In the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas assault on Israeli civilians, President Joe Biden showed sympathy and support for Israel. Even as news of that day’s horrors, including the death of 30 Americans, continued to come out, Biden’s sympathy and support was not shared across his administration. As the war reaches its six-month […]
There are few occasions in popular entertainment that are more promising, or more perilous, than the finale of a great television series. When done well, it provides resolution and closure. We understand that the characters have accomplished worthwhile things and built solid relationships but still have fresh opportunities before them — a new romance, a […]
It is difficult, 20 years on, to say which is more unlikely: that flip-flopping, wind-surfing, “Jinjis” Khan-pronouncing John Kerry came within an Ohio whisper of the White House or that Kerry’s rebuke proceeded in large part from a bevy of cheesed-off veterans. Politics change in two decades, of course, and my guess is that the […]
The journey begins with sweet-and-sour pork balls. A staple of Chinese take-away restaurants in 1970s England, these were school-age Fuchsia Dunlop’s introduction to the cuisine that would change her life. Or, more accurately, one of the cuisines. For in her new book, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food, Dunlop dispels the notion […]
Alex Garland’s Civil War isn’t the movie you might expect from its trailers, which portray the film as an action blockbuster set amid an apocalyptic near-future conflict between a loose confederation of Western states and the federal government in Washington, D.C. Don’t expect massive battles over American cities. The violence is brutal but mostly brief. […]
When asked to rank different forms of popular entertainment, modern culture critics might put professional wrestling somewhere between amateur pornography and dogfighting. Enjoyment of this grand tradition is liable to get you marked as a hopeless rube or even a symptom of malignant cultural pathologies. Right now, this takes the form of the analysis that […]
Progressives Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Cori Bush (D-Mo.) have formed a joint fundraising committee, Tlaib’s office confirmed to The Hill. The committee, dubbed “Sisters Saving Lives,” was filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Thursday. Tlaib and Bush, both members who have been critical of Israel's handling of the war against Hamas, started...
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has become the third tribal nation to ban South Dakota Kristi Noem (R) from its reservation land. On Wednesday, the Standing Rock Tribal Council voted to ban Noem from its land for “racially charged” comments she made at town halls events alleging that some tribal leaders are “personally benefitting” from...
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued a subpoena to a conservative legal advocate as a part of an ethics probe driven by reports of undisclosed gifts to some conservative Supreme Court justices, multiple outlets reported on Thursday. The committee sent the subpoena on Thursday to Leonard Leo, the co-chair...
The Chlamydia vaccine showed promising results in an early-stage clinical trial conducted by researchers in the U.K. and Denmark. The early phase of the research found the experimental vaccine to be safe. The study was conducted from 2020 through 2022 with individuals split between non-pregnant women and men, while none had chlamydia. The researchers examined...