If I could buttonhole you for a moment, fellow citizen, to lament a general concern that may seem rather secondary amid the shrill noise of other pressing concerns. Have you also noticed it, the painful degradation of our cultural standards? How awfully elite that sounds! How cheese-tastingly, pearl-clutchingly, museum-board precious. Especially in a time of […]
On a cold January morning on the Boulevard de Sébastopol in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, four young African men in puffer coats are posted hoods-up at the four corners of the crossroads with the Boulevard Saint-Martin. Sentries for drug dealers, they scan the commuters emerging from the Métro and the McDonald’s, watch the alternating […]
There are certain films that look incredible — on paper. Those films are often put on the “Black List,” a register of the most-loved unproduced screenplays in Hollywood as determined by a survey of Hollywood machers. (Think the Associated Press and Coaches’ college football polls, but for people who earnestly say, “Let’s do lunch.”) Flight […]
If you live in California and want something to be done on time and within its budget, well, you should probably try doing it somewhere other than California. California has become a model of doing things as slowly and expensive as possible, and no issue so seemingly simple is immune from this. Rob Pyers, the […]
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Robert F. Kennedy, President Donald Trump's nominee for health and human services secretary, survives two heated confirmation hearings but still faces crucial Senate votes.
Patel squared off with Democrats for hours over his grand jury testimony in the special counsel probe, involvement with a J6 'inmate choir' and his previous remarks on QAnon.
Eighty years ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt uttered one of the most absurd lines in a presidential inaugural address, assuring the war-weary nation that “the great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward.” In fact, history has no sides or direction, and societies can both improve and decay. With mismanagement […]