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 […]
With Memorial Day approaching, you may start seeing TV and internet ads from CharitiesForVets.org. Unlike so many other commercials for military veterans charities, these bulletins aren’t asking for money. Instead, they provide resources for those who want to donate to others.
For the half-century that Roe v. Wade reigned supreme, pro-life politicians could make a killing by campaigning on fantasies of abolishing the nearly 1 million abortions performed in the country per year while doing absolutely nothing in practice. Now that the movement got what it sorely wished for, in the form of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling, Republicans are stuck between a rock and a hard place: What they spent 50 years promising versus what they can actually get done without decimating the party for a generation in the polls.
One of the first jobs of a diplomat is not to make a situation worse. Sometimes picking fights is appropriate, and sometimes it can lead to unnecessary drama.
A curious characteristic of many dictators is that they are desperate for the legitimacy of democracy even when unwilling to forfeit power. To pursue this paradox, they pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the facade of elections that are essentially baubles to distract from the consolidation of dictatorship.
Somewhere, buried deep beneath the mounds of churlish humor and forced MCU awkwardness of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is a heartfelt swansong, bookending the space adventure saga. But to wrest these fleeting gems, one must sit through 2 1/2 hours of nauseating dialogue, encapsulating the worst of what the Disney Marvel universe has to offer.
Fred Siegel, the urban historian who died last weekend at 78, really cared about cities because the near-lifetime Brooklynite liked people, lots of different...
The only difference between Daniel Penny and the heroic passengers aboard United 93 is he’s been charged with manslaughter by a usually soft-on-crime Manhattan...
New York's pro-criminal legislative leaders rejected Gov. Kathy Hochul’s push, late in budget season, for some modest fixes to the 2019 law on pre-trial...
