The Epstein reckoning hits the campaign trail
Salonby Grace Panetta21d ago
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top 90%Trump’s arch now comes with snipers
Salonby CK Smith21d ago
President Donald Trump has found a new purpose for the massive triumphal arch he wants to build near Arlington National Cemetery: national security.
Trump thinks AI needs its own "Force" now
Salonby CK Smith21d ago
President Donald Trump is going all-in on artificial intelligence, dismissing growing concerns over AI and data centers as politically motivated “hoaxes” while promising that his administration...
Pete Hegseth declares war — on his own troops
Salonby Gregory A. Daddis21d ago
It should come as no surprise that wars break armies. The chaotic, destructive nature of battle tends to wound even the most highly trained armed forces. Today, however, the U.S.
The $18 jarred pasta sauce era is here
Salonby Ashlie D. Stevens21d ago
My grandmother’s baked spaghetti came in slabs, which was part of its charm. Hot from the oven, they sagged dramatically over the edge of a spatula, held together mainly by a web of browned...
Susie Wiles is Trump's chief enabler
Salonby Heather Digby Parton22d ago
There are always power centers in any White House. Certain people have their own little fiefdoms or specific knowledge of how government bureaucracy works, which gives them a leg up in internecine...
Vance's "Frankenstein" AI defense is a blueprint for 2028
Salonby Alex Galbraith22d ago
There’s something about JD Vance that makes him almost impossible to assess. Like Bigfoot, he’s a naturally blurry creature.
Court squashes Reese's faceless pumpkin lawsuit
Salonby CK Smith22d ago
With Halloween coming up, there’s no need to worry that you won’t get any pumpkin-shaped chocolate and peanut butter candy in your trick-or-treat basket.
Trump escalates media fight with new White House press ban
Salonby CK Smith22d ago
The White House began enforcing President Donald Trump‘s ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico Saturday, denying reporters from all three news organizations access to the White House grounds and...
"Fjord" tests whether we can ever stay objective
Salonby Coleman Spilde22d ago
Few things in movies happen by coincidence, and fewer still in a film so self-conscious as Cristian Mungiu’s “Fjord.” The Romanian filmmaker’s stoic drama is designed to provoke viewers in opposite...
Trump touts "Infinite Life" deal with Greenland
Salonby CK Smith22d ago
President Donald Trump celebrated a new security agreement with Denmark and Greenland as an “Infinite Life” deal that gives the United States “permanent control” over security on the Arctic island...
Kathy Griffin still won't stay silent
Salonby Melanie McFarland23d ago
Kathy Griffin apologizes in advance for all the noise. On the day we connected by phone, she expected a lot of activity in her Malibu home, including air-conditioning repairers and the usual four...
Trump's Iran war has economists aghast
Salonby Troy Farah23d ago
America and Israel’s ongoing war against Iran has sunk the global economy so deeply in the mire that economists are now seemingly throwing down their pencils in frustration.
Tyrants have a playbook for avoiding blame. Trump follows it
Salonby Andrea Mazzarino23d ago
In my decades as a cultural anthropologist studying authoritarianism in Russia and the United States, I’ve learned that one of power’s most useful tricks is making responsibility vanish.
Top oversight Dem opens investigation of Donald Trump Jr.’s Russian oligarch-funded wedding
Salonby Alex Mierjeski23d ago
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee launched an investigation into Donald Trump Jr.’s relationship with a Russian oligarch who paid for much of Trump Jr.’s wedding earlier this year.
Trump bans CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House “effective immediately"
Salonby Troy Farah23d ago
In a Truth Social post that used that phrase “fake news” three times, President Donald Trump said he was “proud to announce” that CNN, MS NOW and Politico are banned from the White House “effective...
The TikTok tradwife tainted by an Andrew Tate connection
Salonby Melanie McFarland23d ago
The virality of “I Met the Tradwife Who Thinks Women Shouldn’t Vote,” Ben Zand’s documentary profile of far-right influencer Savanna Stone, can be explained by one chef’s kiss moment early in its...
Duncan Sheik wasn't a one-hit wonder
Salonby Kelly McClure23d ago
Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter and composer best known for his earwormy ’90s hit, “Barely Breathing” and his composition of the Broadway musical, “Spring Awakening” — for which he won two...
The curious, unsolved case of “The Black Dahlia”
Salonby Melanie McFarland23d ago
Bad movies are a low-key passion of mine. This is no secret to my forbearing friends who slouched in theater seats next to me during, say, every Paul W. S.
"South Park" saw our food fights coming
Salonby Ashlie D. Stevens23d ago
Within the canon of adult animation,“The Simpsons” gets most of the credit for predicting the future, but “South Park” has at least one unnervingly good entry in the category.