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The Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory in the Pacific Ocean, just became the first American jurisdiction to legalize the sales of marijuana through a legislature. And it did so with the approval of a Republican-controlled government. Gov. Ralph Torres…
On Thursday night, conservative legal operative Ed Whelan sent a series of tweets suggesting that the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh were likely a case of mistaken identity. His evidence was that a high school classmate of Kavanaugh’s kind…
Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have, from the beginning, recalled the contentious 1991 confirmation of Justice Clarence Thomas amid similar allegations of misconduct by Anita Hill. Now the Senate Judiciary Committee chair during…
I hesitate to grab the word “reality” when probing at “Maniac” (Netflix). The series ventures through the altered consciousnesses of two participants in a psychiatric-drug trial, one of whom, Owen (Jonah Hill), has a history of schizophrenic delusions. Momentary hallucinations…
When I was a young boy, I visited the French town of Lourdes on a school trip. I was educated by the Christian Brothers, who believed that the grotto there was a miraculous site where, in 1858, the Blessed Virgin…
The delight of streaming movies is instant and inexpensive access; the downside is impermanence—the prospect of titles vanishing from services because of contractual limits or planned scarcity. Movies worth revisiting enduringly are, in my opinion, worth owning on physical media,…
