Recent events have made me, like many Americans in 2025, really desperate for a laugh. Naturally, I regarded the new Naked Gun as a potential laugh-bonanza and went to see it immediately. And I laughed...
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Review of La Meute: Enquête sur la France Insoumise de Jean-Luc Mélenchon by Charlotte Belaïch and Olivier Pérou (Flammarion, 2025) In late summer 2023, the Parti Socialiste MP Laurent Baumel was sitting with Jean-Luc Mélenchon,...
After Delta Air Lines faced public backlash for expanding its use of artificial intelligence (AI) to set fares for passengers, the airline sent a letter to federal lawmakers on Friday denying that it uses “personalized...
Donald Trump is winning the tariff war — sort of. Last spring, new Canadian prime minister and former central banker (and Goldman Sachs alum) Mark Carney declared that nearly a century of American-led global economic...
To try and understand how bad things are in Gaza, you have to think about all the people you grew up with and came to know: your mom and dad and siblings, but also your...
Review of The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong (Penguin, 2025) Deindustrialization in the Northeast spawned a service sector that didn’t quite match up to the offerings of the old, manufacturing-based economy. The resulting lower...
A century ago, Milwaukee’s “sewer socialists” were ridiculed for focusing on pipes, drains, and parks. These were small-bore projects, detractors claimed, and unworthy of political struggle. But mayors Emil Seidel and Frank Zeidler knew better:...
For the first time, Israeli soldiers were detained and questioned in Europe over alleged war crimes in Gaza. After nearly ten months of tracking Israeli soldiers abroad, the Hind Rajab Foundation and the Global Legal...
The parallels between a northern Arkansas group that is seeking to forbid Jews and people of color from buying on their adjacent tracts of land and Zionism are more significant than you might think. An...
The Trump Justice Department is embroiled in a corporate coup attempt, exposing major rifts within the GOP coalition and a rampant culture of pay-to-play corruption. The graft reaches the highest levels of the agency, resulting in the ouster...
In 1954, Walt Disney was struggling to imagine tomorrow. Disneyland was set to open the following year and would be divided according to four themes: Fantasyland, Adventureland, Frontierland, and Tomorrowland. While there was plenty of...
At the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell in 2021, a woman identified in court records as Jane Doe #3 testified that she’d met the defendant, and Maxwell’s longtime boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein, “in between classes at Interlochen...
