China’s new aircraft supercarrier challenges U.S. dominance in Pacific
China’s efforts to blunt American maritime power in the Pacific, a region the United States has long considered its domain,...
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The Designer Winning Over the Fashion Elite
It has been a good month for the designer Ashlynn Park and her namesake label, Ashlyn. Within a week, she...
Why Is Ghislaine Maxwell Being Pampered in Prison?
This week, Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland, revealed that a whistle-blower gave the House Committee on the Judiciary information about...
Hakeem Jeffries Needs to Be a Bit of a Jerk
On Monday, less than a week after the Democratic Party’s election romp, the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, should have...
Zelensky Ousted a Heavyweight Mayor. Was It a Power Grab?
When President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Odesa’s scandal-tainted mayor last month, the move might have been expected to make local residents...
Ken Burns says Americans have been fighting each other since the beginning
There’s a neon sign in Ken Burns’s editing room that reads, “It’s complicated.” Even the prolific documentarian, who spends more...
Meta is tapping top talent into robotics efforts, including the leader behind its smart glasses
Li-Chen MillerJOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty ImagesLi-Chen Miller, who led Meta's smart glasses, became the first product manager of its robotics...
A dying poet embraces life in ‘Come See Me in the Good Light’
(3 stars)Periodically, some charismatic person with a terminal diagnosis steps into the role of societal sage. With their days numbered,...
The $500 million American Dream museum near the White House: Should you go?
Everyone has their version of the American Dream. For some, it’s to be rich or famous or become president. For...
Custom framing prices have doubled over the past decade. Here’s why.
It’s a rite of passage. As young adults grow up, they ditch their futons, get nicer towels and decide it’s...
Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ is more than just a love letter to Godard
(3.5 stars)Sometimes a passion project leans a little too hard into the first half of that descriptor. (Who said “Glitter”?...
Conservative Media Picks an Epstein Story Line and Sticks to It
Right-wing media had a similar first response to new emails tying President Trump to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein:...
How the FBI’s massive search for the D.C. pipe bomber stalled
In the weeks after a mob attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the FBI dedicated more than 50 agents...
Trump Has Snatched the Power of the Purse. Congress Should Take It Back.
The Constitution gives the authority to tax and spend not to the head of state, but to the elected representatives...
A new Ira Sachs film resurrects Peter Hujar, and something far greater
(4 stars)Several times, when the conversation at the center of “Peter Hujar’s Day” takes an existential turn, we hear a...
