Canceled show means Reid will have more time to hunt down notorious ‘hackers’ who ‘fabricated’ bigoted screeds on her old blog Grok MSNBC is canceling Joy Reid’s 7 p.m. show on the network in an apparent effort to eliminate low-rated programs and replace them with shows people might actually watch. The final episode of The
JERUSALEM—Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas fired his prisoners’ affairs commissioner this week, seemingly demonstrating new seriousness about reforming the system of payments for terrorists that the commissioner oversaw and vocally defended. But Abbas simultaneously replaced the former commissioner, Qadura Fares, with another convicted terrorist and leading proponent of the payments, Raed Abu al-Humus. The incoming
Last week I was in Austin and stopped into the LBJ Presidential Library, which is definitely worth a visit. It’s got the presidential limo, a replica Oval Office, and even the suit Johnson wore when John F. Kennedy was shot. Of course Johnson was in the car behind JFK. How convenient! Speaking of which, Dominic
Tell me what you think about Lee Harvey Oswald, and I’ll tell you how you vote. Every year since 1963, Gallup has polled Americans on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In the weeks after Kennedy’s killing, less than 30 percent of Americans believed that Oswald acted alone and 52 percent believed that “others
In a season five episode of the estimable sitcom 30 Rock, itself based on the goings-on of a network television show closely modeled on Saturday Night Live, the writer and producer Aaron Sorkin makes a cameo as himself. Introduced to Tina Fey’s ever-acerbic head writer Liz Lemon, Sorkin demands they execute his signature walk-and-talk power
Next week, an ever-smaller audience will tune into the Oscars to watch the Hollywood elite congratulate themselves on their bravery for sharing the opinion that Donald Trump is a bad man. Hollywood’s ironclad embrace of the Democratic Party line is nothing new—it is evident in Best Picture nominee A Complete Unknown. The film pretends that
Beyond headlines about the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, and the Biden administration’s failure to prevent them, the Indian Ocean and its inlets garner little U.S. media attention. Off the coast of East Africa, however, another battle is brewing—one that pits the United States against the Chinese Communist Party. The Indian Ocean sits between