It was a surreal moment — here I was, an FBI agent on the Joint Terrorism Task Force, standing on a street corner in Jersey City, going jaw to jaw with the infamous spiritual leader of the Islamic Group, the “Blind Sheikh,” Omar Abdel-Rahman. An Egyptian cleric marinated in ideological hatred by the Muslim Brotherhood, […]
More than half of Americans whose jobs can be done remotely are working from home at least part of the time. When the pandemic hit, the share of remote-capable workers in the office full-time dropped from 60% to about 20%, and that number has never rebounded. Why don’t Americans want to return to the office? […]
It only weighs about a pound when you first pick it up, and yet Chuck Klosterman’s book Rock* was hard to lift when I went back to it. It grew heavier and heavier. It became a brick, then an anvil. Klosterman is one of my favorite nonfiction writers — our leading Gen X pop-culture critic. […]
Do you remember that scene in Terminator 2 when the Connors are hiding in Mexico, and John Connor, after seeing two boys fighting, asks the Terminator, “We’re not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.” That is how I felt reading the new book Generation Uncoupled by Daniel Cox, the director of the Survey […]
Government unions already wield enormous power in blue states, where they help elect the Democrats who negotiate their contracts and approve their budgets. After Tuesday’s elections, they could wield even more. Ballot measures in Maryland, California, and Colorado would weaken elected officials’ control over union contracts, make a temporary tax permanent, and dismantle limits on […]
Racism has a bad reputation these days. Deservedly so, I should say. If I were to discriminate against, say, Italians just because of all the Italian things they do and say, that would be deplorable. All men deserve to be treated with love and dignity, because all men are created in God’s image. If I […]
Weatherton, TEXAS — Vice President Vance is honing in on his campaign message ahead of Election Day in what many see as a preview of a presidential bid in 2028 that seems all but certain. As Trump has criss-crossed the country for almost daily midterm rallies in the final month of campaigning, Vance’s schedule has...
The candidates with the most at stake in Tuesday's midterm elections won't necessarily be the ones on the ballot. For a growing field of prospective 2028 presidential contenders in both parties, the results could offer an early test of their political strength, their influence within their respective parties and their ability to shape the next presidential race at a...
Republicans on Capitol Hill are poised to clash in the lame duck over how far to push President Trump's agenda. Midterm voters are widely expected to give Democrats control of the House, and maybe the Senate, in the next Congress, which would bring Trump’s legislative agenda to a screeching halt beginning next year. That scenario...
The battle for the House majority will come down to a handful of battleground districts. Republicans are playing defense as they seek to defend their 218-214 majority while facing tough political headwinds. All 435 House seats are up for grabs. Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ), The Hill's election partner, rates 13 House contests as "toss ups."...
An advisor to Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) cannot disinvite his former primary opponent Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) from a scheduled event on Sunday in Detroit, Mich. “This is not Abdul’s event,” Antjuan Seawright, an advisor to Clyburn, told The New York Times Saturday afternoon. “The invitation still stands.” El-Sayed was...
