Vlad is the villain President Trump’s call for Ukraine to replace its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is a blunder of huge proportions (“Zel: Don on ‘wrong side’ in Vlad deal,”...
There aren’t a lot of distinguished biographies of famous historians. The reading public is largely interested in their works, rather than their personal lives, and while some achieved a certain fame or honor in their time — Thomas Babington Macaulay, Marc Bloch, A.J.P. Taylor, Charles A. Beard, a handful of others — details of scholarly […]
Even before his nomination to the Supreme Court by President George W. Bush in 2005, Justice Samuel Alito was dogged by the nickname “Scalito.” The lazy conflation of Alito with Justice Antonin Scalia, both conservative jurists of Italian-American heritage, was irresistible to journalists who saw the court as a battleground for politics by other means, […]
Every Republican is liable to give you a different answer if you ask them what constitutes their party’s “base.” But from a purely demographic standpoint, it’s indisputable: older, married, working-class white men. The picture of the 2024 GOP electorate from The Associated Press’s now defunct VoteCast (a loss sure to be long lamented) is plain...
Republican senators and candidates have mixed feelings about President Trump’s midterm election convention, with many hoping that Trump can rev up millions of MAGA voters but worried of being tied to a president with a slumping approval rating. Party officials are promising a big turnout of Senate Republican incumbents at this week’s convention, which Trump...
Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City who later worked as President Trump’s personal lawyer, publicly criticized current Mayor Zohran Mamdani for planning to attend a 9/11 commemoration ceremony at Ground Zero on Friday. “Frankly, whatever he’d like to say, he doesn’t agree that September 11th was an Islamic terrorist attack on the...
President Donald Trump made several posts on social media on Monday morning with pictures of statues and landmarks around Washington, D.C., that the National Park Service has been updating. Trump has been emphasizing his efforts to “beautify” D.C., including constructing an arch in his honor, fixing fountains and gold-plating statues, among other projects. Each post...
The construction of a massive White House ballroom is moving full steam ahead after the Supreme Court found a historic preservation group likely had no right to stop it. "We have a lot of very happy construction workers," President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday. The $400 million project on the site of the former...
The political world’s eyes are focused this week on Dallas, where Republicans are turning up the volume at a two-day convention meant to bolster the GOP’s chances in this year’s midterms. The event is being billed as a unifying and electrifying celebration of President Trump’s second term in office that is being put on by...
President Trump posted a map with an American flag covering most of North America, as well as Iceland and islands in the Caribbean, on Monday morning, a post that follows his previous pushes to take over territory outside of U.S. borders. The president’s post featured a map with the pattern of the American flag superimposed...
A fake website claiming to be associated with the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) midterm convention, taking place Sept. 9-10 in Dallas, redirects to the Justice Department’s homepage for the Epstein files. The online bait and switch demonstrates a push from a mysterious source to remind Republicans, or anyone seeking convention details, about the Epstein files. ...
Special envoy Steve Witkoff touted “substantive progress” in the wake of U.S. talks on the Russia-Ukraine war with both sides. “United States negotiators visited both Moscow and Kyiv in order to facilitate additional dialogue to end the Russia-Ukraine War. Ahead of the trip, the Russians and Ukrainians agreed to a three-day no-shoot policy to enable...
President Trump on Monday promised victory in the upcoming midterm elections for the GOP and went after Democrats in a Labor Day message posted to social media. “Happy Labor Day to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, and Dumocrats who will do anything possible to destroy our Country. These Deranged People, after fighting for...
Despite historical progress under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, current workplace safety efforts face significant challenges due to stagnant regulations, insufficient inspection resources, and evolving labor structures.
Backlash to Flock cameras has been growing in recent months, but the surveillance equipment company isn't the only one that may be operating in your neighborhood.
