Comment on this story Comment Blame is in abundance on a late-October afternoon at Signature Theatre’s Shirlington space as the cast of “Into the Woods” rehearses the Act 2 patter song “Your Fault.” Reeling from tragedy, the character of the Baker has cooked up a game of culpability hot potato with Cinderella, Little Red Riding … Read more
Comment on this story Comment In “His Masterly Pen,” a thoroughly engrossing study of Thomas Jefferson, Fred Kaplan demonstrates that he, too, wields a masterly pen. Although the subtitle of the book describes it as “a biography of Jefferson the writer,” it is more accurately an examination of the insights into Jefferson’s character and philosophy … Read more
Comment on this story Comment StarSolidStarSolidStarSolidStarOutline(3 stars) Remember “Knives Out”? It was 2019, and we were all looking for a movie worth schlepping to a theater to see with the whole family. Who knew it would be a playful Agatha Christie-style parlor mystery whose themes of wealth inequality, political squabbling and internecine power plays made … Read more
Comment on this story Comment United Nations Secretary General António Guterres recently declared that the Earth was on “a highway to climate hell.” In “Silent Spring Revolution,” a panoramic history of environmental politics from 1960 to 1973, Douglas Brinkley describes a more hopeful age when awareness of ecological degradation was rising and government and activists … Read more
Mel Tucker just sat down, and he already sees something he doesn’t like. It’s August, and a new season is on the horizon. In the Michigan State University football office, staffers greet each other with cheery salutes of “Happy first practice!” But Tucker, the head coach, is stoic as he eyes the spliced-up practice film … Read more
MSNBC “The ReidOut” host Joy Reid and The Nation correspondent Elie Mystal put out the theory that Justice Samuel Alito leaked the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade back in May. Reid reported on an accusation that Alito leaked the 2014 Supreme Court decision regarding Hobby Lobby to right-wing activists. Alito and the woman … Read more
In Houston, the jail has reached its highest population in a decade. More than half of the detainees who died there had a history of mental problems. Source link
Victims are remembered as ‘loving’ and ‘happy.’ The authorities identified the five people who were killed in the shooting as Kelly Loving, Daniel Aston, Derrick Rump, Ashley Paugh and Raymond Green Vance. Ms. Loving, 40, visited Club Q on Saturday night during a weekend trip from Denver. She was killed only a few minutes after … Read more
ROSARIO, Argentina — It’s match day at Abanderado Grandoli, a small, working-class soccer club here in Argentina’s third-largest city. Local families pay $1 a month so their 4-year-old sons can play seven-a-side fútbol — a first step, many hope, toward a professional career in the national obsession. In the small locker room hangs a poster … Read more
