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: […]
Former Gov. Glenn Youngkin is making a last-ditch plea to Virginia voters, urging them to vote against a redistricting ballot measure Tuesday and warning that the Democrats want to replace the fairest congressional map in the country with a heavily gerrymandered one.
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues ActBlue, accusing the Democrat fundraising platform of deceiving donors and enabling alleged fraudulent and foreign donations.
Trump advisers Susie Wiles and James Blair meet with GOP consultants to coordinate midterm strategy as Republicans defend slim congressional majorities.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter defending a D.C. court ruling against police in a case about reasonable suspicion for a traffic stop.
Gov. Greg Abbott says Houston is in breach of contract and must repay Texas $110 million or repeal its sanctuary-type ordinance limiting ICE cooperation.
Rep. Haley Stevens was booed by pro-Palestinian activists during a speech at Michigan Democrats' spring convention amid a heated Senate primary battle.