“I could not have a stay-at-home woman,” NBA legend LeBron James declared. Everybody’s Crazy is the name of the podcast where James took his stance against the single-earner household. “Just coming home and just seeing somebody just sitting on the couch, every day, just sitting there,” he said. “Just chilling. Like that wouldn’t float for […]
The top four tech companies have committed roughly $700 billion to AI data center construction in 2026 alone. But to become AI infrastructure, that money needs traditional infrastructure — power, water, and permits — and now Big Tech is discovering, the hard way, that America can’t deliver physical infrastructure on schedule. Gartner projects that 40% […]
If you are a single person living alone and you make $46,000 a year, then you are a solidly middle-class American. Unless you live in Orange County, where you can make double that amount and still be considered poor. The California Department of Housing and Community Development released its “Official State Income Limits” for the […]
Soccer isn’t a source of American metaphors. People cover their bases, play hardball, and take a swing and a miss. The Monday morning quarterback comments on a Hail Mary. You roll with the punches when you’re on the ropes. A full-court press is a game changer. But language is as much a metaphor for life […]
One of the toughest things in politics is trying to explain that, yes, things are bad, but no, they are not quite as bad as you think. I have yet to find a way to make that argument without it being misunderstood or caricatured. It is an argument that almost every British conservative now finds […]
Playwright Peter Shaffer (1926-2016) chased the same idea for 30 years. A mild-mannered, rule-bound protagonist meets a counterpart who is wild at heart. Our hero is at first repelled but soon becomes fascinated, envious, even obsessed. Theatergoers who remember Five Finger Exercise (1958), The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964), Equus (1973), and Lettice and […]
On the anniversary of Bashar Assad’s fall, a small group of professionals gathered at Aznavour, a restaurant in Damascus’s Old City. Red light washed over stone walls as hookah smoke hung in the air and a television cycled through Arabic music videos. They had come to talk about what had changed in Syria — and […]
Like a shark hunter who has lost track of the shark, or an adventurer unable to locate the Ark of the Covenant, Steven Spielberg has been drifting for the better part of the decade. In recent years, Spielberg has seemed far removed from the glories of Jaws (1975) or Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), to say nothing of […]
President Donald Trump says he wants to avoid more lives being lost in Lebanon. But doing so will require reversing disastrous policy decisions and rhetoric he and his lieutenants have recently adopted. Trump and his administration should empower Israel, not restrain it. And the president should not give Iran and its proxies, such as Hezbollah, […]
Fewer and fewer people are panicking about the climate "catastrophe." Gallup's latest survey of the world's most important problems found that the median share of...
