The constitutional system creates an invitation to struggle. Now, as the U.S. wages war on Iran, Congress must decide whether it wants to struggle, as it did during the Vietnam War, or remain ...

Anyone paying serious attention to the Academy Awards knows that – despite the hype and pretension – Oscars don’t always land ...

Modern newswriting still runs on conventions engineered for the telegraph—speed first, cut from the bottom, clarity through simplification—yet it is tasked with narrating wars that demand history and ...

In the post-COVID landscape, where theatrical attendance has changed dramatically, Dwayne Johnson's once-guaranteed success ...

In case we don’t get the point, Orlean (author of 'The Orchard Thief' and 'The Library Book'), reminds us numerous times that she falls into one of two categories of writers: “those who have something ...

The term “all style, no substance” comes pretty close to describing this new adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Despite its talented cast and impressive visuals, this film leaves the audience with ...

Forty-five years after going off the air, The Muppet Show makes its triumphant return, and it hasn’t missed a beat. While Kermit the Frog and his lovable band of misfit puppets have never truly ...

Poets have never had an easy go of it, in day-to-day life or in letters. There’s not much that is expressively sublime about paying the rent, or helping a friend move furniture. Novelists and ...

The halftime show is the last bastion of interest for non-sports fans who still wish to participate in the good old American tradition of the Super Bowl. This year there was controversy at the reveal ...

Imagine walking up to the most beautiful human you’ve ever seen. They are everything you ever wanted in a lover—the shining hair, the perfect body, the penetrating eyes. But then you engage them in ...

Guitarist-singer Boris Grebenschikov walks the streets of New York in 1988, narrating his origin story offscreen. Raised in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Boris formed a rock band, Aquarium, and ...

In January 1979, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, fled the country following decades of ruling its citizens with an iron fist. After years of ...