2014—President Jimmy Carter’s sorry judicial legacy lives on. Thirty-five years after his appointment by Carter, 90-year-old Ninth Circuit judge Harry Pregerson—still in regular (rather...
It’s been a tough year for Hollywood. Hit by the aftershocks of the writers strike and the pandemic-accelerated shift toward streaming, box office revenues through June were down 19% from last year. Cinephiles usually care little about ticket sales, but the industry’s woes do have tangible effects on the moviegoing experience. Cinema is meant to […]
This is the headline you never saw: “Famine averted in Gaza; Israel and UN facilitate surge of humanitarian aid.” The news is true, anchored in data collected by the leading global authority on food shortages. But the media told a different story, with a typical headline declaring, “Half a million in Gaza face starvation, report says.” One might […]
The demonization of Anthony Fauci suggests that partisan polarization, contempt for expertise, coarseness, cruelty and a cultish propensity for conspiracy theories and violence have entered the mainstream of America.
Tropical Storm Beryl is forecast to re-strengthen into a hurricane and make landfall on the Texas coast in the early hours of Monday morning, bringing dangerous conditions to the U.S. after it hammered parts of Mexico. Much of the Texas coast was put under a hurricane warning Sunday. The National Hurricane Center warned of “life-threatening...