Robert Altman’s film The Player (1992), which explores the dark underbelly of Hollywood with its story of an unscrupulous producer, Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), who murders a screenwriter, still resonates more than 30 years since its release. Seth Rogen has...
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Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:15:47 +0000In 2023, the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program shocked the state with devastating statistics about Baltimore public schools. Thirteen high schools — about 40 percent of the entire district — showed zero students meeting state math proficiency standards. Additionally, only 7...
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Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:15:45 +0000On March 31, Norway’s biggest TV channel, state-owned NRK1, broadcast a special half-hour program, beginning at 9:15 PM — prime time, mind you! — entitled Festen etter fasten, or “The Party after the Fast.” The occasion was the end of...
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Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:15:43 +0000As CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and former U.S. ambassador to NATO in the Obama administration, Ivo Daalder is a member in good standing of the foreign policy establishment. In a recent piece on the Foreign Affairs...
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Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:15:40 +0000Arguably America’s finest writer of the 20th century, Flannery O’Connor was born 100 years ago. Although she has been dead for over half a century, the acclaimed author still remains a target for the cultural vultures of the hyper-progressive left....
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Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:12:23 +0000The date was February 2, 2017. The event: the National Prayer Breakfast. The speaker was the new president of the United States: Donald J. Trump. Conservatives, Christians, and many religious Americans generally were keenly interested in what the new president...
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Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:05:38 +0000Many people (including White House officials) believe that President Trump can simply remake the economy however he wishes. This is incorrect. While a president wields significant power when it comes to some economic policies, he cannot magically make the economy flourish....
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Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:05:36 +0000Trump’s poll numbers show him measurably more popular than he was during this phase of his first term, and he’s enjoying the country’s highest “Right-Track/Wrong-Track” numbers in over 20 years, while the Democrats’ approval ratings have sunk to somewhere between...
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Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:05:34 +0000California Gov. Gavin Newsom has made new comments that are worthy only of April Fool’s Day. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times that was published April 1, he expressed shock at how some of his “most loyal friends” are...
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Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:05:31 +0000Despite dodging questions about former President Joe Biden’s health during her time as White House press secretary, Jen Psaki told Morning Joe panelists that the Trump administration should “not treat everyone like they’re stupid.” Join Ellie Gardey Holmes and Lyrah Margo on this...
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