We already know this rule: You aren’t permitted to leave a museum without running into a gift shop. I also discovered late last week in Paris that you can’t walk out of the newly restored Notre-Dame cathedral without passing a large gift zone near the arrow that points to Sortie de secours. And you can’t […]
At first glance, Blackie & Co.: Blackbirds in My Garden, by the English writer Hockley Clarke, is quite unsurprisingly a nice little book about blackbirds. Namely, two birds, father and son, whose relationship with Clarke began one bitter night in 1962. It was Europe’s coldest winter in 80 years, and, to give the bird a […]
The Army announced Wednesday that its Janus Program has selected five companies to build nuclear microreactors at five military installations, committing up to $2.2 billion to an effort that could eventually put more than 20 reactors across War Department facilities. It is the latest evidence that President Donald Trump’s revival of American nuclear power could […]
President Donald Trump's push to acquire Greenland added a new security dimension to Iceland's EU referendum, with 275,000 eligible voters weighing in.
Video of the assassination of Mexican mayoral candidate Alfredo Cabrera has shocked America. But that murder on Wednesday was only one of many. Some 30 political candidates have been murdered during the present election campaign, which will see voters go to the polls on Sunday. Mexico’s democracy is held hostage at the intersection of rampant criminality and vast corruption. […]
The decision by a Manhattan jury to convict Donald Trump on 34 felony charges concocted by a partisan prosecutor has only underscored the importance of who will join the Republican ticket as the vice presidential nominee. The Thursday verdict has raised the specter that Trump may be imprisoned before Election Day and, at the very […]
The Italian political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli famously mused in The Prince that although it is preferable to have both, it is better for a political leader to be feared rather than loved. A leader who is loved but not feared is easily taken advantage of, Machiavelli writes. But the fear of punishment is far stronger […]
Many Republicans call the actions of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, prosecuting on flimsy grounds the chief rival to the sitting president of Bragg’s own party, unprecedented, but a simple perusal of stores from around the third world shows this accusation against Bragg is false. At the website of Amnesty International, you’ll find this writeup […]
JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania — Despite having to admit he’d never seen the movie Slap Shot, the cult classic starring Paul Newman about a down-on-its-luck minor league hockey team in a dying factory town, Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) literally was standing at the center of the rink where it was made as he pronounced himself bullish about this […]
