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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
That thing that never happens . . . keeps happening: Noncitizens voting in US elections. Federal attorneys in Washington state just identified 400-plus noncitizens...
NY GOP surrender New York’s Republican Party, which makes little effort to recruit institutional support, is to blame for the lack of quality candidates in...
The state's decline has accelerated on Hochul’s watch; she’s hopeless when it comes to reining in the ideologues and the special interests slowly eating...
In his recent breakdown of the Republican Party’s internal mechanics, the Washington Examiner’s chief political correspondent Byron York highlighted a stark operational reality: President Donald Trump holds a 95% approval rating among self-described MAGA Republicans. While conventional political coverage filters this data through a lens of partisan triumph or panic, an objective institutional analysis reveals […]
