2009—In an interview in the New York Times Magazine, Justice Ginsburg offers this, er, interesting comment why she was “surprised” by the Court’s 1980 decision in Harris v….
Kyiv endured one of the deadliest nights of the entire war in Ukraine overnight Wednesday-Thursday, as Russia unleashed 74 missiles and 496 long-range drones on the Ukrainian capital. At least 20 people were killed and more than 90 injured. An apartment building collapsed after a direct hit and damage occurred across 33 locations, overwhelmingly residential […]
At 13, Alicia Kozakiewicz snuck out of her house to meet a “friend” she’d met online. He wasn’t a friend. He abducted her, chained her in a basement, and tortured her. Alicia’s family, neighbors, and the FBI turned the world upside down to find her, and within days, she was pulled out of that basement […]
As part of America’s 250th anniversary, The New York Times spotlighted eight consequential Americans, examining their influence on the nation through the lens of their shortcomings. Among them was one of the U.S.’s most influential conservative women, Phyllis Schlafly, who mobilized millions of women in grassroots politics while raising six children. They insinuate Schlafly to […]
China in late June added 10 U.S. companies to its export control list and barred government procurement from nearly 50 American firms, its latest response in the growing technological rivalry between Washington and Beijing. The move came after the Pentagon blacklisted dozens of Chinese companies with alleged ties to China’s military. Neither side should be […]
King Charles III has quietly revealed the problem at the heart of modern Britain. In the latest Sovereign Grant Report, Buckingham Palace states that the king is supreme governor of the Church of England and “protects the space for faith within the multi-faith nation.” That may sound inclusive. But it also marks a subtle and […]
It is no accident that the Supreme Court made a rare and possibly unprecedented decision to post Trump v. Slaughter and Trump v. Cook online at the same time on Monday. The first decision held that the president has the power to fire agency heads. The second created an exception for the Federal Reserve. Usually, […]
A few years before World War I, the man who I am named for left a remote corner of the sprawling Russian Empire and hopped a steamship across the Atlantic Ocean. It’s lost in family lore and century-old records whether my great-grandfather left Eastern Europe as Alexander Zhdanov, Alexander Zhdanowski, or something else entirely. Yet […]
America’s educational system has clearly failed, judging by the recent comments of 29-year-old lawyer Melat Kiros, who just won a Democratic primary in Colorado...
Critics insist the Trump administration has bungled its response to the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela because of the lack of USAID. But those critics...
