Perilous and Preposterous, ‘Cliffhanger’ Brought Stallone Back From the Brink
What’s a “good-bad” movie? It’s the kind of flick that might have you cackling, hollering or groaning, one that is...
Trump’s Travel Crackdown Has a Winner: Mexican Tourism
The top five most-visited countries in the world are, by several measures: France, Spain, the United States, Italy and Turkey....
The Rise of Racetrack Country Clubs: ‘Racing Is Golf on Steroids’
A paradox played out in Miami during a recent Formula 1 weekend: On fashionable city streets, a tangled toy box...
What a French Fighter Jet Ride Taught Me About the Fourth of July
All I needed was a call sign. I was at a NASA airfield in eastern Virginia, watching mechanics prepare a...
To Beat the Heat, the Wealthy Are Building Snow Rooms
On a recent Tuesday, the heat index in Frisco, Texas, spiked above 100 degrees. While asphalt bubbled beneath a scorching...
Catherine Laga’aia on the Funniest Podcast Episode Ever
Catherine Laga’aia believed she’d landed a ticket to paradise when she was cast in “Moana,” earning the title role as...
How Do You Celebrate America’s 250-Year Experiment? However You Want.
A quarter of a millennium into its experiment in self-governance, the United States finds itself living out twin realities. The...
This Representative Fought Trump Over the Kennedy Center and Won
Just before dawn on a Saturday morning last month, a 76-year-old congresswoman arrived outside the John F. Kennedy Center for...
6 Things That Drive Us Crazy About Money in America
Birthdays are an opportunity to celebrate, but also to reflect and raise a glass to what makes the honoree unique...
Readers Pick the Definitive Films That Capture America
With the country celebrating its 250th birthday, what better time to explore movies that capture the American experience? For an...
Momentary Unity at a Funeral Masks Deep Divisions Among Iran’s Leaders
When Iran’s leaders and senior military commanders paid tribute to the slain supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in the elaborate,...
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s American Royal Wedding
By all accounts, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are married. After a year of rumor, speculation and prediction-market prop-betting over...
‘Human Vapor’ Review: Netflix Remakes a Japanese Sci-Fi Curio
Six years after he unleashed “Godzilla,” the Japanese director Ishiro Honda let loose a smaller but no less frightening monster...
Heat Wave Will Make the Fourth of July a Brutally Hot Holiday for Many
Philadelphia on the morning of July 4, 1776, was a pleasant 68 degrees, according to a diary kept by Thomas...
As the Nation Turns 250, a Texas Town Grieves Instead
On a sweltering Tuesday morning, Cynthia Vlasek inched closer to the Guadalupe River in the small Hill Country community of...
