If writers should be judged by their words, then Tom Arnold-Foster’s comprehensive and engaging “intellectual biography” of the legendary journalist Walter Lippmann renders a complete, balanced, and mostly justified verdict. A history fellow at the University of Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute, Arnold-Foster trains a critical eye on the varied and voluminous scribblings of Lippmann, whose […]
Police in New York are investigating car bomb threats against Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, according to a Thursday release from his campaign. Mamdani said a repeat caller has been leaving “alarming” voicemails. “While Zohran does not own a car, the violent and specific language of what appears to be a repeat caller is alarming...
Protesters at “an event at Princeton featuring former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett” called Jewish students “‘inbred swine,’ among other slurs” as they disrupted...
President Donald Trump prostrated himself before Vladimir Putin following a threat by Russia‘s leader to commit new war crimes in Ukraine. Trump’s relevant post followed his call with Putin on Wednesday. Noting that the two leaders had discussed Trump’s effort to secure a new nuclear agreement with Iran, Trump added that “we discussed the attack […]
California is still wrestling with its affordability crisis and has a gas price catastrophe hanging over the state’s future. California Democrats, meanwhile, are focused on letting murderers out of jail early. The California State Senate voted 24-11 to pass the “Youth Rehabilitation and Opportunity Act.” That whitewashed title is for a bill that would allow […]
A teenage competitor who has transitioned from male to female was able to compete in a California state championship as a girl, against girls, over the weekend. The California Interscholastic Federation rule changes last week made it so that the young woman who would have otherwise won first place shared the podium with the transgender […]
President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account on Tuesday to criticize Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) for being reluctant to support the much-ballyhooed “big, beautiful bill.” The rebuke stems from the senator’s hesitation to vote for the bill over concerns that it will have significant negative ramifications regarding the country’s national debt. When Trump […]
You see the same pattern over much of the world. In three consecutive presidential elections in the United States. In the latest polls in Britain, where the 2016 Brexit referendum was the first notable outbreak. In France‘s most recent national election and in Germany’s. In Canada’s election last month. And maybe in Poland and South […]
Britain and the United States will soon meet to seek progress on a trade agreement that the two nations negotiated last month. While the general 10% U.S. tariff on most other U.K. goods remains in place, the agreement aimed to reduce duties on British-made steel, aluminum, and cars. One tariff, however, was left untouched: Scotch. […]
In 2020, Azerbaijan launched a surprise attack on the Armenian-governed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. In 2023, after a devastating blockade, it completed its conquest, ethnically cleansing 120,000 Armenian residents and then dynamiting the regional parliament lest the real democracy it represented spread into Azerbaijan. When Yuri Kim, the acting assistant secretary of state, told the U.S. […]
Greta Thunberg, the 22-year-old who gained fame as the world’s favorite mentally unstable climate advocate, has joined 11 activists in a mission to break “Israel’s siege” of Gaza. On Sunday afternoon in Sicily, Thunberg, adorned in a keffiyeh, boarded Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s sailing boat Madleen and departed for Gaza in a bid to raise “international […]
