At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, even a flute can now be treated as human remains, as it indicated in a peculiar notice in the Federal Register last week.
It's an award fully focused on comedy, yet some serious drama surrounded the Kennedy Center as Bill Maher received this year's Mark Twain Prize. But the controversy about the name and future of the Kennedy Center didn't stop several stars and a bipartisan group of lawmakers from heading to the performing arts hub in a...
Mississippi's new immigration law allows state authorities to compile a list of all illegal immigrants, alarming advocates who fear targeting for deportation.
To borrow a great line from the movie Under Siege 2, “Assumption is the mother of all f*** ups.” Russian President Vladimir Putin assumed that launching the war on Ukraine in February 2022 would lead to a rapid and decisive Russian victory. He was wrong. As Russia fails to make substantive progress in that war […]
Not only did Qatar gin up the International Criminal Court’s lawless prosecution of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged “war crimes,” the Arab...
May is mental health awareness month, a time dedicated to raising awareness, normalizing help-seeking, and reducing stigma surrounding mental health. Those efforts matter, but they are simply not enough. If we are serious about saving lives, we need to change the way we think about suicide prevention. For someone in the depths of suicidal thoughts, […]
One would never know it by the collective silence of legacy media reports in the United States, but a French nun was brutally attacked in Jerusalem earlier this week. The attack, and subsequent U.S. legacy media silence, comes as attacks against Christians have become more frequent, yet go largely unreported, especially compared to reports of […]
In 1869, the first-ever American transcontinental railroad was completed at Promontory Summit, then in the Utah Territory. Passengers and cargo from the industrial cities of the Northeast could make the steam-powered one-week journey toward the West Coast, stretching the American frontier and settling the West. Nearly 160 years later, highway systems and airplanes have taken […]
Earlier this year, as parents across the United States filed their taxes, a serious question kept coming up at kitchen tables: Why are we paying into an education system that no longer reflects our values, and then struggling to afford the education we actually want for our children? That question deserves an honest answer. The […]
President Donald Trump has set high expectations for Iraq’s newly designated prime minister, Ali al Zaidi, expectations that reflect Washington’s long-standing hope for a stable, reliable partner in Baghdad. But Iraq’s reality is far more complicated. In Iraq, leadership is not just about capability — it is about constraint. And those constraints are built into the […]
The Strait of Hormuz is closed, and Iranian officials are reportedly begging Washington to reopen it. Beijing has tightened its grip on rare earths. And Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is raising $100 billion through Project Prometheus to buy the American manufacturers whose production lines depend on both. Three crises. One vulnerability. And a solution sitting […]
Democrats keep learning the hard way that what goes around comes around. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) changed voting rules in 2017 so Democrats couldn’t filibuster Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court. He did the same for future Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. This helped President Donald Trump promote three originalist […]
After five decades of conflict, Iran under the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei constituted a “clear and present danger” to the West. The notion proffered by some that there needed to be an imminent threat to trigger military action only invites future tragedy. With this said, while the administration’s decision to attack Iran appears to be […]
By the time you’re reading this, the United Arab Emirates, the world’s fourth-largest oil exporter, will have left the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries after nearly 60 years of membership. In an existential blow to the historically indomitable oil cartel, the Gulf monarchy announced that it would instead “respond to evolving market needs” by […]
In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. Republicans are scrambling to show the public they are trying to […]
