On Wednesday, a group of four Republican lawmakers, including Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Todd Young (R-IN), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and J.D. Vance (R-OH), advocated its vision of a new conservative economics. Regardless of one’s stance on these proposals, their top message was clear: American interests are key.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris earned the heartfelt endorsement of the abortion lobby not by being a pro-choice president and vice president but by staking out extremist positions on abortion and using the power of the executive to persecute opponents.
One month after President Donald Trump lost his reelection bid to Joe Biden, the New York Times published an article titled "Donald Trump Lost His Battle. The Culture War Goes On." Two-and-a-half years later, that headline is somewhat amusing. The former president still contends the 2020 election was quite literally stolen from him. And unsurprisingly, the culture war rages on with no sign of slowing down. The 45th president may have stirred American political discourse up as never before, but those cultural conflicts have always been simmering. Social media fans the flames. Trump did not create the tension but certainly encouraged it.
Author Jonathan Eig provides an absorbing account of King’s intellectual development and draws a clear line from his formative influences to his activism.
When Kevin Costner's first wife left him, the Oscar-winning actor was forced to pay her $80 million by the state of California, one of the most punitive divorce settlements in Hollywood history. Keen not to make the same mistake twice, Costner had his second wife, Christine Baumgartner, sign an ironclad prenup that, as written, was a solid deal for both.
The movie plays at times like the studious culmination of major themes and minor motifs Anderson has been probing for the better part of the past 25 years.
