During the war against the Islamic Republic of Iran, U.S. Central Command released video footage of strikes against aircraft that were sitting on the ground.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell made 13 calls to lawmakers after the Justice Department opened a criminal probe into his congressional testimony about the Fed's renovations.
February is the month we set aside to remember that black history is American history. Whether clichéd or not, this phrase is true — and the truth deserves to be stated boldly and often. That is the message of President Donald Trump in his recent proclamation urging all of the public to observe Black History Month. In […]
The media trope of pitting two women against each other is almost always hackneyed, but especially when a feud only goes one way. Such is the unrelenting crusade of Cluster B bimbo Candace Owens against Erika Kirk, the widow of Owens’s supposed former friend Charlie Kirk. Unlike Owens, who has spent her entire life trying […]
What feedback would you give to the American men’s hockey team that won a gold medal at the Winter Olympics for the third time in history and the first since the 1980 Miracle on Ice? That’s right: They failed to meet the moment. CRITICS OF OLYMPIANS AT STATE OF THE UNION ARE ‘WHOLE BOWL OF […]
Mexican special forces killed the cartel leader El Mencho, known to his family and the Drug Enforcement Administration as Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, on Feb. 22 in a gun battle at the tourist resort of Tapalpa. El Mencho’s outfit, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, responded by blocking roads, setting fire to banks and businesses, and […]
Texas recently became the 18th state to create a K-12 education savings account that lets families spend state-funded dollars on private tuition and other educational items. Florida has two such programs, while Tennessee has three. None of these state-level education savings accounts is to be confused with federal 529 savings accounts, which allow families to […]
The old story came back with a vengeance in recent months. Headlines everywhere declared a “she-cession.” “Women are being forced out of their jobs.” Democratic congresswomen last fall teamed up to write the Trump administration, expressing their “deep concern about the alarming rate of women leaving the workforce.” They demanded that the U.S. Department of […]
Britain and the United States have just had their most serious falling-out since the 2024 election. Their quarrel was notionally over a leaseback deal for their joint military base on Diego Garcia, but in truth it was about international law. This time, and I say it as one of his critics, President Donald Trump was […]
There’s good news for Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, even this week, as the Office of the Inspector General investigation into an alleged inappropriate relationship with an underling revealed that her husband, Shawn DeRemer, has been banned from the Labor Department building after multiple sexual harassment allegations. Hers is not the worst Republican sex scandal of […]
If there was ever a point of agreement between supporters of President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 election cycle, it was on this item: The contest’s stakes were impossibly high. An Echelon Insights survey conducted on the eve of Election Day found that 78% of soon-to-be Trump voters and 82% […]
It wasn’t just a made-for-TV moment, it was engineered to go viral on social media. Congressional Democrats insolently sitting on their hands after President Donald Trump asked those who believe that the first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal immigrants, to stand. When Democrats didn’t, Trump admonished them, “You should […]
At a time when the Federal Communications Commission faces genuinely difficult questions about broadband expansion, spectrum allocation, and the future of communications infrastructure, Washington instead found itself consumed by a late-night comedy segment that never even aired. The spark was simple enough. Late Show host Stephen Colbert revealed that CBS would not broadcast an interview […]
Gone are the days when stars seemed to go from strength to strength — when Tom Hanks, for instance, followed Philadelphia with Forrest Gump, and Forrest Gump with Apollo 13, and Apollo 13 with Toy Story. Far more common is the stop-and-start trajectory of even an actress as comely and appealing as Sydney Sweeney, whose […]
In Season 2, Episode 6 of the Netflix series The Crown, titled “Vergangenheit,” Queen Elizabeth II confronts a devastating family secret. Historians have unearthed the Marburg Files — captured Nazi documents from 1945 that detail that her uncle, the Duke of Windsor (the former King Edward VIII), had extensive contacts with the Nazi high command […]
The other day, I mentioned to a new acquaintance my work as a TV critic for this magazine. I won’t elide the point: I was bragging. As sometimes happens, however, my boast spun around like a boomerang and knocked my teeth out. “There is much to criticize!” my friend replied with a laugh. That shut […]
