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Now that Congress has zeroed out federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS, NPR and stations across the country will be scrambling to come up with plans for what to do next.

Paula Kerger, the president and CEO of PBS, has warned that even though the network gets a small share of its funding from federal sources, it still will have to look at scaling back. “We will obviously have to make some hard decisions about what we’re able to continue to do, and how much resources we’ll have,” Kerger told Deadline this week.

But she and other advocates of public media say that the most severe impacts will be felt on local stations, particularly those in medium and smaller markets that depend more heavily on federal dollars.

That’s been one of the ironies of the whole battle over funding, as President Donald Trump and...

Financial markets are taking a nosedive for the second straight day amid global panic and investor anxiety over Donald Trump’s implementation of broad tariffs on foreign imports. Economists are warning that the president’s actions are putting not just the United States but the world at risk of a global recession, and that working-class Americans will experience acute economic pain. Fret not, says the president, he is apparently playing chess while the world is playing checkers — whatever that means. Even some of his most prominent GOP supporters aren’t buying it.

[This story contains spoilers from Severance season two, episode eight, “Sweet Vitriol.”]

Jane Alexander first discovered Severance because of her grandsons. “It’s very popular, I think, with young people,” she hypothesizes over Zoom.

If Alexander is right, then all those young people currently tuning in to Severance‘s season two might be too young to realize the prestige of her appearance in last week’s episode. Here’s a catch-up: Alexander is well-known for movies like 1970’s The Great White Hope (and the play, with James Earl Jones, the year before), 1976’s All the President’s Men, 1979’s Kramer vs. Kramer and 1983’s Testament. She earned Oscar nominations for all of the above, won two Emmys (Playing for Time in 1980 and Warm Springs in 2005), a Tony (for the aforementioned The Great White Hope) and, from 1993 to 1997, led the National Endowment for the Arts.

“The arts have always been for everybody,” Alexander, now 85, tells The Hollywood Reporter.

The Star Trek franchise has been clear on its politics since the beginning but the pilot episode of Star Trek: Voyager seemed to have inadvertently fumbled on what it primarily wanted to say. The pilot episode ‘Caretaker’ transported the titular Voyager into another dimension and made the ship collaborate with Maquis species.

However, the storyline of the Caretaker helping hundreds of its citizens by taking care of their needs was seen as a metaphor supporting the Republican politician Newt Gingrich’s controversial Contract with America agenda. Showrunner Jeri Taylor reportedly did not intend for it to do so.

Star Trek: Voyager’s pilot has eerie connections to Newt Gingrich’s Personal Responsibility Act A still from Star Trek: Voyager | Credits: Paramount

Star Trek has always been a political show and despite its sci-fi packaging, spoke about many issues plaguing society then. Creator Gene Roddenberry prioritized professional working relationships with minimal interpersonal conflict,...

As predicted, the Trump Administration is now taking aim at the National Endowment of the Arts. While Trump and his crony Elon Musk haven’t fully placed the government agency on the chopping block, they have updated the Fy 2026 Grant Guidelines, which originally were posted in December 2024.

One such update was advising a preference for material that celebrates the upcoming 250th anniversary of the United States of America or as a press release shared by the Nea called it, “America250.”

Ignoring how this title recalls Tom Haverford and Jean-Ralphio’s doomed “Entertainment 720” business on “Parks and Recreation,” the presser ensured funding priority would be given to projects that are set in 2026-2027, but someway incorporate honoring the signing of the Declaration of Independence. This theme can either center the project or be a featured element. It is applicable to all work submitted in the category of Grants for Arts Projects.

Chicago – Sixty years ago, on February 18th, 1965, Author James Baldwin and Pundit William F. Buckley debated each other on the topic “Is the American Dream at the Expense of the American Negro?” That event is recreated in Timeline Theatre’s (click for tix info) Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley through March 2, 2025.

Through March 2nd

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Baldwin is James Baldwin (Teagle F. Bougere), the eminent essayist and novelist who defined the black experience through his life in a number of famous writings, including “Giovanni’s Room,” “Go Tell it On the Mountain,” “The Fire Next Time,” and many more. Buckley is William F. Buckley Jr. (Eric T. Miller). a self anointed “conservative” commentator, who founded the National Review magazine … a conservative mouthpiece … hosted PBS’s “Firing Line” and basically was a right wing propagator until the movement’s de-evolution through Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Fox News and...

Donald Trump has been waiting for years for this kind of opportunity.

As the deadly fires raged and enveloped Los Angeles near the dawn of his second presidency, Trump didn’t see a moment for compassion, or charity, or leadership. Instead, he saw a chance for maximum leverage against his political enemies, and he wanted to take the entire Republican Party along for the ride.

According to three sources familiar with the matter, when Trump looks back on his first term in the White House, one of his regrets is...

In an email sent out on Friday, January 31, Film Festival Alliance‘s Executive Director, Barbara Twist, offered guidance to member organizations and others on how they should respond to the Trump Administration‘s freezing and possible purging of federal funding throughout multiple sectors of government. As a recipient of an Nea grant itself and concerned over a potential pause in funding, Ffa made the decision to close out their account back in December 2024 and is now advising all fellow Nea grantees do the same.

“I encourage all of our member organizations and others with open Nea grants to close them out early if you have incurred reimbursable expenses,” Twist wrote. “For those who are in the middle of a grant cycle, I encourage you to familiarize yourself with how you may be able to reduce or adjust your scope of activities so that your grant obligations can be fulfilled sooner.

“It’s very scary.”

In separate interviews, three veteran nonprofit executives used the same phrase to describe the future of public media in the United States under the next Trump Administration. While agencies are currently funded through 2025, the attacks are fierce.

The GOP Is Out for Blood

In April, president-elect Donald Trump called National Public Radio (NPR) “a liberal disinformation machine” and vowed to never give it a penny while Congressman Scott Perry (R-pa) introduced the “No Propaganda Act,” a bill that aims to prohibit federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (Cpb). Senator Ted Cruz (R-tx) called the Cpb “complicit in perpetuating political bias.”

Three weeks ago, Department of Government Efficiency co-heads Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy joined the fray, calling for an end to federal funding to the Cpb in the Wall Street Journal.

This isn’t new, of course.

Conservative politicians have tried to destroy public...

On the eve of Election Day 2024, Liz Cheney is generally feeling optimistic about Kamala Harris’ chances at winning. According to the former U.S. representative, female voters will almost certainly “save the day in this election.”

Stopping by “The View” on Monday morning, Cheney covered a variety of topics, from Donald Trump’s threats to put her in front of a firing squad — “The intimidation will not work” — to her encouragement for women to vote however they want, and simply not tell their husbands.

When host Sara Haines asked Cheney whether she really believes that women will step up, Cheney was straightforward.

“Yes, women are going to save the day in this election,” she said. “I really believe that.”

Former GOP Rep. @Liz_Cheney on #TheView: "Women are going to save the day in this election."

"People need to really, really remember the misogynist aspect of all of this." pic.

The Simpsons has proven to be surprisingly relevant in modern politics these days — from the show’s accidental prediction of Kamala Harris’ candidacy, to the way Ted Cruz keeps referencing episodes in a failed effort to seem not horrible. So perhaps it’s not that surprising that one classic episode showcased a conspiracy theory that seems to crop up in every single election cycle.

Season Six’s “Sideshow Bob Roberts” finds Bart’s archenemy running as the Republican candidate for Mayor of Springfield, and winning in a landslide thanks to the help of a Rush Limbaugh-esque blowhard. But with a Deep Throat-like informant (Smithers) on their side, Bart and Lisa are able to discover Bob’s nefarious scheme: Most of the votes came from dead people, including Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper.

Pretty much this exact plotline keeps cropping up in the non-cartoon news, but the...

Chicago – Michael P. Nash is a filmmaker on a mission. As searing heat bakes the country this summer, with extreme weather like severe tornadoes and the recent Galveston floods in its wake, the realities in Nash’s prescient 2010 documentary “Climate Refugees” is coming to our own shores. The veteran writer/director is currently working on the followup film “Chasing the Truth,” partnering with Leonardo Di Caprio and his father George.

“Climate Refugees” unveils for the first time the human face of climate change, following the stories of millions of displaced individuals worldwide. This this multi-award winning documentary stands out as a portrayal of the present-day consequences of climate change on humanity. While Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” addressed the causes of climate change, Nash’s film concentrated on the immediate effects experienced by individuals and communities worldwide, casting a light on the human face of our changing climate.

On...

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The 2024 Republican National Convention kicked off Monday, where former President Donald Trump is expected to formally accept his nomination as the GOP’s presidential candidate. The event began just days after Trump survived an assassination attempt during a rally in Pennsylvania.

Quick Answers: How to Watch RNC Online RNC TV Channels: CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CBS News, ABC News, NBC News Where to Stream RNC: DirecTV Stream, Max,...

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In 2008, I published a book with a straightforward premise: the upcoming era of American politics would be defined by a competition between the left and right to harness the working class’s intensifying rage in a society being pillaged by corporate interests.

It was the twilight of the Bush era, and the country was beginning its nose-dive into recession and turmoil, but hope and change seemed just over the horizon.

Tucker Carlson is among the celebrity names slated to speak at next week’s Republican National Convention, reportedly in a plum spot on Thursday night before Donald Trump himself accepts the party nomination.

In addition to a long list of elected officials who are backing Trump, the speaker lineup also includes celebrities like Amber Rose, the model, rapper and former stripper; Dana White, the CEO of UFC; and Savannah Chrisley, the TV personality whose parents are serving prison time for fraud and tax evasion. Also on the bill: Lee Greenwood and Chris Janson.

Notably missing from the lineup: Former First Lady Melania Trump and the former president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump. They each spoke at the 2016 and 2020 conventions.

House GOP leaders like Speaker Mike Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Majority Whip Tom Emmer are on the list, but Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Minority Whip John Thune and Republican...

In "Caretaker," the 1995 pilot episode of "Star Trek: Voyager," the show's titular ship is instantly whisked across the galaxy by an ineffably powerful space alien called the Caretaker. It seems the Caretaker was scanning the entire galaxy looking for lifeforms that it might be able to reproduce with, hoping to produce a progeny to continue its work. Many years ago, the Caretaker's technology accidentally destroyed the planet of a gentle, innocent species called the Ocampa, and he'd been using his technology to care for the survivors ever since. The Ocampa now live sheltered underground, while the Caretaker needs an heir to take over caretaking duties before he dies in less than a day.

Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) recognizes that when the Caretaker dies, some local ruffians called the Kazon will instantly plunder his technology and potentially wreak galaxy-wide havoc. Janeway chooses to destroy the Caretaker's massive home satellite rather than...

What’s the connection between “Late Night with the Devil” and a real-life secret society? ( Photo Credit – IMDb )

Caution: spoilers ahead. Additionally, please take the content of this article with a grain of salt, as it essentially incorporates conspiracy theories. While some elements may be grounded in reality, they are heavily intertwined with conjecture. Avoid accepting anything stated here at face value.

“Late Night with the Devil,” the hit horror film that debuted at SXSW 2023, continues to dominate streaming platforms, earning praise and shattering records. Audiences are enthralled by its eerie depiction of a 1970s late-night talk show spiraling into darkness.

Set in the late 1970s, David Dastmalchian plays the host of a fictional show called “Night Owls.” In the movie, his character, Jack Delroy, gets tangled up with a secretive society and makes a deal with them for success using occult means. Even though the movie is made up,...

The former GOP speaker, Newt Gingrich, offered advice for House Speaker Mike Johnson on how he can deal with the “narcissists” in the GOP.

Gingrich attacked hard-right disrupters, calling them “narcissists” and “selfish idiots” while also praising the way Johnson handled an unmanageable caucus.

“[Johnson] has the narrowest majority in modern times, and it’s not a true majority because he’s got six or eight narcissists – people who think that they individually get to screw up everything,” the former GOP speaker told Politico.

He also called out Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) during this interview.

“I think they self-define,” he said of the GOP members. “I’d start with Gaetz, but I would say the list goes on. He’s the super narcissist.”

Gingrich attacked Gaetz for ousting former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on October 3, 2023, and the continued dysfunction.

“The demons that Gaetz unleashed by going after McCarthy are still out there,...

The premise of "Air Force One" — President James Marshall (Harrison Ford) foils terrorists who hijack his plane, John McClane-style — requires national unity. The film calls for you to root for the president and only works if the majority of the audience (i.e. the U.S. population) sees their president as an unimpeachable good guy (pun intended). That is simply not the reality of America of 2024. "Air Force One" screenwriter Andrew Marlowe spoke to Syfy recently about why, to use the cliché, the film couldn't be made today.

"When we were doing it, the presidency and that position was not as politically charged as it is today. And so, I think that there are specific challenges about doing it in the contemporary climate that we would have to figure out."

Marlowe adds he'd only be interested in a follow-up if it reflected the world as is now: "Are we saying something new?...

In a riveting exchange on Friday, Newt Gingrich sat down with Sean Hannity to dissect the bombshell revelations unveiled in Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report, which hit the airwaves on Thursday. The report, laden with unflattering references to President Biden’s cognitive state, paints a concerning picture of the commander-in-chief’s mental acuity. Newt Gingrich Unloads on […]

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Christian Nationalists were out in force at Mar-a-Lago on Friday night, once again demonstrating their proximity to Maga power.

Lance Wallnau — the chief promoter of a “Seven Mountains Mandate” for right-wing Christians to seize control over government and culture — was dressed in a tux and streaming live to his 1 million Facebook followers. The black-tie event was the America First Policy Institute gala at Trump’s Palm Beach estate, where the former president was soon to speak.

As he filmed with his cell phone, Wallnau grabbed co-religionist Jim Garlow — the Maga...

Update: Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Oh) lost ground in his bid to become House speaker, as he again fell short of a majority in a roll call vote.

Twenty-two Republicans voted against him, two more than did so in Tuesday’s vote.

The latest tally was 199 votes for Jordan and 212 for House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

Jordan won over some members who voted against him on Tuesday, but he lost others. It’s unclear whether he will move to a third vote. The House went into recess after the final tally was announced. Jordon told reporters afterward that he hasn’t decided if he will pursue a third vote.

In nominating Jordan, Rep. Tom Cole (R-ok) urged Republicans to end the “chaos” of the past two weeks, calling the Ohio congressman an “honorable man.”

That was a contrast to Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-ca), who blasted Jordan’s role in January...

The office of House Speaker is officially empty, and the Republican Party is in a state of chaos.

On Tuesday, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) became the first House Speaker ever to be fired from the position. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) brought a motion to oust him on Monday, and then he and seven other Republicans voted to ditch the California congressman a day later. The rest of the party was not happy, and in some cases visibly distraught, after the GOP left itself with no leader and no clear path forward.

Dennis Quaid has a scary proposition he wants to share — and it just so happens, Fox News is happy to oblige.

Quaid — star of such films as “The Right Stuff,” “Innerspace” and “The Rookie” — made a return appearance on the network Thursday night to promote an Armageddon-style documentary he narrated about the U.S. power grid, “Grid Down, Power Up.”

“Every aspect of our lives that we take for granted every day is — we’re going to have to deal with it another way. And it won’t be good,” Quaid told Sean Hannity, warning of the dangers involved if the nation’s power grid goes down as the result of a cyberattack, an electromagnetic pulse or “even a massive solar flare.”

Hannity was in full agreement, calling them “attacks we’ve never dreamed of.” You can watch the video interview in the embed above.

But Quaid — surprise! — has answers to the problem,...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has just dropped a bombshell that is sending shockwaves through the political landscape. In a stunning revelation, Gingrich has unveiled critical information about the recent indictment from the state of Georgia involving none other than former President Donald Trump. This indictment, which has sparked controversy due to its implications, alleges […]

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Sacha Baron Cohen is dusting off his beloved character Ali G, Deadline has confirmed.

Cohen’s reprisal of one of his most famous satirical characters will come not via any new film or TV project in development, but rather as part of a stand-up tour that he’s been planning. More concrete details as to how Ali G will figure into his routine, or with regard to tour dates, haven’t yet been disclosed.

First introduced 25 years ago on Channel 4’s The 11 O’Clock Show, Ali G is one of several personas Cohen has adopted to conduct absurdist interviews with public figures ranging from astronaut Buzz Aldrin to football player David Beckham, musician Jarvis Cocker and politician Newt Gingrich. Cohen brought the biggest spotlight onto the character via the sketch series Da Ali G Show, which came to HBO from Channel 4 for its final two seasons, at the same...

Christian evangelist Pat Robertson, who ran the Christian Broadcasting Network and sought the GOP presidential nomination, died Thursday at the age of 93.

His death was confirmed on his network, in a statement from his son, Gordon Robertson, who is also the network’s CEO and president. A memorial service will be held “in the coming days,” he said.

Robertson came to notoriety as the host of The 700 Club, a television channel which filtered guests, news and music through a Christian lens, but which also caused outcry over incendiary statements about 9/11, homosexuality, AIDs and more. That channel later became the tentpole of Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network, which he started as a small station in Virginia and grew into a money-making venture, thanks to contributions from viewers, and a powerful national network with great political influence.

Robertson parlayed that fame into a 1988 run for the GOP candidate for president. He finished...

Election lies appear to be still going strong on Fox News, despite the company’s recent $787.5 million defamation settlement with Dominion Voting Systems. Appearing on Fox, Newt Gingrich claimed — without proof — that Democrats “have a passion for stealing” close elections and told voters in certain Democratic-led states to “assume the [voting] machine will steal as much as it can.”

On Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, Gingrich, a Republican who served as House speaker before becoming Trump’s ambassador to the Vatican, said that it is “probably almost impossible under current...

A former Republican Speaker of the House has come out in defense of former President Donald Trump, calling the recent indictment against him politically motivated. Newt Gingrich, a well-known conservative commentator, claims that the focus, substance, and motive behind the indictment is simply a continuation of the establishment’s seven-year war against Trump. “The Big Government […]

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A jury has found former internet troll Douglass Mackey guilty of violating people’s constitutional right to vote by disseminating memes encouraging Democrats to vote via text in the 2016 election. The decision comes after more than four days of deliberations.

During the two-week trial, the prosecution presented testimony by MicroChip, a co-conspirator-turned-cooperating witness, who was identified by only his social media handle. On the stand, MicroChip spoke of his mission to sow chaos ahead of the election, driven by his hatred of Clinton, according to reporting by the New York Times.

One of the guests on "James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction" was George Lucas. In his conversation with the program's host, the creator of "Star Wars" said he feels there are two varieties of sci-fi: science-focused and social-focused. "I come out of anthropology, so my focus is social systems," Lucas explained.

A lifelong lefty, Lucas' politics guide his work. In that aforementioned interview, Lucas confirmed to Cameron that part of his inspiration for "Star Wars" was the Vietnam War — the Rebel Alliance is the Viet Cong and the Galactic Empire is America. In 2005, during the release of "Revenge of the Sith," he summed up the story of the "Star Wars" prequels in an interview with the Chicago Tribune: "Democracies aren't overthrown; they're given away."

During "The Phantom Menace," Palpatine/Darth Sidious (Ian McDiarmid) orchestrates his rise from Senator to Chancellor. In "Attack of the Clones," when his term limit is approaching,...

Last November, in a gesture that the actor himself described as “a symbolic, silly thing,” Sean Penn gifted one of his two Academy Awards to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to mark his emotional investment in the country as they continue to fight Russia’s invasion — attracting widespread mockery from social media and the entertainment press in the process. That this moment is not included in Penn and co-director Aaron Kaufman’s “Superpower,” a disordered, distinctly Penn-centric account of recent Ukrainian history, counts as one of the film’s few moments of self-awareness. As far as the rest goes, anyone watching this doc right after emerging from a two-year coma could be forgiven for identifying the Hollywood veteran as a key player in the conflict.

The sincerity of Penn’s interest in, and concern for, Ukraine is not in doubt. Having begun shooting on the ground in 2021, some months before war...

It’s been almost a year since Russia shocked the world by launching an invasion — or “special military operation,” per Vladimir Putin — of Ukraine, touching off a bloody and devastating conflict that is still very much ongoing, with no visible end in sight.

The fog of war is so thick it’s hard for any of us to see through it, and in that sense, the documentary Superpower, co-directed by Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman, serves as a decent primer as to how the conflict started, what the stakes are and who remain the key players, with a special focus on Ukraine’s unlikely hero of a president, Volodymyr Zelensky.

But after sitting through the two-hour-long exposé, one could perhaps be mistaken in thinking that another key player in the war is Penn himself, so much is the Hollywood star present in nearly every scene in the film that doesn...

Kevin McCarthy’s as-yet fruitless bid to become the GOP Speaker of the House is a once-in-a-century shitshow. The last time the House failed to select a Speaker on a single ballot was back in 1923.

McCarthy’s humiliation is historic, but it’s not out of keeping with a Republican party whose turbulent rule over the House of Representatives has been marred by crisis, coup attempts, and criminality since the 1990s.

The “Republican Revolution” of 1994 ended 40 years of Democratic dominance in the House. But it installed a party whose ideological...

Updated with latest: January 6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson told reporters the committee has set its final meeting for Monday, at which is will refer charges in “five or six categories” to entities such as the Justice Department. He indicated the referrals were still being finalized, but that they would be made public at today’s gathering.

Watch the proceedings here:

The committee will also vote to publish the long-in-the works report detailing its findings. Assuming that is approved, the report will be made public two days later.

Previously On October 13: The Congressional Committee Investigating the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol will hold what looks to be its final hearing before the mid-term elections tomorrow, October 13 at 1 p.m. Et. It is expected to last for about two hours.

A tweet from the committee today promised tomorrow’s conclave will be used to “present the key facts...

Whoopi Goldberg and the other co-hosts of “The View” could not fathom why Republican representative of Missouri Vicky Hartzler opposes gay marriage so strongly that she broke into tears and called the Respect for Marriage Act “misguided and dangerous.”

On Wednesday’s show, Goldberg said, “I’m not sure why we’re fighting this again … You want to decide who [other people] can marry? Back up. This is America … Not everybody believes what you believe. And if we’re going to celebrate religious freedom, get out of the way of other people’s religious freedom. Not everybody believes that that’s not a right way to go. If you don’t [approve of gay marriage], don’t marry a gay person, Ok? It really is that simple.”

Joy Behar added that Hartzler’s stance is probably why she lost her bid for the Senate in August. “She’s not interested in the fact that between Newt Gingrich...

As Republicans pour party resources into the Georgia Senate runoff, Donald Trump is getting irritated at the idea that virtually no one of importance in the GOP wants him to campaign in Georgia.

In the lead-up to the contest between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Trump-endorsed challenger Herschel Walker, several GOP figures and Trump allies have already implored him not to hold a Georgia rally ahead of the runoff, according to two people familiar with the matter and another person briefed on the situation. Trump — who helped recruit Walker to...

The woman who accused Herschel Walker of paying for her abortion in 2009 is now revealing that the Republican senate candidate from Georgia urged her to have a second one.

On Friday, Walker’s ex-girlfriend told New York Times that Walker asked her to terminate her pregnancy in 2011, but she refused, kept the baby, and ended her relationship with Walker. She also claims that Walker has been absent from the child’s life.

“As a father, he’s done nothing. He does exactly what the courts say, and that’s it,...

Herschel Walker has based his Senate campaign around his faith, which includes a belief that abortion is tantamount to murder. It didn’t bode well, then, when The Daily Beast reported on Monday that the Trump-endorsed football star paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion. Walker denied the allegation, but his team walked back the idea of filing a defamation lawsuit, his conservative son said he was “lying” about it, and Politico reported on Tuesday that his campaign has known about the issue for months.

Nevertheless, Republicans have lined up to...

If Reverend Donald Wildmon of the far-right American Family Association was to be believed in 1991, the United States government had, via the National Endowment for the Arts, financed gay porn. The movie in question was Todd Haynes' "Poison," a triptych of short stories riffing on the work of homosexual writer Jean Genet, and, you probably won't be surprised to learn, was as far from a skin flick as "A Man for All Seasons." The truth, however, didn't matter. That Haynes' was an out gay flmmaker who'd received taxpayer money to make a movie examining the "panicky fright" of a society that could not, for the most part, accept the strangeness (i.e. non-straightness) of their fellow human beings infuriated religious bigots like Wildmon. They could sense the cultural tide was turning against them, so they rallied their hateful base to protest a handful of drop-in-the-bucket government grants.

"Poison" was just...

Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker and contributor to Fox News, said in a segment on the network Monday that Americans were too smart to fall for the Jan. 6 committee and the messages created by their “Hollywood producer” as the panel meets again in advance of more hearings this month.

But the consultant Gingrich was referring to, whether mistakenly or in an effort to mislead Fox News viewers, is not a Hollywood producer. He is a former longtime broadcast journalist.

The topic was broached when show host Brian Kilmeade asked Gingrich whether the committee had reached out for his potential testimony, as a former adviser to Donald Trump during his presidency.

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“Well, my attorneys are working all that out. I’m not directly engaged with the committee,” Gingrich said. “But I will say, there has...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s obsession with defending Russian President Vladimir Putin and former president Donald Trump hit a new low on Monday’s edition of Carlson’s nightly show. During his opening monologue, Carlson recycled a baseless conspiracy theory that it wasn’t Russia that carried out a cyberattack on the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential campaign, but instead a Democratic insider who stole DNC emails “from within the building” and “who wanted to show the world how Bernie Sanders was being shafted by the very same...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who according to The Washington Post is now counseling Republican leadership in Congress ahead of the 2022 midterms, threatened jail time for members of the Jan. 6 committee investigating the attack on the Capitol.

“You’re gonna have a Republican majority in the House, a Republican majority in the Senate. And all these people who’ve been so tough and so mean and so nasty are going to be delivered subpoenas for every document, every conversation, every tweet, every email,” Gingrich said on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures.

The former head of the ACLU discusses some of the movies – and sports legends – that made him.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Mighty Ira (2020)

The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)

42 (2013)

Shane (1953)

Panic In The Streets (1950)

Last Year At Marienbad (1962)

The Seventh Seal (1957)

La Strada (1954)

Wild Strawberries (1957) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

The Virgin Spring (1960) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

The Last House On The Left (1972) – Darren Bousman’s trailer commentary

A Walk In The Sun (1945) – Glenn Erickson’s review

Paths Of Glory (1957) – George Hickenlooper’s trailer commentary, John Landis’s trailer commentary

All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) – Ed Neumeier’s trailer commentary

Lonely Are The Brave (1962)

Casablanca (1942) – John Landis’s trailer commentary

On The Waterfront (1954) – John Badham’s trailer commentary

12 Angry Men (1957)

Inherit The Wind (1960)

Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)

Witness For The Prosecution (1957)

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

The Verdict (1982)

Twelve Angry Men teleplay (1954)

The Front (1976)

Judgment At Nuremberg teleplay...

Jedediah Bila has moved from the weekend edition of “Fox & Friends” to a collecting letters to her son, citing a desire to help people find common ground through simple conversations.

Bila, who also did a stint as a co-host on ABC’s “The View,” has a new book, “Dear Hartley,” billed as a collection of 52 letters to her son that address “everything from character and empathy to parenting and friendship, from education and family to fitness and food.” The book will be published in November by Center Street, an imprint of Hachette Book Group that has a recent track record of publishing work by other conservative authors ranging from Donald Trump Jr. and Jeanine Pirro to Newt Gingrich and Pete Hegseth, who remains a co-anchor on the program Bila left.

Center Street bills the author as “an independent thinker” who “has always been an outspoken proponent of common sense and truth,...

Washington — Barbara Boxer will be the first to tell you how much she loved the filibuster. Boxer, a California Democrat, won her first election to the U.S. Senate in 1992. Two years later, the so-called Republican Revolution swept into Washington, D.C. Soon, Boxer and her fellow Senate Democrats found themselves beating back one retrograde bill after another, sent their way from the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and its new speaker, Newt Gingrich.

Boxer remembers one deregulatory bill that would have undermined standards for mammograms. Women’s health was a priority for her,...

As California’s recall election got into full swing on Tuesday, Governor Gavin Newsom obliquely addressed the release of the first campaign ad from Republican challenger Caitlyn Jenner.

Asked by a reporter if he had seen the spot Newsom responded, “I haven’t had a chance to look at it.” He suggested to the reporter who posed the question, “You’ll have to send me the video.” The governor then went on to list all of the things on his plate besides the recall.

“Look, I’m focused on cleaning this state up, preparing for wildfire season,” he said, before reconsidering and saying, “So perhaps you shouldn’t send me the video. I’ll take that 3 minutes and focus on the needs of [firefighters].” Newsom’s press conference was held with members of the California Professional Firefighters union which represents more than 30,000 first responders. Union leaders strongly endorsed the governor at the event.

Former President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump has joined Fox News as a contributor, an announcement made when she appeared on Fox & Friends on Monday, as she also said that she is still considering running for Senate in North Carolina.

Trump was senior adviser to her father-in-law’s reelection campaign.

“Welcome to the family, Lara,” co-host Ainsley Earhardt said in the segment.

“I sort of feel like I’ve been an unofficial member of the team for so long,” she said. “You guys know, it was kind of a joke over the past five years, I would come there so often that the security guards were like maybe we should just give you a key. So to be part of the team I am so, so excited.”

Sen. Richard Burr (R-nc) is retiring and will not seek reelection in 2022. Lara Trump was asked about reports that she is considering running.

The case for ending the Senate filibuster rule is based not on simple partisanship but out of concern for American democracy. Partisanship becomes a problem when normal political parties place narrow self-interest so far above all other considerations that the nation obviously suffers as a result. And, in truth, both parties have long deployed the filibuster — the provision in the Senate’s rules that effectively requires a supermajority of senators to guarantee passage of most legislation — when they find themselves in the minority. In normal times, the parties have normalized the filibuster,...

Former Vice President Mike Pence will narrate a four-part limited series on the life of Rush Limbaugh for Fox News Media’s subscription streaming service Fox Nation.

The four-part series is called the Age of Rush, and will drop on March 10. Pence is a former radio host himself, and others featured in the project include Limbaugh’s producer, James Golden, aka “Bo Snerdley,” as well as radio hosts Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Brian Kilmeade, Mark Steyn and Larry Elder. Also contributing to the special will be Fox News Channel anchor Bill Hemmer, MediaBuzz’s host Howard Kurtz and Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich.

According to Fox News, the special will be divided into four parts: “The Spoken Word,” focusing on Limbaugh’s first big break when he got his radio show; “Revolution,” focusing on his impact on the 1994 midterms; “Rise of the New Right,” zeroing in on the Obama years; and “A Blessed Life,...