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…
America broke its promise to Gen Z. The question now is whether that betrayal has hardened into something that no economic recovery can easily undo. Last year, the “Gen Z stare” became a cultural shorthand — a label for the…
Bruce Springsteen has a clear definition of what it means to love your country. It starts with telling the truth about it. Speaking in his recent PBS special, Bruce Springsteen: Finding America in Song, the rock icon laid out a…
Native American tribes gathered this week to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Greasy Grass — known to most Americans as the Battle of Little Bighorn — marking one of the most significant military victories in Indigenous history…
What actually happened on Friday’s episode of Real Time? Vice President J.D. Vance appeared on Bill Maher’s HBO programme Real Time on Friday, partly to promote his new spiritual memoir, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith. The exchange was…