Sydney Sweeney shines as trailblazing boxer in Christy

November 12, 2025

Sydney Sweeney shines as trailblazing boxer in Christy

In David Michod’s latest film, Christy, Sydney Sweeney embodies the title role with ferocity and conviction. “Maybe it’s true,” she narrates between punches in the prologue. “Maybe I have demons inside of me.” The line, delivered mid-fight, encapsulates the film’s theme: a woman’s relentless pursuit of triumph amid the toils of tragedy. Sweeney plays Christy Martin, […]

Will Trump let Mali fall to the jihadists

The third time will not be the charm. As radical jihadis close in on Bamako, the capital of Mali and a city with roughly the same population as Los Angeles, the United States appears woefully unprepared, if not AWOL. President Donald Trump has yet to appoint an assistant secretary of State to oversee and coordinate […]

Why Kazakhstan’s joining the Abraham Accords matters

At first glance, Kazakhstan’s decision to join the Abraham Accords last week holds little relevance. Israel and Kazakhstan have held diplomatic relations for over thirty years, prompting critics to view the latter’s entry into the accords as nothing more than a self-aggrandizing act by President Donald Trump. But there is more to this decision than […]

China’s self-defeating Japan beheading threat

Japan should expel the Chinese consul general to Osaka over his X post that appeared to threaten to behead Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. Xue Jian’s rhetoric goes far beyond the so-called “Wolf Warrior” tendency of Chinese diplomats to aggressively rebuke perceived slights to the Chinese Communist Party and its policies. Xue’s threat followed a parliamentary […]

The Supreme Court may not be eager to dump the Trump tariffs

The oral arguments before the Supreme Court last week added another level of debate to the ongoing arguments among everyone interested in President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Until last week, most of the arguments about tariffs have swirled around the economic impact of the president’s tariffs. But the arguments before the court had very little to […]

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From ‘leverage’ to lies, Democrats were always responsible for shutdown suffering

Democrats tried their hardest to convince the country that the government shutdown was the fault of President Donald Trump and the Republican Party. They relied on every political weapon at their disposal. They used their accomplices in the media. They used celebrities to advance their political narratives. They unleashed their social media army of trolls […]

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