New York will play the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder or San Antonio Spurs in the finals. The Western Conference finals is tied at two games apiece with Game 5 to be played on Tuesday.
History’s winners take a beating at the movies. The post The Ancient Greeks’ Blackened Reputation appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag The Ancient Greeks’ Blackened Reputation History’s winners take a beating at the movies. TakiMag (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images) My friend Michael Mailer is an extremely talented film director and producer, most recently of Cutman and Little Audrey, the latter a true story about a little girl that created miracles. Michael’s father, the novelist Norman Mailer, taught me how to headbutt, and when I asked him if there was brain damage involved, he looked nonplussed. “Writers have harder heads than normal people,” he said. Be that as it may, Norman was a frustrated movie director. He…Open
Recent sanctions will entrench Hezbollah rather than weakening it. The post Washington Risks Inflaming Sectarian Fears in Lebanon appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Washington Risks Inflaming Sectarian Fears in Lebanon Recent sanctions will entrench Hezbollah rather than weakening it. (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images) In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration announced a decision to impose sanctions on officials in Lebanon’s military and security apparatus who are accused of aiding Hezbollah. The sanctions targeted a Lebanese Army general and a branch chief of the Lebanese Armed Forces’ Intelligence Directorate, marking the first time an American administration has taken such measures against members of Lebanese state institutions.…Open
U.S. forces struck missile targets and mine-laying boats in southern Iran on the same day Donald Trump said peace negotiations were “proceeding nicely.”
Three years after riots tore apart Manipur, the state remains in disarray. Barbed wire and armed checkpoints made it difficult for Times reporters to cross, even before the recent clashes.