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Georgetown cocktail parties have long been a quick and easy target on the right, a stand-in for the establishment culture of Washington, D.C. These parties and the people they represent were an amorphous bogeyman that haunted Richard Nixon, have been criticized by everyone from Newt Gingrich to John McCain to prove their middle America stripes, and are supposedly so irresistible that they

On Thursday, a Russian court sentenced basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in a penal colony. Griner, who was playing in a Russian league during the offseason just ahead of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, was found with about a gram of hash oil and received nearly the maximum sentence after being found guilty of drug trafficking.

Now that the trial is over, Griner’s situation is

Hiring surged in July, with U.S. employers creating 528,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday. That far exceeded economist expectations for gains of 250,000 new jobs during the period. It was also a jump from the previous month, when businesses added 372,000 jobs despite the highest inflation in 40 years. 

The unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5% from 3.6% in June,

The U.S. Department of Transportation proposed a new rule on Wednesday which will help travelers who are seeking refunds for airline tickets.

This new rule comes after a busy and chaotic year for airlines that had trouble meeting demand. Over the summer, airlines also struggled to find workers, including flight attendants and pilots.

Effectively, they could not meet consumers’