He told Catsimatidis that "all eyes are on Pakistan right now," and...
A recent poll shows AI’s increasing role in how students decide on college majors, creating a rapidly developing situation for universities that are still struggling to determine how the technology will shape higher education. The Lumina Foundation-Gallup 2026 State of Higher Education survey found 47 percent of currently enrolled college students have thought about switching majors “a great deal” or a...
As President Trump strives to remake Washington in his image, his White House ballroom project stands apart. In court filings this week, his administration insisted that halting construction of the $400 million ballroom would amount to a national security threat — a departure from the broader claims of executive power undergirding other projects. It raises...
Vice President Vance, speaking to reporters after a marathon day of negotiations with Iran, said no progress was made toward a peace agreement, which he added was "bad news for Iran." Coming amid a 14-day ceasefire in the war, Vance called the 21 hours of negotiations with the Iranian delegation, mediated by Pakistan and held...
China is preparing to deliver new air defense systems to Iran in the next few weeks, following over a month of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran's military and missile capabilities, CNN reported Saturday. The outlet cited three people familiar with recent U.S. intelligence assessments. Two of these sources told the outlet that Beijing could route...
A U.S. Court of Appeals on Saturday said that construction of the White House ballroom can carry on temporarily after a judge halted construction late last month. A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1 that the preliminary injunction be put on pause until April 17, allowing for...
Senior delegations from the U.S. and Iran arrived in Islamabad this week, where Pakistan hosted a high-stakes meeting between the countries just days after announcing a temporary ceasefire had been reached in the Middle East conflict. Vice President JD Vance, special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, landed in Pakistan on Saturday...
Former diplomat Richard Haass on Saturday said that tensions between the U.S. and the Vatican have reached a 23 out of a 1-to-10 scale. "Morning Joe Weekend" co-host Willie Geist asked Haass how unusual a reported threat from the Pentagon to the Vatican's former diplomat was during a meeting in January. "On a scale of...
Democrats’ push to redistrict in Virginia is entering the home stretch as the party seeks to solidify an advantage in four more House districts ahead of the November midterms. Heavyweight donors have poured millions of dollars into the April 21 contest, which asks Virginians to consider a constitutional amendment that would redraw the Old Dominion’s...
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office on Saturday said it is investigating Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), the front-runner in the crowded California gubernatorial race, in connection with a sexual assault allegation from a former staffer, multiple outlets reported. The former staffer alleged that after a night of drinking with Swalwell in New York City in...
Retired Army Gen. Jack Keane urged President Trump to take action to break Tehran's control over the Strait of Hormuz. In a Friday interview on the “Cats & Cosby” radio show, Keane told hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby that the U.S. should stop Iran’s oil-carrying ships from reaching their destinations in places like China,...
