The run-up to the Academy Awards is a fun, ridiculous, and loopy monthslong stretch. It also encourages something vital to Hollywood’s artistic ecosystem: Movie studios, in the hopes of achieving ...

Sean Parnell, the chief Pentagon spokesperson, told us in a statement that the review is about freeing military lawyers from bureaucratic drag so they can focus on what matters: supporting commanders ...

Three recent stories have forced me to wonder if I was just looking in the wrong places.

Now Donald Trump has finally ousted Noem, but in her place, he is sending them Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma. Mullin is a former mixed-martial-arts fighter, a current fighter for ...

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The actor Stellan Skarsgård has slowly cultivated one of Hollywood’s most impressive resumes.

Please don’t take him just because you can.” The Jolene Doctrine sounds like the corollary to the way a senior administration official described the president’s approach to Goldberg back in 2018: “The ...

A mystery looms over the first 90 minutes of The Secret Agent, the Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s masterful fifth feature: Why is Armando Solimões on the run? The sad-eyed research ...

Today’s questions are hard, both in difficulty level and subject matter—each touches on authoritarianism—but don’t let that dissuade you. To play, type your response into the field below the question ...

People often use condo as a synonym for apartment, but it refers to a particular arrangement: Residents own their unit and share possession of their building’s common areas and the surrounding ...

Patrick Halgren of Team USA competes during the para-Alpine skiing men’s giant-slalom standing on Day 7 of the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games, at Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre on March 13, 2026.

Hegseth mainly berated news outlets for failing to cover the war in the propagandistic fashion that he’d practiced as a Fox News talking head. He quoted a CNN chyron that read Mideast War Intensifies.