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Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of defense, the former Army National Guard major and Fox News host Pete Hegseth, has no ...

The clearest candidate for America’s favorite fairy tale might be The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The author L. Frank Baum set ...

Matt Gaetz has withdrawn from consideration for attorney general but many of Donald Trump’s other nominees continue to draw ...

The exodus to Bluesky is a problem for the right. Since Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 and subsequently turned it into X, ...

Watch. Say Nothing (streaming on Hulu) captures the struggle of separating who you are from what you fight for. Debate. Jake ...

In 2017, Pam Bondi was passed over as too scandal-tainted. This time, she’s the safe, acceptable fallback choice.

Trump’s choice to begin a new administration with this particular slate of picks represents a remarkable commitment to moral ...

Inside the Hollywood writing that fuels generative AI.

Gladiator II wants you to smell the sweat and embrace the excess.

Human beings are good at seeing through frauds. Not perfectly good at it. Not always as fast as might be. And not everybody.

Members of Donald Trump’s inner circle understandably wish to interpret the election results as a mandate for the most ...