The LA Unified School District (LAUSD) has been in trouble for a long time, despite the complacency of its leadership. But Alberto Carvalho, we were told, would be different...
Among the major shocks of this month’s Trump administration announcement of massive tariffs slapped on dozens of countries worldwide lies a less prominent but arguably more important one: The entire tariff scheme may just have been produced by artificial intelligence. The fallout from Liberation Day — what the White House labeled April 2, the day […]
Most people would not think of New Mexico and “crime” in the same sentence without thinking about Breaking Bad. But Albuquerque is in the middle of a crime crisis that most people may not have heard about, bringing up all the same issues that have already been examined in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los […]
The Studio, Seth Rogen’s new auteur project on Apple TV+, deserves credit for openly bragging about how expensive it is. In its second episode, the real-life actress and director Sarah Polley schemes her way into getting Rogen’s Matt Rennick, head of the fictional Continental Studios, to spend $800,000 for the rights to a Rolling Stones […]
Should it be surprising that over half of Americans who identify as “left of center” believe that assassinating President Donald Trump is justifiable? That’s what a new study from Rutgers University has found. According to the survey produced by the university’s Social Perception Lab that asked 1,264 U.S. citizens about their attitudes toward political violence, […]
Russian Jewish novelist Vasily Grosman, who was the first journalist to see the Nazi death camp Treblinka, once wrote, “Anti-Semitism is … a mirror for the failings of individuals, social structures and State systems. Tell me what you accuse the Jews of — I’ll tell you what you’re guilty of.” In On Democracies and Death […]
America is a rich country with a lot of poor people. Around 22 million people, nearly 1 in every 15 of us, are estimated to have assets worth at least $1 million. Our population of paper millionaires may have doubled between 2020 and 2023 alone. To fully savor this marvel of capitalism, money-printing, and inflation, […]
The Handmaid’s Tale burst onto the TV scene eight years ago and launched its sixth and final season earlier this month. From the start, it is an exercise in blunt-force storytelling, eschewing moral subtlety in favor of a didacticism intended to remind progressives of their inherent goodness. The Sons of Jacob, rulers of the Christian-nationalist […]
How can anyone, after April 9’s U-turn on tariffs, argue that President Donald Trump is following some brilliant strategy? The readiness of conservative commentators and politicians, almost all of them free traders before Trump altered their career incentives, to pretend to see genius in the president’s repeated contradictions is starting to scare me. Trump is […]
“I think it would be fun to run a newspaper,” said Charles Foster Kane. But in the telling of Graydon Carter, there was no enterprise more engaging, stimulating, or fun than running a glossy, well-subsidized general-interest magazine at the turn of the millennium. In a droll, trenchant, and surprisingly affable new memoir, When the Going […]
