If you’ve ever blown out a transmission on a rural highway, had a rock puncture your radiator on a gravel road, or just gotten into an accident on an interstate, you know what a lifesaver tow trucks can be. But now, in the state once more synonymous with car driving than any other, tow trucks […]
ExCeL London is a convention center by the Thames in what used to be the London docks. Once the busiest port in the world, it is now called Docklands, a regenerative marketing concept from the 1980s. The ExCeL could be anywhere, but it had to be here because it had to go somewhere, and nowhere […]
Like a lovers’ quarrel, Apple TV+’s Valentine’s Day release, The Gorge, is likely to split audiences into two mutually uncomprehending camps. For some, a hugely entertaining first hour will prove worth the price of admission, never mind the film’s outright disaster of a second half. Others, not without justice, will skip the climax and denouement altogether, so obviously […]
It’s an old dark joke among Beltway conservatives and libertarians: A friend buys a condo on Capitol Hill or in Clarendon, and you say, “Congrats. But are you worried that Republicans will take over and the government will shrink?” Everyone has a hearty laugh. In the days of DOGE — the Department of Government Efficiency, […]
As someone deeply concerned about institutional corruption, much has been refreshing about Elon Musk’s merry band of DOGE barbarians laying waste to dubious federal programs and expenditures. Sure, the cuts are mainly symbolic window dressing that don’t particularly affect the government’s dire fiscal trajectory, but it’s the principle of the thing: over the years, endless […]
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...
An audit requested by GOP lawmakers shows Illinois Gov. Pritzker’s administration grossly underestimated the $1.6 billion price tag for state health programs for illegal immigrants.
Hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees on probationary status were fired Thursday, lawmakers and weather experts said.
Imagine a government where citizens face limited autonomy, strict hierarchies, and personal monitoring by a superior, where a routine is mandated for those on the lower rungs of the social order to follow. In this system, supervisors operate with unchecked power, often issuing arbitrary orders that may change without notice or opportunity for appeal. Subordinates, […]