The new PBS Masterpiece series Marble Hall Murders is a sumptuously filmed “cozy” with an unthreatening structural complexity. The Viking Cruises crowd will eat it up with a Christofle spoon. Like its predecessors, Magpie Murders (2022) and Moonflower Murders (2024), the new show is based on a book by Anthony Horowitz, who returns here as […]
Dogs bark, ducks quack, and populists offer free stuff. Enrique Pena Nieto dispensed around 10 million TV sets to low-income Mexican households. Hugo Chavez gave Venezuelans steeply discounted refrigerators, air conditioning units, and, again, TV sets. In Argentina, Evita Peron would personally hand out children’s toys, sewing machines, clothes, and kitchenware. None of these (for once […]
During Donald Trump’s first run for the presidency, China, the economic behemoth that was gutting America’s manufacturing base and flexing its muscles in East Asia, was his favorite punching bag. Yet as Trump was seeking to reclaim the presidency after four years in the political wilderness, his new foreign target was much closer to home: […]
Sex scenes and female nudity have long been central to Hollywood’s business model. Some of us have argued that such a business model is corrupt, harming both men and women — both those making the movies and those consuming the movies. We didn’t have much luck in persuading Hollywood or the general public of our views, though.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) breathtakingly selfish refusal to step down from her Senate seat may be benefiting Republicans, who get to watch President Joe Biden's judicial confirmations stagnate as they wait for the California Democrat to show up to work. But there's little question that the hubris of Feinstein, who turns 90 next month, sets a precedent that is bad for the republic as a whole.
WHEN TRUMP-RUSSIA WIRETAP WAS 'DRY HOLE,' FBI WOULDN'T STOP DIGGING. There's an incredible amount of information in special counsel John Durham's new 306-page report on the disastrous misdeeds and mistakes committed by the FBI and other government agencies in the Trump-Russia investigation. Here is one of many fascinating episodes.
Elections have consequences. Thanks to Republicans flipping the House in 2022, Americans have champions in Congress: House Republicans, led by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), are negotiating on behalf of the public to turn our economy in the right direction and hold President Joe Biden accountable for his hypocrisy and bad policy on the debt limit.
Special counsel John Durham released the long-awaited investigation findings into the origins of the FBI's original inquiry into whether the campaign of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election. Known officially as "Crossfire Hurricane," Durham's report vindicated Trump and was a scathing rebuke of what could only be considered institutional corruption at the FBI.
In that sense, the downplaying of Durham’s findings by the left, especially in the media, is dispiriting. They’ve been exposed, but not deterred. They...
A new Committee to Unleash Prosperity study “Putting Politics Over Pensions” finds that a majority of the largest firms are routinely violating that fiduciary...
