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Lena Dunham’s ‘Girls’ follow-up ‘Too Much’ and the middle-aged millennial

Too Much, the 10-episode Netflix series from Lena Dunham, invites a series of unflattering comparisons to the Girls auteur’s earlier work. There’s the shared cast (Dunham, show-stealer Andrew Rannells, Rita Wilson, and beloved character actor Richard Grant all make reappearances); the rapid-fire, zeitgeisty dialogue (Dunham wrote or co-wrote every episode); the messy, socially dysfunctional, yet […]

Life imitates art in ‘Tehran’

The night Israel launched its stunning aerial campaign against Iran last month, incredible stories began emerging from Tehran of senior generals and nuclear scientists assassinated in their apartments, attack drones launched by Israel from warehouses inside Iran, explosions at nuclear facilities, and even Mossad agents in Tehran. No matter how outlandish the rumors, they’d almost […]

When they let women paint

Shoplifting, murder, acid-throwing, hammer blows, knives, guns, and nearly every kind of threat proliferated in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Yet Paris was called the City of Light. It was home to cultural bastions such as the Louvre and to artists like Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van […]

Russiagate mastermind John Brennan must be held accountable

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s recent document dumps expose the determined and persistent campaign of former CIA Director John Brennan to use and abuse his office for the political aim of defeating Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016, trying to undermine Trump after he won, and weakening or derailing Trump’s presidency before it even […]

Federal appeals court rules California ammunition background checks unconstitutional

A federal appeals court ruled that California's law requiring gun owners to undergo background checks to purchase ammunition violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

The appeal of the void

I was halfway asleep on a very long plane ride when the flight attendant made a request. “Is there anyone on board,” she asked into the plane’s intercom, “who is a medical doctor?” I suppose she’s had enough experience with pompous academics with Ph.D.s that she felt the need to specify medical doctor. How many […]

Rubio slams Macron’s plan to recognize Palestinian state

Secretary of State Marco Rubio slammed Emmanuel Macron after the French president said on Thursday that France would recognize Palestinian statehood, arguing it will only assist Hamas and downgrade prospects of reaching a peace deal between the Palestinian militant group and Israel. “The United States strongly rejects @EmmanuelMacron’s plan to recognize a Palestinian state at...

Trump backs Joe Gruters of Florida as next RNC chair

President Trump on Thursday threw his support behind Florida state Sen. Joe Gruters (R) to serve as the next head of the Republican National Committee (RNC) with current chairman Michael Whatley set to announce a Senate bid in the coming days. Trump in a Truth Social post endorsed Whatley to run for Senate in North...

Kagan: Judicial orders ‘need to be respected’

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said Thursday that threats against judges should stop and emphasized that judicial orders “need to be respected.” “That’s just not the way our system works, not the way rule of law in this country works. That’s true for the Supreme Court, and it’s also true for every district court....

AARP endorses bill to prevent upcoding in Medicare Advantage 

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story  AARP endorses bill to prevent upcoding in Medicare Advantage  The senior interest group is putting its backing behind bipartisan legislation aimed at preventing the practice of upcoding in Medicare Advantage, when healthcare providers bill for inaccurate codes to...

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