Arizona prosecutors say an illegal immigrant was indicted after toxicology allegedly showed drugs in her system following a crash killing her daughter.
In December 2020, then-President-elect Joe Biden was very concerned about what outgoing President Donald Trump would do in his final days in office. Specifically, as he told CNN’s Jake Tapper at the time, Biden was worried that Trump would use the pardoning power to insulate himself, his family, and his associates from any comeuppance for […]
When Joe Biden shockingly, and yet somehow unsurprisingly, pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, in December 2024, many called for the outgoing president’s impeachment. Writer Jonah Goldberg contended, for instance, that if that welcome development were to come, “Congress would assert its primacy, and send a clear signal that the sort of corrupt self-dealing that both […]
For a long time, I was an Olympic fencer. Then, I became a Michelin-star chef. No one asked me how I managed to julienne my vegetables while wearing an epée glove or if, given my busy schedule, I ever picked up the wrong weapon and impaled my opponent with a carrot. I was a swordsman by day […]
The oddest thing is happening in Britain: Donald Trump is becoming popular. The man was almost universally abhorred during his first term. Leftists loathed him, naturally. But so did most rightists, partly for his character and partly for his policies, above all his soft spot for Vladimir Putin, his ambivalence about NATO, and his hankering […]
There’s a quote that’s been flying around the internet since President Donald Trump was reelected: “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” Attributed to Sinclair Lewis, it’s usually posted by people who don’t much like the flag or the cross, and so they would love to […]
Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio during his confirmation hearings about how he intended to approach the challenge of the Iranian regime. After a brief rundown of various geopolitical situations, Rubio highlighted the attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump. Rubio was not coy: “Let us not forget that [Iran and its […]
We are Americans, and we could destroy any country that mistakingly tried to go to war with us. We’re proud about that, but we also value our privileged position: protected from most of the world by two oceans. America’s political class has always been more internationalist than the populace — more open-borders, more ideologically free-trade, […]
President Donald Trump said he wants to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin soon to close in on a peace settlement for the war Russia started by invading Ukraine. However, Trump’s secondary interest is to establish a more effective relationship between the United States and Russia. Both ambitions are worth pursuing. A more effective U.S.-Russia relationship might lead to new and enforceable nuclear arms […]
Contrary to the attitudes of many of my colleagues in the academy, academic freedom and independence are not rights or entitlements. They result from a political bargain and one that has become more fraught in recent decades. Essentially, the bargain goes like this: Academics will independently cultivate, curate, expand, and disseminate knowledge from the sciences […]
One of my favorite things to do when I have an evening all to myself is to sit with a book at the bar at my favorite restaurant. It’s an old-fashioned, low-key kind of pleasure — the very best kind, in my experience — and when I was younger, it’s exactly what I imagined being […]
The bar for actors aging gracefully in Hollywood is not particularly high. Many legends have tried and failed. Against his better judgment, Cary Grant consented to appear opposite the far-younger Audrey Hepburn in Charade, and against all standards of common decency, Burt Reynolds attempted to prolong his fading stardom by donning a toupee. By contrast, […]
During former President Joe Biden’s chaotic, hopelessly inadequate evacuation effort in Kabul, I was bombarded day and night by messages from many Afghans who served with our military or with the elected Afghan government. Could I get them on one of those planes? Could I help to arrange asylum? Would I at least help evacuate […]
In 2021, Netflix’s miniseries Squid Game immediately established itself as one of the most upsetting television series ever made — and one of the best. The South Korean show’s new second season is a needless and unsatisfying, if sometimes interesting, coda to one of the most important television series of the streaming era. Three years after […]
