Documents provided by a whistleblower show Ghislaine Maxwell has asked President Trump to commute her sentence as prison employees suggest she has received “concierge-style treatment” at a new facility where she is being given custom meals and access to staff facilities. The request, revealed to House Judiciary Democrats, comes after Maxwell was transferred to a...
The Senate reached a deal to reopen the government on Sunday after eight Democrats joined Republicans to hit 60 votes, drawing backlash from opponents of the resolution.
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer could be in hot water with his party after Sunday's bipartisan deal that is expected to end the government shutdown this week.
A group of Christian leaders will provide a letter to President Trump on Monday morning calling on him and leaders in Congress to act on behalf of the Christians being persecuted in Syria.
“When you’re accustomed to privilege,” people who write for the New York Times like to say, “equality feels like oppression.” Katie Porter, a former Democratic California representative and media darling, learned that when you’re accustomed to coddling, journalism feels like persecution. Porter imploded in an October interview with a CBS News reporter. The moment went […]
Live-and-let-live has always been part of the American ethos, but in recent decades, this laissez-faire individualism has become a prime directive in elite ethics. This is one reason the United States didn’t start wrestling with the baby bust until the past couple of years, a decade after Europe started facing the reality of low and […]
Our brave moral betters in the world of comedy have come to the conclusion that American free speech pales in comparison to the free speech culture of Saudi Arabia, and they have been helped to that conclusion by stacks of Saudi cash. The Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia was a collection of some of […]
Whenever the president is interrupted at an event with a whisper or note from an aide, something significant and possibly historic is afoot. Perhaps the most memorable example in recent times is when White House chief of staff Andy Card approached President George W. Bush on Sept. 11, 2001, while he was reading to students […]
Imagine being married for 13 years, hitting a rough patch for two years, almost getting a divorce, but then reconciling. You think everything is fine. But then all of a sudden, your wife starts bringing up old problems you thought were resolved years ago. It is happening to more and more couples, and the cause […]
Having secured a historic ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, President Donald Trump has manifestly done more than anyone else to deserve the Nobel Peace Prize (not that the prize deserves much respect anymore). This agreement to end two years of conflict will mean the release of the last 20 living Israeli hostages held by the terrorists. In return, Israel […]
Try a small thought experiment. Suppose you were setting out to design a country that bred lots of terrorists. How would you go about it? You would need old animosities, of course, but there are plenty of places in the world that offer those. The key thing, I suggest, would be to prevent any commercial […]
Martin Suarez opens his dramatic account of his life as an undercover FBI special agent assigned to infiltrate Colombian drug cartels from 1988 to 1994, Inside the Cartel: How An Undercover FBI Agent Smuggled Cocaine, Laundered Cash and Dismantled a Colombian Narco Empire, with the August 1994 attempt on his life. “The assassin pointed his […]
With his tall, thin body and his long arms and legs, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) looked more like a bag of bones than a world-famous Scottish author. It was his eyes, though, which suggested his literary genius. His friend Mark Twain called them “Stevenson’s special distinction and commanding feature.” His wife, Fanny, said, “Behind them, […]
In the time between the release of Midnights, her October 2022 mega-blockbuster, and Dec. 8, 2024, when the “Eras Tour” closed in Vancouver, Taylor Swift achieved a level of success beyond what nearly any sane human mind could process. Just as anyone with a normative experience of reality cannot not know what it’s like to […]
Years ago, I met a fellow veteran at a promotion event for one of my novels. The man suffered from traumatic brain injury, sustained in an improvised explosive device attack on his vehicle during his deployment to Iraq. Due to his injury, he wore one of those soft helmets, and he misunderstood basic social cues. […]
For mostly happy reasons, I have spent the past 10 years moving into smaller and smaller living quarters. When I tell people this, they either look at me sadly and think Poor guy is going through some bad stuff, or they brighten and loudly say something like, That’s so great! I wish I could do […]
On Aug. 15, 1824, as the summer sun sank over New York Harbor, a huge crowd pressed against the wharves, straining for a glimpse of the Cadmus. Church bells rang out as the ship eased into view, and on its deck stood the figure they had all come to see: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de […]
