Comedian Bill Maher rejected criticism of his March White House visit organized by Kid Rock and said he shared harsh truths with President Trump in their face-to-face meeting. During Friday’s episode of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” he compared his one-on-one with the president to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Oval Office appearance, where she...
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Saturday afternoon to reject an emergency request to temporarily pause the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants to El Salvador swiftly detained in portions of Texas. In a court filing, Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the high court to "dissolve its current administrative stay"...
Three Pentagon officials fired on Friday after being placed on administrative leave amid an ongoing investigation into information leaks at the Defense Department say they are "incredibly disappointed by the manner in which our service at the Department of Defense ended." In a joint statement from Dan Caldwell, Colin Carroll, and Darin Selnick, posted on...
America is a rich country with a lot of poor people. Around 22 million people, nearly 1 in every 15 of us, are estimated to have assets worth at least $1 million. Our population of paper millionaires may have doubled between 2020 and 2023 alone. To fully savor this marvel of capitalism, money-printing, and inflation, […]
The Handmaid’s Tale burst onto the TV scene eight years ago and launched its sixth and final season earlier this month. From the start, it is an exercise in blunt-force storytelling, eschewing moral subtlety in favor of a didacticism intended to remind progressives of their inherent goodness. The Sons of Jacob, rulers of the Christian-nationalist […]
How can anyone, after April 9’s U-turn on tariffs, argue that President Donald Trump is following some brilliant strategy? The readiness of conservative commentators and politicians, almost all of them free traders before Trump altered their career incentives, to pretend to see genius in the president’s repeated contradictions is starting to scare me. Trump is […]
“I think it would be fun to run a newspaper,” said Charles Foster Kane. But in the telling of Graydon Carter, there was no enterprise more engaging, stimulating, or fun than running a glossy, well-subsidized general-interest magazine at the turn of the millennium. In a droll, trenchant, and surprisingly affable new memoir, When the Going […]
