What, if they could screen it, would Paul Thomas Anderson’s earlier characters make of Licorice Pizza, the writer-director’s ninth feature film and the frothiest ode to mercantilism…
Of course Macbeth is a Coen brothers movie. The Scottish play is essentially a caper: A criminal plot is hatched and executed, kind of like in Raising…
The ruptures in the fabric of America’s culture can be traced on the year-end sales logs of a German automaker. Volkswagen sold very few Passats, Jettas, and…
President Joe Biden has shed his reluctance to alter Senate rules on the filibuster as his political standing has diminished and his legislative agenda has stalled. Biden…
Last November, Russia launched a PL19 Nudol interceptor missile targeting a long-out-of-service Soviet-era Cosmos 1408 satellite orbiting 300 miles above the Earth and blew it to smithereens.…
Chapter one of Mark Schrad’s new book opens with a gut-wrenching episode of state brutality. It’s 1859 in Spassk, Russia, and the tsar himself has dispatched the…
Chuck Schumer, too, spent 40 years in the wilderness. But unlike Moses, he made it to the promised land. Barely. After his party failed to recapture the…
‘Resistance’ spin doctors President Joe Biden’s press conference last week was an unmitigated disaster, as evidenced by the astounding number of “clarifications” and walk backs issued later…
Researchers at Pfizer and BioNTech said they believe they can make an even better vaccine for shingles using promising messenger RNA technology perfected in their COVID-19 shots.…
Californians were promised a high-speed rail train that could get a person from Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than three hours. Instead, they’re stuck with…
