All political eyes are on Virginia ahead of Tuesday’s high profile and crucial legislative elections, which are seen as a crucial bellwether ahead of the 2024 showdowns
Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, which have been under fire for their response to antisemitic events on campus, receive billions in federal funds, an analysis found.
Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy overemphasized the need to support Israel during its war against Hamas and said he does not support combining aid to Israel with Ukraine.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is facing criticism for having a financial portfolio similar to most Americans after his predecessors owned hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets.
Disney’s enormous TV and film production schedule often makes me wonder who its intended audience is. For decades, the answer would have been “children” or “families.” But Disney’s purchase of 21st Century Fox and its decision to take the Marvel and Star Wars franchises in darker directions means it is now making quite a lot that seems more geared for adults, including, most obviously, the R-rated Deadpool franchise.
When the celebrated country musician Hank Williams died on New Year’s Day in 1953 in a car on his way to a performance in Canton, Ohio, he had been traveling from Charleston, West Virginia, on U.S. Route 19, one of a series of north-south arteries that had conveyed millions of struggling Southern white people from Appalachia to new lives in the industrial Upper Midwest. This “Hillbilly Highway,” as historian Max Fraser calls it, was a dense network of interstate roads that couriered the job-seekers northward. It played a pivotal role in facilitating one of the most consequential migrations in American history.
“Even when we were kids, the term ‘child actor’ was shorthand for ‘future f---ed up adult,’” wrote actor Clint Howard, the rare child star to become a fully functioning adult, in his memoir The Boys, written with his brother, the equally productive director Ron. “Then as now, Hollywood is littered with cautionary tales.” The Howard siblings notwithstanding, a cursory glance at the history of show business reveals countless performers who charmed audiences as youths, fell into irrelevance as young adults, and drifted into disrepute, scandal, or otherwise sad outcomes.