When the Trump administration announced its Most Favored Nation policy, it was portrayed as a simple, sensible idea. Drug companies were supposed to lower prices for Americans to match the lower prices paid by other nations. But industry analysts and economists warn that the policy is making it harder for smaller firms to compete while […]

The war between the United States, Israel, and Iran has yielded a significant amount of uncertainty, but it may also have produced an unalloyed and unprecedented good: peace between Israel and Lebanon, its neighbor to the north. On Thursday, April 16, President Donald Trump announced that a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon was to take effect […]

When it comes to foundational movie genres, we are told that the Western is dead and the romantic comedy is on life support, but the horror movie is alive, well, and, er, presumably bleeding. The modern entrants in this genre may not be good or even well-made, but enough of them still become hits to […]

Peacock’s new sci-fi series The Miniature Wife is an arch-feminist revision of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), with exactly that film’s gravitas and moral sophistication. But wait! Is it possible that this derivative goofball dramedy is actually fun? Through its charmless first episode, the answer is a hard “no.” The series stars Matthew Macfadyen […]