The Senate will vote next week on a $110 billion national security package sought by President Biden that includes new border security provisions and aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, after months of negotiations on the contentious issue.
The failed campaign and expansive political operation aiming to make Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis the Republican nominee for the White House cost $168 million, according to filings reported to the Federal Election Commission late Wednesday.
New York Republicans scored a victory on Thursday when a House panel advanced a bill that would allow some married couples to deduct more of last year's state and local taxes, but only after staging a minor rebellion against Speaker Mike Johnson.
Immigration has emerged as a dominant point of debate heading into the 2024 presidential election. Like so much of our discourse, there is more heat than light surrounding the matter. And yet the facts of the case are remarkably clear. After President Joe Biden suspended many of his predecessor Donald Trump’s enforcement mechanisms, millions of […]
A friend of mine told me that when he was younger, he misheard the word “centimillionaire” and thought it was “scented millionaire.” As misunderstandings go, that one makes a certain amount of sense. The phrase “scented millionaire” conjures up a powdered and cosseted rich guy, someone who is sure to have a net worth in […]
Fifteen years ago, the world of streaming used to be a simple place. You could pay $9.99 a month to Netflix or Hulu and open the door to a vast array of primarily archival content. At the time, this was a veritable Library of Alexandria of licensed content in which the original rights holders had […]
When HBO debuted Band of Brothers in 2001, it was an event — prestige television’s answer to the question, “What if Saving Private Ryan were 10 hours long and based on the experiences of real people?” Executive-produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg and based on a bestselling book by Stephen Ambrose, the miniseries followed […]
The premise of I.S.S. is intriguing. Six astronauts on the International Space Station, three American and three Russian, watch in horror as the world below descends into nuclear war. Both crews receive separate orders from their governments to seize control of the station from the other “by any means necessary.” The orders disrupt the station’s […]
There have been several farcical fictional treatments of university life in the United States over the past couple of decades. The 2021 Netflix series The Chair, revolving around Jay Duplass’s disillusioned English professor who finds himself canceled after performing an illustrative Nazi salute during a lecture, was at its most interesting when it abandoned the […]
Certain readers consider themselves guardians of the canon and refuse to class crime stories as literature, filing these books away out of sight in that baggy, catch-all category of genre fiction. There is, to be sure, the bad crime novel, or the run-of-the-mill offering, which relies too much on plot and pace. But there is […]