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Markus Brunetti’s pictures of church façades have nothing to do with religion but you still have to take them on faith. If you stood in front of one of these majestic buildings in Europe or Britain, what Brunetti’s work reveals…
What’s worst about “The Cloverfield Paradox,” the J. J. Abrams-produced movie that Netflix surprise-released, on Sunday night, after the Super Bowl, is that it didn’t have to be bad. The film—the third in the “Cloverfield” franchise—assembled a charismatic cast, headed…
The Trump administration’s Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), to be released Friday, will include a call for the deployment of low-yield, “more usable” nuclear warheads, a move widely anticipated when a draft of the document was leaked to the Huffington Post on…
Here’s what we can say about the Trump administration’s just-released National Defense Strategy: it’s not a strategy and its subject is not defense. Bearing the imprimatur of Pentagon chief James Mattis, the NDS—at least the unclassified summary that we citizens…
The federal spending bill, which Congress passed to end the three-day government shutdown two weeks ago, runs out again this Thursday, and Congress hasn’t made any progress toward reaching a permanent funding deal or dealing with the immigration issue —…
Senate Democrats agreed to reopen the federal government last month because they had reached an understanding with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on how to move forward with an immigration debate. In the eyes of the activist base, that was…
