When Calm Becomes Power In recent years, American politics has increasingly resembled a performance staged for maximum provocation. Power is asserted not through persuasion but through volume;…

Three Million Pages, Thousands of Names, and the Question Washington Avoids On Friday morning, the Justice Department released what may be the most expansive public disclosure connected…

A Night the Camera Could Not Contain He had been gone for years, long enough to become a memory softened by reruns and nostalgia. When the retired…

When Television Became the Trial By the time the studio doors closed behind the former president, the silence that followed felt less like the end of a…

A Gala Meant for Charity Ends With a Question Power Could Not Silence The ballroom, by all accounts, was meant to celebrate generosity. Crystal chandeliers washed the…

When Late Night Stopped Laughing On the evening of January 31, 2026, American late-night television briefly abandoned its long-standing contract with comfort. There was no band cue,…

When Silence Becomes the Sharpest Punchline Donald Trump has never treated late-night comedy as background noise. To him, a joke is not merely a cultural aside but…

Jimmy Kimmel, Free Speech, and the Late-Night Line Trump Cannot Cross By any conventional measure of television history, late-night comedy is a soft target. Jokes land, applause…