A federal judge in Boston has dismissed the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Harvard University over admissions data, delivering another legal setback to the White House’s escalating campaign against one of the country’s most prominent academic institutions. U.S. District Judge Myong…
Barbra Streisand has been sending emails again. At 84, the singer and longtime Democratic fundraiser is still one of the party’s most reliable celebrity voices — and with less than two weeks until the midterm elections, the Democratic Congressional Campaign…
A Question of Whose Voices Belong The request seemed straightforward enough. In late August, filmmaker Eli Steele and his team reached out to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture — one of the most visited institutions…
On May 6, D.J. Byrnes picked up his phone and sent three text messages to an Ohio state senator. One contained political commentary. Another deployed a nickname — “Young Mussolini” — that Byrnes had long used for the lawmaker in…
The largest merger in Hollywood history is now cleared to close. Paramount has reached a settlement with California and eleven other states that had sued to block its $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, California Attorney General Rob Bonta…
There is something genuinely alarming about a federal regulatory agency pressuring a broadcast network into pulling a political interview from the airwaves — and it is happening right now, in plain sight, with barely a murmur of institutional resistance. On…
Norman Dixon’s Classic Study of Failed Leadership Has Found Its Most Vivid Modern Subject Norman F. Dixon published On the Psychology of Military Incompetence fifty years ago as an attempt to explain a distinctly British affliction: why the nation’s armed…
The tension between sports media and political commentary did not begin overnight. It crystallized in the summer of 2016, when San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the national anthem to protest police violence against Black Americans —…
A Warning Hidden in Rarity Solar storms capable of crippling modern infrastructure are not science fiction. The 1859 Carrington Event knocked out telegraph networks across Europe and North America and pushed the Northern Lights as far south as Florida. More…
What is R. Kelly actually asking for? R. Kelly, the R&B singer convicted of running a years-long criminal enterprise built on the sexual exploitation of women and girls, has formally petitioned President Donald Trump to commute his 31-year federal prison…