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Each week, Richard Brody picks a classic film, a modern film, an independent film, a foreign film, and a documentary for online viewing. “Margaret” Photograph by Myles Aronowitz / Fox Searchlight / Everett When I mentioned last summer the streaming…
In April of 1952, at the age of twenty-five, Hubert de Givenchy arrived at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in New York, with eight elaborate couture gowns. He was making his American début at the first annual April in Paris Ball, a…
The New York Times editorial page has come in for a great deal of criticism since it fell under the leadership of James Bennet, previously editor at the Atlantic, in March 2016. Most recently, new hire Bari Weiss linked to…
The Trump Organization and Jared Kushner’s family company are quietly doing business together — and government ethics experts are alarmed that it’s adding yet another dimension to the Trump administration’s conflict of interest problems. The New York Times reports that…
The past decade has been a slow-motion Republican conquest of Wisconsin. Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s party now holds all but one of the statewide elected offices. Walker has radically diminished the power of organized labor. He overhauled welfare and imposed…
Buried under layers of sand and mud for almost 14 centuries, the lost city of Adulis is finally returning to light to become the first national archaeological park of Sub-Saharan Africa, an event that would revitalize the territory from a…
