White House fight night: Trump and UFC complete symbolic merger with birthday spectacularWhite House fight night: Trump and UFC complete symbolic merger with birthday spectacular

Despite a last-ditch legal bid to block the event, the White House spent the night as a marketing department for the private fighting company A warm Sunday night on the South Lawn – with bright lights, fireworks, a fighter plane flyover, thousands of spectators, and the first major professional sporting ...

Disclosure Day: alien conspiracies, car chases and a jaw-dropping climax – discuss with spoilersDisclosure Day: alien conspiracies, car chases and a jaw-dropping climax – discuss with spoilers

Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi blockbuster is a non-stop thrill ride, but did it convince you that we are not alone? • This article contains spoilers for Disclosure Day Six months after a cryptic billboard reading “All Will Be Disclosed” popped up unannounced in Times Square, Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day was finally ...

Trump presides over spectacles of violence like a dysfunctional Roman emperor | Moira DoneganTrump presides over spectacles of violence like a dysfunctional Roman emperor | Moira Donegan

The sordid UFC event represents his own efforts to symbolically fuse the federal government with his person, to insist that he is America and is the state Hitler dreamed of a 1,000-year Reich; Putin is said to have baroque dreams of territorial conquest meant to restore a dubiously historical empire ...