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A series of coincidences recently brought to my mind a critic whose work I hadn’t read in decades but whom I consider one of the greatest and most enduringly useful film critics I’ve ever read: Harry Alan Potamkin, who was…
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has left open the possibility of Vice President Mike Pence meeting with North Korean officials during his trip to the Winter Olympic games in Seoul, whose opening ceremonies are on Friday. If that happens, Pence would…
Mitch McConnell has just turned the immigration debate in the Senate, already mysterious and complicated, into something everyone in Washington is struggling to wrap their heads around. He’s giving the Senate a week of floor debate to address any immigration…
On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced a breakthrough budget deal. As Vox’s Tara Golshan explains, the plan will fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program for 10 years and community health centers…
Tuesday’s launch of the world’s most powerful Falcon Heavy rocket, inspired and designed by SpaceX’ billionaire Elon Musk couldn’t have gone unnoticed in China, which is making huge leaps forward in the technological sphere. And, notably, it is seriously considering…
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) pushed for more robust protection of the intellectual properties behind Chinese military and technological innovations in an article published in the PLA-run China National Defense News. The article singled out supercomputers, drones, dredger ships and rocket…
