Lawmakers are ready to push for new privacy rules. They’re serious this time, several senators said during a recent hearing. While federal data privacy legislation failed to…
When Democrats locked in control of both the White House and Congress by a razor-thin margin, attentive voters might have reasonably assumed that the party would govern…
How boring is the celebration when its final and most prestigious award recipient refuses to so much as FaceTime in to thank the guests? Well, the numbers…
The literary form of the essay in English is something almost everyone does a very poor job thinking about, because most people’s defining thoughts about it are…
President Joe Biden mentioned bipartisanship only three times in his 8,000-word joint address to Congress, and the bulk of his speech was dedicated to achievements and proposals…
Barring a slowdown in our vaccination campaign or the emergence of an India-style mutation of the coronavirus, this pandemic will in all likelihood reach its conclusion sooner…
Years ago, I wrote a script, and the big note I got back from the network and the studio was, “Can the main character be a little…
HBO Max’s new half-hour series, Made for Love, is a peculiar creature. Too absurd to be a drama, too spineless to work as satire, the program shuffles…
At the Academy Awards this weekend, only one actress was willing to address the sore subject that all of Hollywood has spent the past year avoiding: the…
