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All eyes should be on Al Jazeera for being founded, funded — and directed — by terrorists

Last month, The Washington Post reported darkly that the Israeli government had shut down the Al Jazeera network’s operations in Israel because of its...

Appeals court panel refuses to delay Steve Bannon’s 4-month prison sentence

A federal appeals court panel on Thursday rejected longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon's bid to stay out of prison while he fights his conviction for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the U.S. Capitol attack.

Trump dwarfs Biden in latest fundraising numbers in show of political force after felony convictions

Donald Trump's campaign outraised President Joe Biden by more than $60 million last month, according to federal filings made public Thursday that detailed the Republican fundraising explosion sparked by Trump's felony convictions.

Trump proposes automatic green cards for foreign graduates of U.S. colleges

Former President Donald Trump said in an interview posted on Thursday he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges, a sharp departure from the anti-immigrant rhetoric he typically uses on the campaign trail.

Who are the Tony Awards for?

It may also come as a surprise to the relatives, friends, and roommates whom I’ve forced to watch the Tony Awards over the years that this year I didn’t watch until this magazine’s editor asked me to write about the awards show. But while I remain as steadfast a theater lover as ever, I just […]

Biden keeps bungling the border: What sounds good in Washington looks much worse in Texas

Since President Joe Biden took office, there have been two competing accounts of what is going on with the immigration process and the southern border. The first, via the Biden administration, is that everything is more or less under control — there has just been a slight uptick of migrants entering the country. The view […]

Any given Tuesday

Cultural decline can be measured in a thousand different ways, but surely one of them is the way in which the figure of Death is personified in the movies.  In 1957, Ingmar Bergman’s classic film The Seventh Seal offered Death in the form of a blank-faced man who wears a flowing black robe, speaks in […]

Jubilees shouldn’t mean jail time

Acceptance of a freakish gift of nature shouldn’t be grounds for a civil penalty, much less a jail stint. Yet that’s what happened June 12 in Point Clear, Alabama, when over-officious game wardens began ticketing people for scooping up seafood from a “jubilee.” The eastern shore of Mobile Bay is the only place in the […]

Biden administration bans Kaspersky software over Russian ties

The Biden administration is issuing a total ban on the use of Kaspersky Lab’s software over its ties to Russia. The company’s software has been a concern of the U.S. government since at least 2017 because of the Russian government’s alleged influence over the software. The Russian government has total access to Kaspersky systems and...

Schwarzenegger: ‘Climate change dialogue’ not going to work

Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) said that the traditional “climate change dialogue” is not going to work anymore, particularly when it comes to high-polluting countries. Schwarzenegger joined MSNBC’s Jonathan Lemire on Thursday to discuss clean energy and climate solutions. Lemire asked “The Terminator” star how he would try to reach bigger polluters...

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