A federal judge said Friday that the Justice Department (DOJ) can release audio recordings and transcripts of former President Biden to the conservative Heritage Foundation but must wait three weeks to allow an appeals court to review Biden’s challenge. Judge Dabney Langhorne Friedrich denied Biden’s attempt to block the release of his decade-old conversations...
President Trump claimed on Saturday that multiple individuals have been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as he seeks to deflect blame for ongoing water quality and maintenance problems stemming from a recent multi-million renovation project. “The United States Park Police have arrested multiple individuals for vandalizing our Nations magnificent Reflecting Pool,” Trump...
Last summer, Superman was held in a pocket dimension on the verge of collapsing Metropolis. In 2016, Captain America, the symbol of our nation, was on the run from the government. In 2014, a U.N. body was infiltrated by a Nazi organization that survived from the 1940s. In 2012, the World Security Council dropped a […]
“The reputation of Dawn Powell may be doomed to a perpetual state of revival,” wrote John Updike in the New Yorker in 1995. The underappreciated and somewhat forgotten American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, who was born in Ohio in 1896 and died in 1965, may not have found the fame she deserved during her lifetime. Reading A Time […]
America’s financial aid framework wouldn’t look much different if it were crafted by the late Paul Ehrlich, the false prophet who warned of overpopulation and mass starvation. Ehrlich wanted the tax code to discourage large families: the dependent exemption should apply only to the first two children, and a luxury tax should be levied on […]
The Great Fair of 1876, or the Centennial International Exhibition, was a celebration of 100 years of American achievement. Nearly 10 million visitors traveled to Philadelphia to view intricate exhibits related to agriculture, art, machinery, mining and metallurgy, and more. America’s past, present, and future were all celebrated and on display for the entire world […]
Antisemitism in Philadelphia schools is such a systemic problem that even CNN is paying attention. The district is under congressional investigation for its failure to handle this rampant antisemitism. Jewish students are bullied, and Jewish teachers are harassed. Now, Jewish organizations are suing the Department of Education for failing to hold the district to prior […]
Whatever else they are, they are not economists. Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Piketty, and the other 350 signatories of an anti-poverty manifesto have given up on any claim to that name. An economist is someone who studies the production and distribution of goods and services, someone who analyzes the voluntary transactions we make in pursuit of […]
Politicians from both parties have been able to avoid Social Security’s impending insolvency for decades because bankruptcy was still years away. It was a little over the horizon, and for our irresponsible politicians, out of sight has been out of mind. But according to the latest Social Security trustees report this week, bankruptcy is upon us now. […]
For years, policymakers focused on one question: Will Iran build a nuclear weapon? The recent war revealed a different reality. Tehran’s most effective strategic asset may not be its nuclear program at all. It is the Strait of Hormuz. The mere possibility of disruption in Hormuz can move oil prices, increase shipping costs, raise insurance […]
The just-passed spending bills actually mean $277 billion in outlays, not the $268 billion Gov. Kathy Hochul’s team originally claimed — and they knew...
