At the start of Martin Scorsese’s 2019 documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story—a film whose opening title card reads conjuring the rolling thunder revue—magician Georges Méliès drapes a...

What’s in the water in the state of Maryland? Whatever it is, it’s certainly more invigorating than the sewage that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his grandchildren have been swimming...

The Trump administration’s blatant disregard for court orders is not winning it any favor with the Supreme Court. Justice Elena Kagan called out the government’s attorneys Thursday, flaming Justice Department...

MAGA Republican Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mike Lawler are trading verbal jabs over a funding disagreement on Trump’s “big, beautiful” spending bill. This began when Lawler, along with four...

Elon Musk is so concerned with pushing false claims of white genocide in South Africa that he seems to have broken his Grok AI chatbot, which is now bringing it...

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country. There is nothing for you in the East. The irascible New York newspaper editor Horace Greeley said that around 1833,...

My father, George Kuttab, and his mother, our Tata Nazira Fatalleh, fled their neighborhood of Musrara in what is now West Jerusalem in May 1948, after their sister Hoda’s husband,...

The office of dictator was created in the early Roman Republic, when it granted a single person—a prominent and trusted citizen—immense power in times of emergency. The dictator effectively became...

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 15 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The...

Jennifer Bauer has heartbreaking reasons for distancing herself from the church. Her mother had been acutely unhappy in her second marriage. When she lamented to the women at her nondenominational...