There was once a time in the 1990s when Robert Kaplan was rightly regarded as a prophet. “Disease, overpopulation, unprovoked crime, scarcity of resources, refugee migrations, the increasing erosion of nation-states and international borders, and the empowerment of private armies, security firms, and international drug cartels”—this was the parade of horribles Kaplan bracingly foretold in
I have known the author of this memoir, Professor Jerome Cohen, on and off for some decades through his son, Ethan Cohen, a top gallerist in New York who introduced the likes of Ai Weiwei to America. As part of the respect you show the parents of a friend, you don’t probe in detail about
Marcie Rendon was in her mid-60s when her first novel, Murder on the Red River, was published in 2017. She had written for the theater, plus a couple of children’s books, and her bio line also describes her as a “community arts activist,” but nothing she’d done up to that point would have suggested she
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a school choice bill into law on Saturday that will allocate $1 billion for parents to pay for their child's private school tuition.
Sen. Roger Wicker objects to what he sees as White House cuts to the defense budget in the reconciliation bill. The White House on May 2 shared a $1 trillion military budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 and some congressional Republicans have said the funding doesn’t quite add up. White House Office of Management and
The South Texas home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company is on its way to becoming an official city with a galactic name: Starbase. A vote Saturday to formally organize Starbase as a city was approved by a small group of voters who live there and are mostly Musk’s employees at SpaceX. Starbase is the
The South Texas home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company is on its way to becoming an official city with a galactic name: Starbase. A vote Saturday to formally organize Starbase as a city was approved by a lopsided margin by a small group of voters who live there and are mostly Musk’s employees at