LAS VEGAS — If California Gov. Gavin Newsom runs for president in 2028, next-door Nevada will be a crucial test. This fall’s governor’s race is offering a preview.As GOP...
It may be one of the most desperate cries for attention in contemporary United States politics. Yet, Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) announced he was challenging President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination in the 2024 presidential election. The relatively unknown Democrat announced his intent to run on Thursday night.
Robert Malley was the State Department’s lead negotiator in the Obama and Biden administrations’ efforts to “contain” Iran’s nuclear weapons program by licensing it. In April, the State Department suspended Malley’s security clearance, placed him on unpaid leave, and scrubbed his page from its website. Malley is now under investigation by the FBI: an unusually high level of scrutiny.
It’s time for the New England Patriots' 71-year-old coach, Bill Belichick, to retire. This isn't an indictment of the enigmatic, hoodie-clad coach’s illustrious career, which resulted in six Super Bowl titles. Instead, it's a call for closing the door on a now-bygone era in the NFL. This period wasn’t merely the epoch of Belichick; it was the Belichick-Tom Brady era — a two-decade-long dynasty that increasingly seems to be more attributable to Brady's football acumen than Belichick’s alleged coaching wizardry.
I was in a small group meeting recently to discuss the progress a certain web-based publication has made in reaching and developing its audience. The person running the meeting wanted to show us a few important graphs, and it was then that we all heard these alarming words:
San Francisco is a comedic kind of city in which residents see and acknowledge all the problems with living there and have thus far refused to do anything about any of them.
Kelsey Grammer’s Frasier Crane, a character whose televised exploits now span nearly four decades, was even at his inception not just a misfit but an anachronism.
Given enough time, cinematic ideology ceases to matter. Who today, watching Marlon Brando seethe through On the Waterfront (1954), would ding the film’s callous portrayal of union officials? One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) is affecting even in eras that practice institutionalization without apology. That the passing years sand the edges from political movies bodes well for Killers of the Flower Moon, a 3 1/2-hour land acknowledgment that is also a masterpiece of epic filmmaking. In 50 years, even conservatives will likely concede that it is among director Martin Scorsese’s greatest works.
Taylor Swift has become to America what “bread and circuses” were to the Roman Empire (which is just one of the many reasons you should still probably be talking about the Roman Empire, but I digress). She’s a talented singer and entertainer and, based on the records she broke over the summer, adored by many people nationwide. But we need to stop giving her so much attention — especially those who care to protect the lives of the unborn.
There have been expensive wristwatches for as long as there have been wristwatches of any kind, but it took the arrival of the smartphone and various other digital assistants to light a fire under the “luxury timepiece” business. There’s some justification for it, actually. After a brief and embarrassing period of Apple Watch mania, we all now understand that this much-coveted supercomputer-on-the-wrist is simply a closer and more humiliating leash to one’s employer, a public declaration of fealty to the imperious demands of email and Slack messages that can vibrate one’s pulse point instead of one’s pocket tackle.
