Following one of the most embarrassing debate performances in modern American history, it was widely understood that President Joe Biden’s semi-unscripted press conference at this week’s NATO summit was the most important on-camera moment of his campaign, let alone his presidency. Both the speech and the round of questions that followed went exactly as expected. […]
AT&T CEO John Stankey should have resigned over the catastrophic data leak that AT&T announced on Friday. Seeing, however, as Stankey is evidently more concerned with keeping his $26 million-a-year job than taking responsibility for his firm’s catastrophic failure, Congress should urgently summon him for questioning. To understand why this leak is so serious, consider […]
PITTSBURGH — In September 1987, Jill Biden stood stoically beside her husband Joe at a press conference in Manchester, New Hampshire, where the then-senator from Delaware was being pressed by dozens of print and television reporters about his future after he was caught stealing other politicians’ words without giving them credit, embellishing his academic record, […]
In May, Mayor Melvin Carter of St. Paul, Minnesota, posted a screenshot of his student loan balance: $0.00. “Thank you, Mr. President!” he wrote. President Joe Biden had not, of course, paid off the mayor’s student loans. Carter’s debt relief came courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, who have been shouldering the burden of these debts following […]
Under the headline, “How Biden’s Stumbles Collided With a Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory,” the New York Times reports Friday that “far-right social media is rife with outlandish, unproven stories of Democratic crimes and rigged elections. Most of those ideas fizzle over time as they fail to come true. But every now and then, one of those […]
In Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) continued attempt to cosplay as a man of the people, the banker’s son stands at odds with former President Donald Trump, the 2024 GOP nominee-in-waiting. Hawley recently blasted Trump’s signature legislative achievement, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, as not just a policy failure but heretical to religious […]
As a Midwestern suburban kid born during the Reagan administration, I grew up with no direct contact with cowboys, covered wagons, or the open trail. The only horses I ever came into close contact with were the coin-operated mechanical ones installed outside of supermarkets. In all the ways that matter, I am pure greenhorn. Nonetheless, […]
The past several months have provided much fuel for political fears both at home and abroad. But there is one worrisome political development in particular that has received too little attention: Are we in danger of a protest song revival? In May, for instance, the rapper Macklemore released “Hind’s Hall,” a song about the pro-Palestinian […]
The year 1989 was a watershed year in China, as it was in communist Eastern Europe, where the Berlin Wall fell that November and the Solidarity movement won Poland‘s first free elections since the end of World War II. In China, there was the massive student-led uprising against the Communist Party-controlled government at Beijing’s Tiananmen […]
Fredericka Mandelbaum, or Marm as she was known, was one of 150,000 Jews who left Germany and came to America in the mid-19th century hoping to escape antisemitism, restrictive laws, and poverty. When she arrived in New York City in 1850, Marm found conditions for women even worse than in Europe. Or at least for […]
The debate over the greatest athletes of all time typically fixates on familiar names and revered figures from various sports, those whose exploits are extensively documented in the media. People recognize Michael Jordan and Babe Ruth for their persistent dominance in their sports. Yet amid these well-publicized personas, there exists a notable absence of recognition […]
Labour’s Keir Starmer has won the British election, raising questions about the next chapter in the “special relationship” between the United States and the United Kingdom. For all the talk of these ties between British prime ministers and American presidents, the truth is, it’s a pretty recent invention. Throughout America’s first century, England was seen […]
It’s universally acknowledged that anyone sitting next to a person who is using a device — phone, laptop, whatever — is allowed to spy. If you’re tapping away on something, expect to have your emails and texts peered at by your seatmates. That’s the price we all pay for having private conversations on a public […]
So much for Europe’s swing to the right. In Britain, the Conservatives were not just thrown out, but subjected to the worst beating in the 190 years of their existence, winning 121 seats to Labour’s 411. In France, contrary to expectations, the snap parliamentary elections were won by the extreme Left, who took 188 seats, […]
