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Goat summer: It’s the greatest of all time

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia — They say what makes a neighborhood great is the people. That’s true most of the time. But sometimes it’s not the people. Sometimes, it’s the goats. We moved to Falls Church, Virginia, this summer, and in our first weeks there, our backyard hosted a parade of neighborhood kids and occasionally their […]

Phillip Lopate and greatness of criticism with no authority

Two years ago, I cast my ballot for the 10 greatest films ever made in the last installment of the celebrated Sight and Sound magazine poll. To my credit, I did not vote for Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, the tedious feminist tract that displaced both Citizen Kane and Vertigo. Yet I […]

The Olympic athletes are great fun to watch. Finding the right ways to watch them isn’t

The Olympics are supposed to be the ultimate showcase of human athletic achievement. But in 2024, they’ve become something else: a welter of apps, streams, and time-shifted events that leaves even dedicated sports fans scratching their heads. Navigating the maze of NBC‘s Peacock app, with its various tiles for “Primetime in Paris,” “Late Night,” and […]

Tornadobilly elegy

The new disaster film Twisters has been described as a “stand-alone sequel” by its producers. Meaning, I guess, that it is not a sequel to 1996’s cult classic Twister in the sense that its events do not continue from those in the previous film, nor is it a “reboot” that rehashes the same events. Rather, […]

New Harris ad highlights ‘working class’ upbringing

The Harris campaign on Friday launched a new ad in battleground states highlighting the vice president’s upbringing in an effort to appeal to middle class voters. The ad, titled “Knows,” notes that Harris grew up in a “working class home,” was the daughter of a working mom and worked at McDonald’s while she got her...

Progressive women’s groups silent on second gentleman Doug Emhoff’s affair

Progressive women's groups, including EMILYs List, did not respond to Fox News Digital's inquiry about second gentleman Doug Emhoff's past affair affecting his image as a leader.

Minnesota riots continued after Walz took ‘responsibility to ensure’ there wouldn’t be chaos

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz claimed "responsibility to ensure" riots in Minneapolis would be curbed in 2020 after the death of George Floyd during an interaction with police.

Walz pick does little to persuade Dearborn’s anti-Biden/Harris voters

Vice President Harris' decision to tap Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as running mate has not tipped the scales in her favor among Arab-American voters in Dearborn, Michigan.

The Harris-Walz threat to the First Amendment

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) may have been a social studies teacher, but he would have failed Constitutional Law 101, especially the part about the First Amendment. “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech and especially around our democracy,” Walz said on MSNBC in December 2022, which would be news to the […]

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