Magazine - Life & Arts
How Finnish action film Sisu sums up our golden movie moment
For now, it is impossible to know what the citizens of the future will mean when they talk about “2020s movies.” The eye cannot see itself, and…
May 16, 2023
Foreign Policy
US air defense system sent to Ukraine is not your father’s anti-missile missile
There was a rush of excitement on the first Saturday in May when Ukraine reported that, for the first time, it was able to shoot down one…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Bob Odenkirk plays it down the middle in the TV series Lucky Hank
You can’t get any more “mittelmaßig,” or middling, as Thomas Mann would have described him, than Hank, the protagonist of the new show Lucky Hank. “Hank” is…
Magazine - Life & Arts
A burning dissent from overbearing environmental policy in the kitchen
The next thing you know, they’ll be banning the Blue Blazer. No, not the dark navy sport coat, but the cocktail for which the legendary 19th-century bartender,…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
DeSantis set for Nevada return to headline Basque fry GOP event
Las Vegas is a popular destination for candidates of both parties to collect campaign cash from high-rolling political contributors. But Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), while headed to…
Healthcare
Global health says coronavirus pandemic is over amid virus origin questions
After three long years, the COVID-19 global health emergency is over. So says the World Health Organization, which made that declaration on May 5. WHO is the…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Big Tech couldn’t target children online with impunity, under bipartisan Senate bill
In a bitterly divided Congress, expectations are low for enacting bipartisan legislation. But one matter, based on a bipartisan consensus that social media can be harmful to…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The sordid history of ‘earned media’ advertising
When Hal Roach Studios released the classic comedy Safety Last! in 1923, it knew it needed a big publicity splash to launch the picture. So it hired…
Beltway Confidential
If you can perform surgery on fetuses, then maybe they have value after all
“A procedure with two patients,” read the subheading of a CNN article about a groundbreaking surgery that took place in March. “For this surgery,” the report noted,…
Magazine - Obituary
Heather Armstrong, 1975-2023
Heather Armstrong, author and one of the pioneers of lifestyle blogging, and a woman who came to define the “mommy blogger” era of online content, died last…