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: […]
The man who sent two congressional staffers to the hospital after beating them with a baseball bat Monday, Xuan Kha Tran Pham, was no stranger to Fairfax County law enforcement.
PROFESSIONAL GOLF'S POLITICAL MELTDOWN. For more than a year, professional golf has been engulfed in a civil war over money and politics. The cause has been the creation of a new tour, funded by the vastly wealthy government of Saudi Arabia, to challenge the dominance — some would say the monopoly — of the PGA Tour.
They’re entering the friend zone New show. “Platonic.” It’s platonic friendship about a friendly relationship. Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen are executive producers. Also stars. Rose: “It’s a...
Republicans: Iowa for Ron! “We help lead Iowa’s state Legislature,” note Amy Sinclair & Matt Windschitl at the Des Moines Register in endorsing Gov....
There are many embarrassing findings concerning the FBI in special counsel John Durham's just-published report into the bureau's investigation of the Trump campaign's possible collusion with Russia. Still, the FBI isn't the only one feeling the heat Monday. The report will also make for unpleasant reading at the central London headquarters of Britain's MI6.
