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 […]
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia — The baby boomers waving American flags and the Vietnam Vets hats were one thing. It was the “Sic Semper Tyrannis” signs and flags, the various barbs at George III, and the countless references to the Declaration of Independence and Constitution that brought back memories of 2010. This “No Kings” rally right […]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency isn’t just broken, it’s dangerous. The ossified bureaucracy can’t manage routine disasters without self-asphyxiating in red tape. In Puerto Rico, after Hurricane Maria, only 5%-8% of work was completed by the October 2019 deadline. It’s still not finished. Repeated blackouts expose the island’s fragility and FEMA as a soft underbelly […]
Federal law enforcement officers have high-stakes, high-pressure jobs, and federal judges should not make a habit of second-guessing decisions officers make to keep us safe. But some actions are so negligent and harmful that innocent people injured by law enforcement ought to have the right to seek compensation in federal court. For too long, lower […]
The weekend’s grand military parade in Washington to celebrate the Army’s 250th anniversary was a feel-good patriotic triumph and a rebuke to Democrats and...
The moderators of the televised New York City mayoral debates overseen by the Campaign Finance Board have clearly skewed the discussion away from the...
Word of warning to Health Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr.: Restoring Americans' trust in the feds' public-health decisions means hiring truly fair-minded, science-driven folks —...
THE PARADE WAS A GOOD THING. Here’s the first thing to say about Saturday’s military parade in Washington, D.C., honoring the Army’s 250th birthday: It was a good thing to do. It wasn’t a vanity production for President Donald Trump’s birthday. It wasn’t an authoritarian flex. It wasn’t a threat to the American people. It was, […]
The Los Angeles riots have made it crystal clear: Congress’ Big Beautiful Bill is crucial to President Donald Trump’s law-and-order agenda of deporting illegal...