You can't just shut down a city's beating heart for the arts for two years, especially in times of turmoil. People should hear a Brahms symphony, played live in a concert hall, to feel alive again. Make that a capital city's shimmering marble center by the riverside, with a terrace. It packs ...
The entertainment awards shows used to be wildly popular on TV before the audience shattered into a thousand pieces. When a celebrity decided to make a pompous political statement, it was memorable — like in 1973, when Marlon Brando sent an Indian activist named Sacheen Littlefeather to ...
In the months before the April 12, 1861, firing on Fort Sumter, there were lots of sharp divisions in the North about the proper reaction to the first seven Confederate states that had already left the Union. Not all Unionists believed that war was inevitable. Some, in fact, were happy to be ...
The U.S. makes artificial intelligence chips so special, so advanced, that the Biden administration limited their export for national security reasons. They didn't want them to get into the hands of China or Russia. But days before Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term, go-betweens for ...
We deserve a Congresswoman like Callie Barr Dear Editor, NY Times Columnist David Brooks said goodbye to his column on January 30th. He wrote a final column on his departure and it is a good read. I was particularly struck by this hopeful passage, “I still believe we’re driven not only by the selfish motivations but also by the moral ones — the desire to pursue some good, the desire to cooperate, to care for one another and to belong. Life is about movement, and the flourishing life is the same eternal thing, some man or woman striving and struggling in service to some ideal.” ...
Alex Pretti wasn't killed while "protesting." This is a common description of what he was doing on a Minneapolis street the fateful morning when a confrontation with federal immigration agents ended in his tragic shooting. But if Pretti had been a mere protester, he'd very likely be alive ...
