“So what is to stop the FBI from arresting you just like they did Steve Baker?” my wife asked with a pensive expression on her face. She has a point. I advocate many more “incendiary” ideas from the FBI’s perspective than my colleague Baker does. Sure, he was at the Capitol on January 6. But let’s be honest: We all know the Justice Department is prosecuting him for what he is reporting, not for what he did or didn’t do that afternoon three years ago. This is dead serious. Now that...
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Political power is not a toy. It is not a trophy awarded to the winner of the debate club. Power is a game, but it is the game of kings. It is chess, not checkers. If you intend to play the game, you had better come with a serious strategy and the will to win, because you can bet the other side is playing for keeps.For too long, conservatives have engaged in politics as if it were professional football, something to watch for entertainment while sitting on the couch so you can complain about...
Good times for a change! Deftones' set Friday at Coachella included a cover
I don’t want to feel shamed into playing this party-scorekeeping game when I create my guest list.
An AI program can learn from smartphone users' behaviours in order to send timely pop-up reminders about when to close attention-grabbing apps. The system effectively reduced how often people opened apps such as TikTok
PHOENIX -- It was déjà vu all over again. Again. Last September, the Cubs visited Arizona for a series of wild, consequential games. In one, Chicago nearly rallied from down six runs in the ninth inning. In another, the two teams traded extra-inning blows until Arizona finally prevailed in the
There's one reason we still know the name Molly Ringwald 30-plus years after her first burst of fame. John Hughes. Ringwald co-starred in the writer/director's 'The Breakfast Club' (1985) and headlined both 'Sixteen Candles' (1984) and 'Pretty in Pink' 1986), three seminal films from the Reagan Era. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRLQUGq8eE8 The now 56-year-old actress has been trashing the Hughes canon ever since. What makes it worse is that Hughes can no longer defend himself or his signature...
By Amanda Mannen Published: April 12th, 2024
Péter Magyar building centrist movement that has visibly shaken ruling party he dramatically broke withA political newcomer who is causing headaches for Hungary’s government has said his experience as a regime insider can help him succeed where other opposition figures have failed, citing his “crazy” rise in the polls and “vision” as signs that change is possible.Fourteen years after the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, returned to power and put the country on an illiberal path, some...
China's Xi Jinping spoke of a ‘family reunion’ with Taiwan when he met with a former Taiwanese president. Beijing has threatened to use force to reabsorb the democracy.
A recent Guardian news story on the Russian use of poison gas in Ukraine featured an arresting photograph that spoke to me of the anonymity of warThis photograph of a gas mask on a tree beside a track in Kreminna in Ukraine’s Luhansk oblast stopped me in my tracks.The original caption in the Guardian reads “tree” but it looks like the remains of a tree, more like a planted post. Has the rest of it – the parts that make it a tree – been damaged by war? Whatever the explanation there is a hint, in...