Using Tax Incentives to Improve Our Economic Statistics
Higher participation rates, as well as more timely and accurate responses, are necessary to improve the performance of our economic surveys. Source link
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Democracy’s Machine Learning Problem
We can’t let either artificial intelligence or demagogic politicians tell us exactly what we want to hear. Source link
Gavin Newsom Rolls the Dice
California’s governor hopes that his new gerrymander will help his 2028 presidential prospects. Source link
‘Real Housewives of London’ Is Campy and Addictive, but Can Brits’ Dry Wit Bring the Drama?: TV Review
British audiences have an insatiable appetite for reality television. “Big Brother” is still on screens after 25 years. There are countless reality shows where affluent people have…
Adult Swim’s Delightful Spanish Language Series ‘Women Wearing Shoulder Pads’ Features ’80s Flair, Lesbian Trysts and So Many Guinea Pigs: TV Review
The stop-motion animated series “Women Wearing Shoulder Pads” is the first Spanish-language original from storied programming bloc Adult Swim, the Cartoon Network imprint that’s home to…
A Kennedy Center for the Whole Country?
With the line between ‘art’ and ‘entertainment’ blurred, Trump’s Kennedy Center seeks to give its audiences a bit of both. Source link
‘Blue Film’ Review: A Swaggering Camboy Is Caught Off-Guard In a Provocative Chamber Piece
Anyone approaching “Blue Film” hoping to be titillated, per the pornographic implication of the title, is likely to be disappointed. “Blue” denotes sex, certainly, and that’s forever on…
America Should Celebrate Its Heroes
The president has rightly recognized the narrow, almost exclusive concentration on victims in our culture of commemoration — and seeks to reverse it. Source link
Reviving the Presidential Fitness Test Is Worth a Shot
Critics of Trump’s move seem unable to separate their criticisms from their politics. Source link
The Left Can’t Stop Self-Destructing
Democrats are once again denying the obvious, this time about D.C.’s crime problem, to ‘resist’ Trump. But they’re wrong — I should know. Source link
Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes Deserves a Place on Your Read-Aloud List
A blind protagonist, mystery, and magic make this a captivating tale. Source link
‘Dry Leaf’ Review: A Gorgeously Eccentric Road Trip Through Blurry Rural Georgia
In Alexandre Koberidze‘s 2021 breakout “What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?” the audience is politely requested to momentarily close their eyes. The Georgian director’s unassumingly…
The ‘No Deal’ Summit and the Path to Peace in Ukraine
For any American intervention to be successful, before long it will have to involve more stick, as well as carrot. Source link
‘Yakushima’s Illusion’ Review: Vicky Krieps and Naomi Kawase Team Up for a Cross-Cultural Tearjerker
Organ donation may be a miracle of modern medicine, though in Japan, it remains a divisive practice, in conflict with certain cultural and religious views on the limits of mortality and…
What My Oxford Year Gets Wrong
Everything. Source link
Illinois Is Mandating Mental Health Screenings for Kids. Parents Beware
This is a profound government overreach. Source link
Why Is Trump Imposing Tariffs on Israel?
Continuing tariffs on Israeli goods exemplifies the overreach of Trump’s policy. Source link
Fixing Elite Universities Means Firing Bad Trustees, Starting with Harvard’s
Plus, federal arts agencies may be at death’s door, but they’re still making grants. Source link
The States Can Help End Politicized Debanking
If more states take up the cause of eliminating the politicization of access to our economy, the resulting state laws may spur Washington, D.C., to action. Source link
‘Coolie’ Review: Tamil Superstar Rajinikanth Leads a Violent, Convoluted Action Romp
At 74 years old, Tamil legend Rajinikanth remains effortlessly suave, making him worthy of not one, but two of his own logos prior to “Coolie,” his 170th film. Director Lokesh Kanagaraj’s…
Trump’s Private Sector Shakedown
‘State capitalism’ never works. Source link
Legal Drama ‘The Rainmaker’ Won’t Bring Blue Skies Back to USA: TV Review
It’s been a long while since the USA Network last premiered an original drama. (Five years, to be precise, since the one-and-done “Briarpatch.”) A lot has happened since — so much that, in…
Beware the Return of Inflation
The surge in the producer price index is not due to tariffs — which should worry the administration. Source link
Trump Shines a Light on Discrimination in College Admissions
By forcing schools to open their books, it will be much more difficult for them to rely on application essays and obscure admissions criteria to ‘cover their tracks.’ Source link