A Huge Escalation in Trump’s Smithsonian Meddling

The buff George Washington statue in the National Museum of American History speaks for itself. Taking in the washboard abs and determined expression of the 1840 work by Horatio Greenough,…

FIFA Is a Cautionary Tale for Trump

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With Graham Platner, Democrats Got Drunk on the Beer Test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53bZ_95nDjk Last September, the progressive strategist Morris Katz confessed to The New Yorker that the process by which he decided Graham Platner was qualified to run for U.S. Senate required…

A Sad Kind of Convenience

When I was 16, I did something I’m embarrassed to admit: I waited in a long line to buy a video game called Assassin’s Creed III. Over the past few…

A Very Bad Call

The only thing more riling than a referee’s interference in a sports event is a politician’s. How to kill America’s goodwill in the World Cup: Wave a “red card” under…

The Death of Renee Good Has Yet to Be Properly Investigated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj1FlJiRsDE Nearly six months have passed since federal officers shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti on the streets of Minneapolis. No one has been arrested, the Trump administration…

The Military Pete Hegseth Wants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wDhfh6H8a8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts One month after his return to office, President…

Philip Glass' new symphony premieres at Tanglewood after Kennedy Center cancellation

Philip Glass’ newest symphony, an homage to Abraham Lincoln, was supposed to premiere at the Kennedy Center — until it didn’t. And then, the Boston Symphony Orchestra stepped in. (Image…

An Awful Day at Work … In a Fantasy Epic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO1S9o1u3II The following article contains spoilers through Season 3, Episode 3 of House of the Dragon. Halfway through the latest episode of House of the Dragon, the freshly crowned Rhaenyra…

The Age of the Trillionaire

Robert Morris migrated from England to the American colonies as a teenager and established himself in the mercantile industry. During the Revolutionary War, his trading ships attacked British vessels and…