When Jurassic World premiered in 2015, it had been 14 years since the release of the previous installment in the series, the very polarizing Jurassic Park III (2001). So it only made sense that we’d meet a whole new cast of characters. Today, only three years have passed since the last film, the infuriatingly bad […]
Raynor and Moth Winn’s world collapsed when they were in their 50s. The British couple lost their home and savings after investing in a friend’s business, then Moth was diagnosed with a rare and fatal degenerative brain disorder. Out of money and running out of time, they took to the road, camping along southwestern England’s […]
“The Muslim Brotherhood,” the late historian Barry Rubin once remarked, “is by far the most successful Islamist group in the world.” But nearly a century after its creation, and decades after it spawned dozens of terrorist organizations, the Brotherhood isn’t designated as a terrorist group by the United States. Now, some in the U.S. Congress […]
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...
President Trump said Thursday he will impose a 35% tariff on Canadian goods, a major development in the U.S. trade relationship with its northern neighbor.
Every fall, the American Library Association publishes a list of banned books during its Banned Books Week campaign. No book on this list is actually banned in the United States. Every single one can be bought “wherever books are sold,” as the slogan goes. So, why does the ALA publish it? The short answer, I […]
The day after the odometer on his father’s 1973 Ford Maverick “turned over” from 99,999 to 100,000, my friend Scott skipped school for the first and probably last time in his life. Can you blame him? After all, everyone in our rather upscale suburb had seen the eight-year-old compact Ford rolling around at a walking […]
If 10 people had been arrested as part of a conspiracy to kill Internal Revenue Service agents or Environmental Protection Agency inspectors, and the crime scene had been littered with graffiti and flyers echoing Republican Party talking points, the New York Times would have made it front page news and would have immediately done detailed […]
A confrontation erupted Thursday between protesters and federal officials carrying out a raid on a Southern California farm, with authorities throwing canisters that sprayed what looked like smoke into the air to disperse the crowd.
It’s now been more than a decade since the death of Michael Brown, and half a decade since the death of George Floyd, two incidents that thrust police officers’ use of force into the national spotlight, led to protests and riots, and reinvigorated long-standing debates about whether police are biased against black people. And yet, […]