It’s been a dangerous spring for American Jews. The country’s anti-Israel movement has traditionally focused its ire on the Jewish state. However, adherents are now brazenly harming Jews, and a suspected Jew, in the United States. Over seven weeks, Jews suffered three high-profile attacks. On April 13, the official residence of Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) […]
Just two months after President Donald Trump began a brief detente with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, he’s ramping up his old pressure campaign. Although Trump has stopped short of reiterating his prior, but since-retracted threat to fire Powell, the president has teased announcing his nominee to replace him long before the beleaguered central bank […]
Two important things happened on May 13, 2021. The first was that, according to a bulletin posted that day on the website of the American Hospital Association, “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today updated its interim guidance stating that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask or physically distance in […]
I am part of the repertory cinema scene in Los Angeles, that lonely confederacy of men in graphic tees, paying for parking just to watch movies you could easily rent on Amazon. So I speak from both authority and trial and error when I say the David Geffen Theater at the Academy Museum of Motion […]
The massive tax cut legislation passed by the House and Senate this week will dramatically upend health care in America. The legislation, now on its way to President Trump, was never framed as a health bill, but it will mark the biggest changes to U.S. health policy since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed...
The Trump administration is effectively shutting down a vast swath of summer programming and after-school activities after it froze more than $6 billion of funding to these programs this week. Schools and organizations across the country have already informed parents to look at alternative options for their children, saying if the funding isn’t released...
President Trump's domestic agenda bill spans military and immigration measures, major cuts to national healthcare, and numerous industrial incentives — but the heart of the bill is still tax cuts. The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation scored the Senate version of the bill as cutting deficits by $500 billion over ten...
The Trump admin announces a process allowing farmers to vouch for their long-term migrant workers facing deportation, enabling them to remain in the U.S. despite immigration status if the farmer is willing to take responsibility for that person.
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...
Paris is a city of great pleasures, but one of the best is sitting on the exterior terrace of a cafe, drinking something delicious, and puffing away on a cigar. It’s a pretty complete experience — two kinds of intoxicants entering the bloodstream, the bustle and hum of the city as it passes by, the […]