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Posted February 16, 2022 at 10:30amDr. Chandra Ojha, a cardiologist in El Paso, Texas, is used to demanding work. But lately, Ojha, who has waited more than three years for his green card through a since-expired government program, has been “feeling the stress.” It became so intense that a recent bout of chest pain spurred…Continue Reading

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

Written by Emily Steel, Jodi Kantor, Michael M. Grynbaum, James B. Stewart and John Koblin Late in the day on Nov. 30, Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN Worldwide, summoned his star anchor and friend, Chris Cuomo, to a meeting in the network’s skyscraper overlooking the Hudson River. Zucker was joined by the network’s chief…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

[filmstrip clicking][somber music]Nobody wants to talk about the worst thing they ever did,all right?Nobody wants to talk about that.I tried to go in there and just be honest,just be honest.That’s that’s all, that’s all, that’s all you can do.I was hopeful that I was gonna be able to go home,and be with my son and…Continue Reading