A defiant President-elect Donald Trump received his no-jail sentence Friday in a surreal and historic hearing just days before his return to Washington as the leader of the free world.

What’s the worst job imaginable? Slaughterhouse worker, World Trade Center window washer, or Facebook fact-checker might come to mind, but that onerous burden really falls on Thomas Hutter, the real estate agent tasked with selling a castle to a vampire in Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu, a haunting remake of the century-old silent classic Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror. The […]

Proponents of the Domino Theory convinced the public to support military intervention in Vietnam. But the fall of Vietnam did not lead to a communist sweep of Southeast Asia. In the end, more than 58,000 American soldiers were lost in a conflict based on a faulty premise. Iraq War boosters cast a similar spell over […]

The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson caused the media to highlight sensationalist negative stories about health insurers. One important fact these stories ignore is that older Americans increasingly choose private insurers to manage their Medicare benefits. These plans are called Medicare Advantage, and 54% of Medicare beneficiaries now opt for them. The Biden administration […]