Sometimes watching the two major parties compete in this year’s midterm elections brings to mind a quote from the legendary baseball manager Casey Stengel, which journalist Jimmy Breslin used to title his 1963 book: “Can’t anybody here play this game?” Democrats have a historic opportunity to seize control of both houses of Congress for the […]
To call Spider-Man: Brand New Day a movie is to do a disservice to all other examples of filmed entertainment that bear the name. As traditionally understood, a movie purports to tell a story to an audience whose ideal state is one of relative ignorance. Preconceptions, assumptions, and advance knowledge in the viewing public are regarded as […]
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) does not look or present like the same person he was five years ago. The boyish face that made him a cable news fixture during the 2017 Georgia special election, the one that Republicans in the 6th Congressional District hung in mailers next to the word “outsider,” has been replaced by […]