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I recently watched "A Face in the Crowd" for the umpteenth time. I had a better reason than procrastination to rewatch Elia Kazan's brilliant 1957 film exploring populism in the television age. It was homework. I was asked to discuss it with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz at the ...

When the history of this benighted era is written, people will wonder about the madman president. They will ask what we did to try to resist his rampages against our federal government. For Donald J. Trump, "mad" can be taken in both ways. First, his state of mind is very angry, all the ...

Who is monitoring the debt?

People of a certain age will recall a lyric from the Tennessee Ernie Ford song "Sixteen Tons": "Another day older and deeper in debt." I thought of that song as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth asked Congress to approve a $1.5 trillion budget for fiscal year 2027 to put the military on what he ...