Former President Donald Trump faces a mountain of legal woes, but his most ardent supporters at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference say they're all a hoax and it won't slow down his candidacy.
President Biden met with the wife and daughter of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny Thursday ahead of an announcement of major new U.S. sanctions against Moscow on Friday.
The “Kissinger question” may never have been asked. The popular story goes that when Henry Kissinger was secretary of state, he was frustrated by the poor coordination between the United States’s European allies and asked, “Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe?” No one can recall Kissinger saying this, including Kissinger […]
Don’t you hate it when things are in places they aren’t supposed to be? Bikers on car roads, 80-year-old men in the White House, or … children in parks? Arlington, Massachusetts, has diagnosed such a “problem,” as residents have complained that too many preschool and day care children are using the park. The city has […]
When Michael Puglia first bought his Ford F-150 Lightning in July, he loved it. “It’s unbelievably fast and responsive,” Puglia told reporters. “The technology is amazing.” But as summer turned to fall and then to winter, Puglia changed his tune. He noticed that a 35-mile trip to an ice rink dropped the estimated range on […]
With “deepfakes” and generative artificial intelligence improving exponentially, the internet may soon become filled with more thoroughly convincing lies than ever before. What new dangers will arise? Who will protect us? “As AI-generated deepfakes are being used to spread false information in elections around the world,” NPR reported in February, “policymakers, tech companies and governments are trying to […]
The Jazz Age may have ended in 1929, according to F. Scott Fitzgerald, who called it an age of miracles, an age of art, an age of excess — one that once people lost confidence, “it didn’t take long for the flimsy structure to settle earthward.” However, according to social historian Michael Wolraich, there was […]
It goes without saying that Abraham Lincoln was one of America’s greatest presidents. The strengths he brought to the job included intelligence, inspired leadership, unmatched rhetorical power, and a steady hand in dire times. No political leader is perfect, of course. Lincoln made mistakes during his astonishing journey from a small log cabin near Hodgenville, […]
Seven decades on from his death, George Orwell is alive and well in publishing. Last year alone saw a slew of new releases about the man and his fictive worlds. There was Orwell: The New Life, a second and now definitive biography by Orwell authority D.J. Taylor. Masha Karp’s George Orwell and Russia explored the […]