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: […]
NR’s home page on Tuesday featured my essay “Virginia’s Amendment 1 Is Extreme and Deceptive: The voter referendum would allow abortion up to birth,...
The conventional historical understanding is that after becoming Chief Justice in February 1801 John Marshall continued as Secretary of State for the remaining month...
Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel claimed on Wednesday that President Trump's administration forced him to cancel the live airing of an interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico.
The FBI's active-shooter database routinely misses cases where an armed civilian stops an active-shooter attack, according to a new report from the Crime Prevention Research Center.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent compares Canada's prime minister to a yappy little dog, universities scramble to distance themselves from Charlie Kirk look-alike contests, and Lara Trump shares why her father-in-law treasured meeting Queen Elizabeth.
