New York hosted the nation’s first Labor Day parade when 10,000 workers marched from City Hall to Union Square. As the movement grew, so did the parades and celebrations.
The far-right Alternative for Germany party surged to a resounding victory in a regional election Sunday, but fell a little short of winning a majority in its quest to form the country's first far-right state government since World War II.
An armed assailant lunged at the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, Amy Acton, on Sunday during a campaign stop at the Canfield Fair, injuring several people, campaign officials said.
In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Twenty months later, tens of thousands of civilians are dead, and Russia remains committed to its war on Ukrainian sovereignty. The need to aid Ukraine did not end on Oct. 7 when Hamas terrorists slaughtered more than 1,000 innocents in Israel. The crisis in the Middle East has exposed the partisan loyalties of many. But abandoning either Ukraine or Israel is not an option.
This week, I spoke at the University at Buffalo by invitation of its Young Americans for Freedom chapter. Protesters gathered outside to condemn the hate speech I was apparently about to deliver to students.
I really like TurboTax. Before I used TurboTax, I used to pay an accountant hundreds of dollars a year to do my slightly complicated taxes. (I have been a landlord, had a home office, had freelance income and expenses, and had to depreciate some business assets). TurboTax is much cheaper and not much extra effort.
As Israel reels from the worst terrorist attack in its history, some observers and many Israelis feel shocked, given the vaunted reputation of the Israel Defense Forces. Israel has long been considered a military superpower. In their new book, The Art of Military Innovation: Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces, Edward Luttwak and Eitan Shamir explain that Israel must be more than tough to survive. It must be smart as well.
“Even when we were kids, the term ‘child actor’ was shorthand for ‘future f---ed up adult,’” wrote actor Clint Howard, the rare child star to become a fully functioning adult, in his memoir The Boys, written with his brother, the equally productive director Ron. “Then as now, Hollywood is littered with cautionary tales.” The Howard siblings notwithstanding, a cursory glance at the history of show business reveals countless performers who charmed audiences as youths, fell into irrelevance as young adults, and drifted into disrepute, scandal, or otherwise sad outcomes.
When the celebrated country musician Hank Williams died on New Year’s Day in 1953 in a car on his way to a performance in Canton, Ohio, he had been traveling from Charleston, West Virginia, on U.S. Route 19, one of a series of north-south arteries that had conveyed millions of struggling Southern white people from Appalachia to new lives in the industrial Upper Midwest. This “Hillbilly Highway,” as historian Max Fraser calls it, was a dense network of interstate roads that couriered the job-seekers northward. It played a pivotal role in facilitating one of the most consequential migrations in American history.
Disney’s enormous TV and film production schedule often makes me wonder who its intended audience is. For decades, the answer would have been “children” or “families.” But Disney’s purchase of 21st Century Fox and its decision to take the Marvel and Star Wars franchises in darker directions means it is now making quite a lot that seems more geared for adults, including, most obviously, the R-rated Deadpool franchise.
The arts world was scandalized this past spring when the Washington National Opera announced that the sponsor of the production that would be opening its 2023-24 season was the General Dynamics Corporation, one of the world’s leading arms manufacturers. Things got all the hotter for the WNO when the schedule for the season showed it would feature the world premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded, an opera based on a play about a fighter pilot-turned-drone operator. The people who appropriate taxpayer money to buy Reaper drones had apparently given this corporation so much business that some of its leftover profits had been donated to the local Washington opera company to entertain them with a propaganda piece about the benefits of Reaper drones. Or so it was assumed.
