Elections are often a study of something in between getting the election results we deserve and politicians misreading why their side won a big race, especially if…
Years ago, a friend of mine found himself in the ballroom of a run-down New Orleans hotel at a meeting for conspiracy theorists of President John F.…
Thanks to George Orwell, the year 1984 immediately conjures up unpleasant associations. But hindsight is, ahem, 2020, and those of us old enough to remember the year…
Farming groups, long hostile to policies that curb emissions, are seeking a spot at the table, rather than be on the menu, as President-elect Joe Biden eyes…
The new season of The Crown, Netflix’s peerless depiction of the second Elizabethan age, contains exactly one sympathetic character. Michael Fagan, an out-of-work painter on the verge…
Putting aside the fact that almost anything with Aubrey Plaza is worth watching, Lawrence Michael Levine’s Black Bear seems at first glance like a film one can…
Foxconn, the electronics manufacturer, was recently hit with a ransomware attack, with hackers demanding $34 million to restore data in a Mexican facility. The attackers reportedly attacked…
Challenger Lauren Barnes had 1,502 votes at the end of election night, putting her painfully close to incumbent Gail Lyons, who had 1,558 in the two-woman race…
A car explodes, bullets riddle their target. It’s unclear which happens first, but the end result is the death of the godfather of Iran’s nuclear weapons program…
And so another presidency is about to begin amid scandal. This one, involving Joe Biden’s son Hunter, seems to be an improvement on the last in that…
