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...
The political prosecution of Daniel Penny in New York City may have failed, but the chilling effect it will have on public safety, especially in the subway system, will resonate for years. Penny is a former U.S. Marine who found himself in the same subway car as Jordan Neely, a mentally ill homeless man with […]
Over the past two years, pundits, pollsters, the media, and liberal politicians all predicted that House Republicans would lose the majority in 2024. They were proven wrong on Nov. 5, when the public gave President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans a mandate with unified control of government. As members-elect who flipped five seats and secured a Republican […]
Toward the end of A Complete Unknown, a good biopic about Bob Dylan that opened on Christmas, there is a key scene in which Dylan manager Albert Grossman barks at folk music legend Pete Seeger, “You’re pushing candles, and he’s selling lightbulbs,” to which Seeger retorts, “You’re the only one selling anything here, Albert!” The […]
It has been five years since the COVID-19 pandemic sprung out of Wuhan, China, and the World Health Organization is still incapable of doing anything other than begging the Chinese Communist Party to let it view more information about the origins of the virus. The World Health Organization commemorated five years since the start of […]
It is an unfortunate reality that being in the know about celebrities’ affairs takes little to no effort. The common person is over-invested in such news, yet Hollywood has made it so that its divorces are completely negligible. They are a dime a dozen — just about as frequent as Hollywood marriages, and given how […]
For all the heat generated by the recent discussion among Republicans about H-1B visas, there is much agreement within the conservative coalition on the matter. It shows that the incoming Trump administration has thought these matters through and is prepared to make the immigration system serve Americans once again. The H-1B visa program was created […]
At least temporarily on Wednesday, the FBI was clearly concerned that the ISIS-inspired/-directed attack in New Orleans may have been the work of a broader cell of terrorists. Early on Wednesday morning, a U.S. citizen, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, drove a truck at high speed into New Year’s Eve revelers celebrating on New Orleans’s famous Bourbon Street. […]
There's a huge disconnect between the ideological beliefs of black voters and their election behavior that no modern Republican — not even Donald Trump — has...
New Year’s Day is a good time to take a long look backward with a cautious eye toward possible futures. My guide here is Real Clear Politics analyst Sean Trende’s 2012 book The Lost Majority, whose bold thesis was unduly neglected by political scientists spinning tales of a permanent New Deal Democratic majority. Trende’s thesis […]
