Looking back at it now, 10 years later, the warning signs were clear from the start — from the first trailer, in fact. Its initial image was a shot of a speeder zooming past the wreckage of a long-forgotten battle, an X-wing in the foreground dwarfed by a Star Destroyer in the background. Following it […]
When President Donald Trump roared to victory in 2024, conservatives told themselves a number of just-so stories. Biden-era profligacy had driven the Democratic Party into its grave, leaving MAGA Republicans to plot America’s future alone. Former President Barack Obama’s “coalition of the ascendant” had permanently splintered. Most importantly, wokeness was spent as a cultural force. […]
After years of Scandinavian and Bauhaus-inflected minimalism, no-frills graphic design, and the Marie Kondo-inspired culling of closets, clutter is suddenly back in style. According to the New York Times, a Ralph Lauren Christmas was the trend of the holiday season, although you don’t need to shop at Ralph Lauren to get the look. Cost-conscious consumers […]
The American republic is tottering toward its 250th birthday like a character in a Jimmy Buffett song: debauched and in debt, but with its Stanley cup half full and its flip-flops still flapping. Meanwhile, American English remains forever young, a furnace of deregulated creativity. The French language is regulated by the “immortals” of the Académie […]
For nearly two years, Hamas’ external brass directed a genocidal war from Qatar’s luxury bubble. Now, terror’s leadership carries the danger it has earned.
THE GRIM NEWS ABOUT JOBS. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has revised the number of jobs it says were created in the year between April 2024 and March 2025. Until now, the official line was that the economy created 1.758 million jobs in that period. Now, the BLS says only 847,000 jobs were created, less than […]
Like everyone else, my imagination filled in the missing gap of the original video of Iryna Zarutska’s murder with images from an action film: the killer’s knife, flashing beside his shrouded face, plunges in a frenzied swing, opening the young woman’s throat almost painlessly — a Tarantino-esque spasm of stylized violence. This is my cultural […]
Democrats are hurdling toward becoming the party of socialism, embracing the failed ideology right after voters made it clear in the 2024 elections that the party is too radical. Gallup found that capitalism has its lowest approval rating (54%) in the United States since 2010, the first time the polling outlet asked this question. That is being […]
An Israeli strike has taken out top Hamas leaders in Qatar. The strike is among the most significant operations in the two-year-long war that followed the Oct. 7 massacre. And its aftereffects will reverberate throughout the region and beyond. On Sept. 9, Israeli air strikes hit a compound in Doha where top Hamas apparatchiks were gathering. The […]
PITTSBURGH — “There should have been a primary.” Jo Jo Burgess was a delegate at the Democratic National Committee and a full-throated supporter of former Vice President Kamala Harris in the general election. He’s the mayor of Washington, Pennsylvania, a Democrat-leaning town in the middle of very Republican Washington County, in southwestern Pennsylvania. When asked […]
At this rate, with President Donald Trump being one of the most decisive presidents in history, statistics show that his endorsement could undoubtedly lead a candidate to victory. As Ian Vallencillo, commissioner of Sweetwater, Florida, told the Washington Examiner, Trump is one of “the most popular political figures,” stating that voters “overwhelmingly support Trump’s picks.” […]
Israel’s precise strike in the petrostate sheikdom of Qatar has reportedly killed a number of top Hamas warlords. And it happened only 23 months too late. Every one of the reported dead had been sanctioned by the U.S. government for terrorist activities. Each one of them, by any moral or legal understanding, was engaged in […]
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia — Most of the houses on Summerfield Road in this Virginia suburb are Cape Cods, with a few McMansions mixed in. But the very last house is a two-story colonial that is now up for rent, now that it no longer operates as a whorehouse. Asian massage parlors where clientele can pay […]
