Sean Penn urged the White House to take a more aggressive approach toward arming Ukraine, telling a crowd at a screening of his film Superpower that those who are influencing U.S. policy “need to get out of the pure caution business.” “I don’t mind being foolish in saying that I deeply believe, whether Democrat or …
Roughly two-fifths of Americans now believe in UFOs, polls suggest, signaling a resurgence of popular-cultural interest in extraterrestrials possibly buzzing around us. Last week, Congress held an extraordinary (and predictably tabloid-y) hearing on “unidentified aerial phenomena,” a respectable rebranding of “unidentified flying objects,” a topic long associated with conspiracy theory and late-night talk shows. The…