The film’s overemphasis of the 18th-century's dearth of hygiene feels like smoke and mirrors. It has little new to say about upward mobility.

'Sheepdogs' is a fast-paced, globe-trotting comedic thriller about two hapless ex-soldiers stealing a plane.

In 2001, the State Department designated the FARC as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group and as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1997.

"This week it became very apparent that the Intergovernmental Leaders’ Forum is a dysfunctional farce, a pointless talkfest established to placate key stakeholders while all the real decisions are made by the state government behind closed doors," he

Commentary Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault has decided Canada needs a plastics registry. But what he isn’t telling you is that while it may be possible to track the production of plastics, it is well-nigh impossible to detect where these materials are sent for disposal. If you think all those plastic bottles that […]

Asked about these claims during his presidential announcement on Twitter, DeSantis called the claims "a total farce." "Claiming that Florida is unsafe is a total farce," DeSantis said. "I mean, are you kidding me?

Mandating masks that don’t work is a farce.

Though the project is not without teething problems, with the Lord Mayor of Brisbane stepping down from the event’s Intergovernmental Leaders Forum in 2023, calling it “a dysfunctional farce, a pointless talkfest established to placate key stakeholders

Blinken said the designations of two new terrorist groups—which call themselves Segunda Marquetalia and the FARC-EP, or the "people's army"—will remain. The groups have evolved as splinter factions of the FARC.

“This course is a complete expensive farce and we should never have embarked on it in the beginning,” he added, calling for it to be scrapped.

On Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned Venezuela's congressional election as “a political farce.” “On December 6, the illegitimate Maduro regime in Venezuela staged a political farce intended to look like legislative elections.

According to Yuan Hongbing, a Chinese academic and vocal critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) living in Australia, the WHO investigation in Wuhan was akin to "a farce staged by the Chinese regime."

So continues the farce that has already made doctors responsible for one of every hundred deaths in Canada.

Time to stop this farce and let people travel in peace!" he wrote last week on Twitter.

It is really getting old, being forced to constantly justify having doubts about the election. The people who say an audit will jeopardize our vote and is fraudulent are the same ones that forced us to put up with a four-year investigation of the 2016 election. Are we wrong to have our doubts? Obama received […]

She suggested the reduction could come at the expense of international students, a major source of income for universities, describing the intake system as a "farce" and a "scam" providing a back door into the nation.

It’s a choice that borders on farce rather than suspense. Up until the closing chapters, many readers could be forgiven for assuming that the book is headed toward a fairly generic conclusion; it’s enjoyable but unsurprising.

According to Yuan Hongbing, a Chinese academic and vocal critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) living in Australia, the WHO investigation in Wuhan was akin to “a farce staged by the Chinese regime.”

Originally produced by London’s National Theatre of Great Britain back in 2012 and later brought to Broadway's Music Box Theatre the same year, this side-splitting farce was available, free of charge, on the small screen via YouTube.

Commentary For more than a year, various media outlets, journalists, and social media personalities have spun narratives outlining how special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is preparing major indictments of people affiliated with the Trump campaign for collusion with Russia through WikiLeaks’ publication of stolen Democratic emails. Story after story supposedly detailing damning new evidence obtained […]

Despite plenty of fun, for a farce to work, it needs to be played at a frenetic pace—but that’s not always the case here.

But a group of dissident FARC commanders never demobilized and have seen their ranks swell to around 2,500 fighters through recruitment.

Animal rights campaigner Rob Pownall, who stands in elections dressed as a fox, announced he was dropping out of the election in July, saying that what was “already something of a farce” had now become “a circus.”

Moscow Rejects Accusations A March 25 statement from Russian Foreign Ministry ambassador-at-large Rodion Miroshnik said that “accusations against Russia of ‘deporting or forcibly relocating Ukrainian children’ have long since turned into a complete farce

On Oct. 22, ex-politicians—some of whom were held by the FARC for several years—formally presented their accounts in over three hours of oral testimony.

News Analysis North Korea’s new willingness to hold talks with South Korea is either a ploy to buy time or hold off a possible U.S. invasion—or both—according to two experts. Much has been made of North Korea’s sudden willingness to talk to South Korea. Some commentators are calling it a diplomatic breakthrough. Meanwhile, the participation […]

They say the government has not done enough to stop other criminal groups and FARC dissidents filling the void and taking over the drugs business.

Moreover, the performances do Wilde’s farce proud. Chad Bay as Jack and August Foreman as Algernon portray their characters with great seriousness, which makes their pretense all the funnier.

Political decisions and changes are made behind closed doors, and China's dubiously elected "People's Congress" rubber stamps them with mundane uniformity—usually passing laws by a 95 percent to 100 percent margin—a farce of democracy.

Margot’s farce works for a while. Then a rustic young artist from Ohio, Jeff Thompson (Melvyn Douglas), is attracted to her. He stumbles upon her ruse and shows up at her family’s door pretending to be Tony. She’s married to him, isn’t she?