In March, the Broadway premiere of Good Night, and Good Luck, co-written by and starring George Clooney, will debut at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York. As Playbill explains, “a work of historical drama, Good Night, and Good Luck centers on a clash between famed journalist Edward R. Murrow and infamous U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, of anti-communist HUAC fame.” “Edward R. Murrow operated […]
The Republican budget voted out of committee this week purports to spend $4.6 trillion in fiscal 2025, which ends Sept. 30. If accurate, the budget passed by Senate Republicans would appear to be about $800 billion less than last year. Should we celebrate? Before anyone pops a cork of champagne, we should remember that the federal […]
On Nov. 28, 2024, Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party announced the suspension of the country’s European Union accession process until 2028 — a move widely viewed as a betrayal of the nation’s long-standing aspirations to join Western alliances. Within an hour of the announcement, protesters flooded Tbilisi’s central thoroughfare in defiance of what they saw […]
The Department of Education is warning state education departments that they could lose federal funding unless they remove diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
New York City mayor Eric Adams plans to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration after it revoked more than $80 million in funding for migrant shelters.
After the Democratic Party's setbacks to Trump and Republicans in the 2024 elections, a new national poll indicates Democrats increasingly want their party to move toward the center.
President Donald Trump and his administration are working to negotiate an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine, and everything else that happened his fourth week in his second administration.
Paper straws may seem a picayune issue for President Donald Trump to take on in his first month in office amid a migrant crisis, stubborn inflation, and multiple international conflagrations. Doesn’t Trump have something more important to attend to? It’s a fair question. But we have a prior question: Were not paper straws a picayune […]
The Agriculture Department has terminated nearly 80 contracts after a review by Elon Musk's DOGE, including for a Brazilian forest and gender consultant.