My first Music Notes of the year, after a bit of a holiday layoff, when I wasn't listening to a whole lot of new music or seeing shows. Let's get this off the ground for 2026. While flying to Asia at the end of December, I...
From the other sideof the federal judiciary. You know, the judicial side: On Saturday, as this longest of months comes to a close, a federal judge in Texas granted a writ of.
On the Supreme Court, the two most consistent Trump lackeys were actually nominated by one of the Georges Bush, as was the justice who wrote the worst opinion aggrandizing his.
Luca considers the week's events. It’s hard to believe that it’s only a week since CBP killed Alex Pretti. Around Wednesday, I became confused whether it had been last Saturday or a week earlier. Donald Trump is throwing a lot of stuff against the wall. Trump...
Well here's a real pick me up: You know what Kids Today have trouble sitting through, in a college class on films? Akira Mizuta Lippit, a cinema and media-studies professor.
This is the grave of Karl Bendetsen. Born in 1907 into a Jewish immigrant family in Aberdeen, Washington, Bendetsen would......not really take the lessons of his family fleeing anti-Semitism to.
Oh dear: Somehow, Elon Musk’s infamous outburst accusing Donald Trump of being in the Epstein files has managed to age both incredibly well and incredibly poorly. Trump, as you’re probably well aware by now, has featured quite a bit in the DOJ’s ongoing releases of documents from its...
The table is set for another war with Iran. President Trump sharply intensified his threats against Iran on Wednesday, suggesting that if it did not agree to a set of.
The second bite of the sour apple got the flagrant First Amendment violation Trump wanted: In what appears to be a major escalation, President Trump’s federal agents arrested journalist Don.
Krugman summarizes the downside risk of Kevin Warsh, who in the best case scenario will be ineffectual: So Kevin Warsh will be the next Fed chair. The silver lining to his appointment is that he shouldn’t be able to do much damage, although with one big...
Well this is horrible. Catherine O’Hara, the comedian best known for her roles in “Home Alone,” “Schitt’s Creek” and “Beetlejuice,” and as a member of the influential Canadian sketch comedy.
An employee at Los Alamos National Laboratory prepares to cast plutonium. DOE Photo Next week, on February 5, the last of the historic nuclear arms control agreement lapses. The New.