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Senate, House headed for showdown over defense bill

Sen. Roger Wicker secured a crucial House-Senate conference for the National Defense Authorization Act amid looming deadlines, potentially shaping crucial military policies.

Experts raise alarm after Biden strikes agreement with China to shut down fossil fuels

Energy experts are raising the alarm on the Biden administration's agreement with China to shut down fossil fuel power in favor of green energy in the coming years.

Biden admin says it can revoke visas of Hamas supporters as Republicans urge action

The Biden administration says it has "broad" authority to be able to revoke the visas of those foreign nationals who support terrorist groups like Hamas.

Could evangelical leader’s endorsement upend Trump’s massive lead before Iowa’s caucus?

The leader of the Family Leader, a top Iowa evangelical group, is likely to endorse in the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race, where Trump remains the commanding front-runner.

Romanticizing terror

Jamal El-Haj is a Social Democratic member of Parliament for Malmö, Sweden’s third-biggest city. In 2018, he called Israel an “apartheid state.” Rather than censure him, Magdalena Andersson, the Social Democratic prime minister, appointed El-Haj to the foreign affairs committee. Before we laugh too hard at the wacky Scandi socialists, remember that House Democrats did much the same with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in January 2023.

If only The Killer were silent

In a country in which individualism sometimes seems to blot out all other values, it was perhaps inevitable that our movie screens were for so long dominated by solemn, solitary Western stars. During the first half of the last century, audiences embraced the meanness of John Wayne, the pinched reserve of Randolph Scott, the enigmatic ambivalence of Clint Eastwood, and the inscrutable heroism of Alan Ladd. The public understood that these men’s antisocial qualities were inseparable from their guts and professionalism.

Big alcohol vs. affordable weddings

Any time you see the words “bipartisan overhaul creating new regulations,” you know that some well-connected lobbyists just scored a major win.

The subtlety of A Murder at the End of the World

The work of Brit Marling, the screenwriter and actress behind Netflix’s 2016 puzzle box The OA, can only be described as interestingly flawed. That series, her debut as a showrunner, was a saga of dimension-hopping and imprisonment, co-starring Phyllis from The Office and featuring a school shooting thwarted by synchronized dance. And that’s barely scratching the surface of its weirdness. That Marling was the creative force behind the cult-hit films Sound of My Voice and Another Earth (both 2011) merely adds to her intrigue. Like all artists with a slightly too specific vision, Marling produces content that repels and entices in equal measure. Yet it’s hard not to think she could create something thrilling if she aimed only a little more broadly.

May God have mercy on your Achilles

Mockery has followed Megan Rapinoe’s comments, but she deserves some grace as well.

Supreme Court’s new ethics code won’t stifle cynical leftist attacks

Now that a unanimous Supreme Court has issued a formal code of conduct for itself, its leftist critics should stop jawboning against the bench as though it were a haven for corruption.

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