America has fewer grand homes-turned-museums than Europe, for the perfectly simple reason that there have been Americans living grandly for so much less time. New York City has an unusually small number, and most of these bear no resemblance to their original uses. The Frick Collection is different. The museum, overlooking Central Park on Manhattan’s […]
At a time when the president of the United States tells everyone within earshot that he wants Canada to become America’s “cherished 51st state,” it feels mildly unpatriotic as a Canadian to review a book titled Don’t Be Canada, even more so for an American publication. Yet there is no escaping the fact that something […]
In Why Time Begins on Opening Day, Thomas Boswell wrote that a ballclub’s faithful finally learn the final score is only part of what matters, that “the process, the pleasure, the grain of the game count too.” In Pittsburgh this April, the grain of the game is a 100‑mile‑an‑hour fastball that rises like a hot […]
Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) said he’s prepared to receive the maximum 87-month prison sentence that prosecutors are seeking when he appears for his sentencing on Friday, but said he hopes the judge extends him some grace. “Right now, my expectation is I’m going to prison for 87 months,” Santos said in a phone interview...
Younger Americans are more likely than older Americans to say they’re doing better financially than they were a year ago, according to the latest “NBC News Stay Tuned” poll. In the mid-April survey, released Thursday, 27 percent of respondents aged 18-29 say their personal finance situation is “better today” than it was one year ago....
The Trump administration said it is “cautiously encouraged” by Yale University’s actions to combat antisemitism on campus amid the administration's crackdown on Ivy League universities. According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, the administration has noticed the university has taken actions against a new “antisemitic encampment” on...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents did not have a warrant when they arrested Mahmoud Khalil, according to court documents in which the Trump administration argues their action was legally justified. Khalil’s attorneys asked an immigration judge in Louisiana, where he has been detained for weeks, to terminate his case since ICE agents arrested him...
Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said in a new interview that the United States proposal for a peace deal with Ukraine is “moving in the right direction,” but there are still details that “need to be fine-tuned.” In a Thursday preview of an interview set to air on CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday,...