Republican Sen. Susan Collins vowed she won't be "intimidated" after her Biddeford office was vandalized, while her Dem rival Troy Jackson stayed silent on the act.
In his biography of Franz Kafka, Max Brod declared that his friend never wrote a “single word” that was not “infused with a special magic charm.” Ever since the posthumous publication of Kafka’s work, work that only saw the light of day because of Brod’s refusal to carry out Kafka’s request to burn his manuscripts […]
During Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to Europe in May, China and Hungary signed several agreements, including a $2.1 billion rail project that will be part of the Belt and Road Initiative. Announced in 2013 under the name One Belt, One Road, the initiative has been central to Chinese foreign policy, even though the program […]
As you may have gotten from our lead essay, this Summer Books issue, alongside a rich compendium of seven reviews of new titles, we are stepping away from the publication calendar to look at old books that we return to. In the special Winter Books issue to come, you can look forward to recommendations from […]
Listen to any Democrat spinning President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance last week, and one of the lines you’ll hear is, “Yes, Biden had a bad night, but Donald Trump repeatedly lied.” To be fair, falsehoods poured from Trump much as usual, but the dichotomy Democrats wish to suggest is a false one. Biden was […]
For most people, the first thing that comes to mind when seeing a picture of the U.S. Olympic swim team should be excitement for a group of athletes who get to live a lifelong dream. But for a group of ever-bitter liberals, there is a problem with the U.S. Olympic swim team: It is too […]
While her husband was holed up in Camp David as Democratic Party kingmakers worked overtime to resuscitate his imploding reelection bid, first lady Jill Biden reminded the world that she is indeed the power behind the throne and, more importantly, why she will push the president, come hell or high water, to Election Day. In […]
Former President Donald Trump’s strongest base of support in the general election, if you divide voters up by age, appears to be Generation X. Trump leads President Joe Biden by 19 points among those ages 45 to 65, roughly Gen X, while the race is within the margin of error for boomers, millennials, and Generation […]
The Summer Olympics are when the United States flexes its superiority over every other country in the world, including our European friends. This year, the festivities are starting before the Games even begin. The U.S. Olympic team will be bringing air conditioning units to the Olympic Village for the Games in Paris, which “undercuts organizers’ […]
