Liberal advocacy groups called this week for the Senate Judiciary Committee to launch an investigation into Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. over his wife flying flags that critics say were connected to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
In late 1977, in the days before he suborned mass suicide in a Guyanese jungle, the Rev. Jim Jones tried to buoy the sagging spirits of his 900-plus homesick parishioners with a series of celebrity guest appearances, patched into the Jonestown encampment through a dodgy phone connection and an even dodgier PA system. Before migrating […]
There is a character in the Charles Portis novel The Dog of the South who follows a meticulous method anytime he orders a beer. He moistens each corner of the cocktail napkin it’s served with to anchor it to the bar. That way, the napkin doesn’t come up with the mug when he takes a […]
California Democrats do a good job of never learning from their own mistakes when mismanaging their state. Why would they bother learning from the mistakes of other states when running face-first into the same walls? California Democrats are pushing ahead with their plan to ban multiuse plastic bags at grocery stores after previously banning single-use […]
The White House is finalizing plans for a U.S.-Mexico border clampdown that would shut off asylum requests and automatically deny entrance to migrants once the number of people encountered by American border officials exceeded a new daily threshold, with President Joe Biden expected to sign an executive order as early as Tuesday, according to four people familiar with the matter.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday said politics were not part of the reason he brought criminal charges against former President Donald Trump.
Unlike the countless men whose careers were killed in the fury of the #MeToo movement, Morgan Spurlock didn’t just deny he had committed serial sex abuse and misconduct, he embraced the reality that he was “a part of the problem,” canceling himself in a shocking 2017 blog post in which he confessed to harassing subordinates […]
Some nerds in Silicon Valley decided years ago that dating needed to be reshaped so as to remove the risk of rejection. Now, in 2024, a norm is taking root that flirting is a microaggression if not sexual harassment. As a result, young men, afraid that approaching someone of the opposite sex in real life […]
In the Mad Max franchise he established in 1979 and continues to the present day, Australian filmmaker George Miller has demonstrated a rare command of movement across vast spaces. Arguably, no director — not even masters of the form like William Friedkin or John Frankenheimer — has wrung more sheer kinesis out of his chase […]