MOBILE, Alabama — For the fifth straight mayoral election in this port city, Mobilians on Aug. 24 showed that people (even supposedly antediluvian Southerners!) are discerning enough…
Nine Days, the first feature-length film from Brazilian writer-director Edson Oda, is a movie that forces the viewer to ask the big questions. Why are we here?…
All eyes remain fixed on Afghanistan as the Biden administration continues its disastrous, haphazard withdrawal of American troops and personnel from the country and its capital, Kabul.…
It is a measure of the fame Cyril Ramon Newton once enjoyed that even though he was immortalized with a cocktail that bore his name, now, nearly…
The factional politics animating congressional Democrats’ attempt to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill and a budget resolution for a larger reconciliation bill have stoked the perennial debate…
Loathe as we are to take the bait on White House efforts to distract from the horrors of the Afghanistan crisis it created, U.S. Army Capt. Erin…
There is an imagined old guard of historians who worship Edward Gibbon, speak to each other in Latin quotations, and ceaselessly debate the careers of dead white…
Official language is always going to be stilted because it is written by a committee, and each of the various stakeholders (see?) who produce any officialese must…
The first NATO summit of President Joe Biden’s administration — convened even as the resurgent Taliban encircled Afghan cities, no longer defended by U.S. and coalition forces…
When you send an email to someone on vacation, you often get a rather smug and self-satisfied autoresponse, usually something like: “I am on vacation for the…
