Republicans and Democrats demonstrated a fundamental disagreement Tuesday on how best to address skyrocketing numbers of weapons being confiscated at airport security checkpoints, with Republicans arguing for more education and Democrats more inclined to embrace higher penalties for offenders.While both parties agreed that the nearly 6,000 guns confiscated at airport security by Transportation Security Administration…Continue Reading

Allison Gollust, CNN’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer, resigned from the network on Tuesday, less than two weeks after her boss-turned-lover Jeff Zucker also quit.Jason Kilar, the CEO of CNN’s parent company WarnerMedia, announced Gollust’s departure in a Tuesday memo. He said a company investigation into “issues” related to the recent ouster of…Continue Reading

The network’s top-rated host and its president were forced out following ethical lapses, an office romance and a letter from a lawyer for “Jane Doe.”Jeff Zucker’s abrupt departure has thrown the future of CNN into chaos.Credit…Mike Coppola/Getty ImagesFeb. 15, 2022Late in the day on Nov. 30, Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN Worldwide, summoned his star…Continue Reading

American movies are drowning in fantasy, but far more dire than its quantity is its quality. The absolute power of C.G.I. has been harnessed mainly by corporate producers who’ve turned movie fantasies into dominant forms of world-spanning, mind-numbing propaganda. Yet, at its best, fantasy is both a way of representing realities too enormous to grasp…Continue Reading

If you’ve been exposed to any political-theory nerds recently—at your local used bookstore, or in an adjunct-faculty lounge, or, more likely, on the Internet—then you might recognize the words of the Italian Marxist dissident Antonio Gramsci: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in…Continue Reading

Eartha Kitt didn’t want to attend the White House luncheon that wound up derailing her career: the 1968 Women Doers Luncheon, the First Lady Claudia (Lady Bird) Johnson called it. The topic of interest would be delinquency in the streets. Kitt didn’t put much stock in the gathering. “Those luncheons—what are they gonna mean?” she…Continue Reading

3.04am EST 03:04 Mike Hytner Curling: ROC manage to pull one back in the seventh end and with three ends to go, Great Britain lead 5-3. And with that I’ll hand you over to Luke McLaughlin in London, who will see you through the res of the day’s action in Beijing. Bye for now. 2.57am…Continue Reading

The United States, the European Union and others pledged $600 million US in additional funds to help Haiti Wednesday as hundreds of thousands of people are still struggling six months after a powerful earthquake struck the country’s southern region.A framed portrait of the Last Supper is seen in the remains of a church in Machine,…Continue Reading