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Trump promises $2000 tariff dividend to all Americans

“People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS! We are now the Richest, Most Respected Country In the World, With Almost No Inflation, and A Record Stock Market Price. 401k’s are Highest EVER. We are taking in Trillions of Dollars and…

November 9, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Glamor in a time of grocery bills

It feels weird to make food glamorous right now. As millions of Americans brace for the potential lapse of SNAP benefits this month— and as grocery prices climb heading into the holidays — the fantasy of cinematic domesticity has never…

November 9, 2025 · by Jamie Cook · 0

“Who’d have thought it’d be not me?”: “SNL” recreates Trump reaction to Oval Office fainting

This week’s episode of “Saturday Night Live” opened with a soliloquy from President Donald Trump, using the occasion of a pharmaceutical company representative fainting in the Oval Office to give James Austin Johnson‘s Trump a minute to speak his mind.…

November 9, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Trump stumbles and bumbles in the wake of Democratic wins

There are many reasons why Democrats won landslide victories in Tuesday’s off-year elections, not the least of which is that the party out of power usually wins in such circumstances. None of the polls showed Republicans poised to produce an…

November 9, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Nancy Pelosi knew and used her power. So should Democrats

It’s fashionable now to criticize Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic gerontocracy. The party, after all, has a yawning generation gap that has stymied younger politicians from attaining power, ascending to leadership and freshening Democrats’ image and agenda. But…

November 9, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Parenting in America is hard. Italy showed me another way

The other day, while catching up with an American mom in Italy, she told me about her friend in Los Angeles who got kicked out of a restaurant. It wasn’t because she was drunk or couldn’t afford to pay the…

November 9, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Supreme Court to hear religious freedom case that’s united both sides of the church-state divide

In recent years, litigation on certain types of religious freedom lawsuits have been practically run of the mill: prayer on school premises, for example, and government funding for students at faith-based schools. A case scheduled for U.S. Supreme Court oral…

November 9, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

In “Christy,” Sydney Sweeney’s only fighting herself

Considering what happened to the intrepid Christy Martin, the fighter who put women’s boxing on the map in the 1990s and paved the way for countless others in her sport, there is no joy in disliking her Sydney Sweeney-starring biopic,…

November 8, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

99 years later, “The Sun Also Rises” is still delicious

Act 1: The Road to Hemingway’s Spain Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” begins in Paris but it doesn’t stay there. It follows a group of post-World War I expatriates, led by the emotionally distant narrator Jake Barnes and the…

November 8, 2025 · by Jamie Cook · 0

At Yale University, things are getting Orwellian

On Tuesday, Sept. 30, the Yale University Film Society, via email, announced a screening the following day of “Orwell: 2+2=5,” the latest documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Raoul Peck. The film, which focuses on British author George Orwell and features…

November 8, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0