Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a Google employee with insider trading on Polymarket. In a seven-page complaint filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York (SNDY), the Department of Justice (DOJ) alleged that 36-year-old Michele Spagnuolo, a software engineer at Google, exploited his access to confidential, nonpublic data on Google’s “Year in...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has been on a mission lately, authoring numerous bills to protect women and girls. In November 2024, she introduced a resolution to maintain single-sex bathrooms at the U.S. Capitol. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) later made that the official policy of the House, and Mace later introduced legislation to maintain single-sex bathrooms and locker rooms on […]
Last month’s rapid collapse and fall of Syria’s Assad dynasty surprised the world, starting with Bashar Assad himself. Led by the radical Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al Sham and likely galvanized by Israel’s mauling of Hamas and Hezbollah, the rebel victory represents Iran’s third catastrophic defeat in trying to implement its anti-Israel “ring of fire” strategy. […]
“What terrifies me is if ISIS were to detonate a nuclear device and kill 50 million Americans. Imagine the backlash against peaceful Muslims?” This 2016 tweet from the late comedian Norm Macdonald isn’t just a perfect example of his trademark dry wit. No, it was a deeply prophetic analysis of what the West is becoming: […]
Mao Zedong of China was only partly right when he said that “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” He should have added that true national power depends on a strong economy to provide the military with the resources necessary to defeat deadly adversaries. Arguably, Gen. Ulysses Grant was the first modern […]
An Iranian nuclear weapon would be a game-changer in the Middle East. Should the Islamic Republic of Iran acquire nuclear weapons, at a minimum, Iranian leaders would feel so secure behind their own nuclear deterrent that they could export terrorism without fear of retaliation. Iranian assassins could murder Americans worldwide, and even the most hawkish […]
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the attorney general, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt met to discuss expanding the FBI’s domestic surveillance in 1938. They agreed this should proceed “with the utmost degree of secrecy” to avoid public criticism or objections “by either ill-informed persons or individuals having some ulterior motive.” In fact, they decided against […]
As soon as President-elect Donald Trump takes office, he should reverse President Joe Biden’s wrongheaded and arguably illegal decision to block the sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel of Japan. Biden made the long-anticipated decision on Jan. 3, citing spurious “national security” concerns. During the presidential campaign, Trump also said he opposed the sale to Nippon […]
If you’re familiar with the Broken Windows theory of policing, you may have learned of it, perhaps indirectly, from Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller “The Tipping...
New York should be hardening vulnerable public spaces. Instead, the city relies on temporary measures and good luck — leaving us little better prepared...
