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Obama Center engineer fires back at online critics ripping architecture as ‘monstrous insult’

The Obama Presidential Center's structural engineer says boldness was the goal, calling the tower's design an unprecedented architectural statement.

JD Vance reveals what drew him back to God after seeing Christians had life ‘figured out’

Vice President JD Vance reflects on his faith journey in new book 'Communion,' sharing how Christianity gave him purpose after years of chasing success.

Trump says vandals used chemicals to damage newly renovated reflecting pool near Lincoln Memorial

President Trump says vandals damaged the recently renovated reflecting pool near the Lincoln Memorial, saying chemicals were used on the newly installed surface.

After Assad: Syria’s sectarian reckoning

On the anniversary of Bashar Assad’s fall, a small group of professionals gathered at Aznavour, a restaurant in Damascus’s Old City. Red light washed over stone walls as hookah smoke hung in the air and a television cycled through Arabic music videos. They had come to talk about what had changed in Syria — and […]

The wish to be like Wolfgang: Review of ‘Amadeus’

Playwright Peter Shaffer (1926-2016) chased the same idea for 30 years. A mild-mannered, rule-bound protagonist meets a counterpart who is wild at heart. Our hero is at first repelled but soon becomes fascinated, envious, even obsessed. Theatergoers who remember Five Finger Exercise (1958), The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964), Equus (1973), and Lettice and […]

Campaigns get in the game

You don't have to rely on The Discourse to know whether soccer is finally being embraced by America. Political ad spending targeted to catch...

Obama’s Irrelevance

‘He has taken a complete back seat in an era that his own co-partisans define as a hinge point on the future of the...

The Senate and Majority Rule

The president is quintupling down on his demands that the Senate pass the SAVE America Act.

The Fantastical Abstract World of the Democratic Socialists

When you ask Darializa Avila Chevalier to make concrete sense of her worldview for anyone who doesn’t subscribe to her outlook, she can’t do...

A Unanimous Court Draws the Line on Disarming Drug Users

This case inspired strange bedfellows, with pro-drug organizations allying with gun-rights groups, so perhaps it’s fitting that it’s also a case where Justices Thomas...

Boston College historian compares White House UFC event to 19th-century lynching

Boston College historian compares White House UFC event to 19th-century lynching: "It's not really a stretch to say that the same impulse that created the UFC fight on the White House lawn is the impulse that really pushed lynching in the late 19th century..."

Trump shows off newly refurbished Qatar-donated Air Force One jet

President Trump on Friday introduced the newly refurbished aircraft donated by Qatar that will serve as Air Force One, calling it a "flying White House with a level of luxury no one has ever seen before."

Tax the rich? California voters will decide in November; other states could follow

The anti-billionaire movement has taken hold in California, where voters provided enough signatures to force a landmark ballot initiative that would levy a one-time, 5% tax on the state's richest residents.

The frustrated filmmaker who changed political advertising overnight

Before the dust even settles in the Los Angeles mayor's race, the unlikely breakout star may be Charles Curran.

Tulsi Gabbard: Fauci lied to Congress, directed Wuhan research funding

TULSI GABBARD says FAUCI lied: "The COVID pandemic caused tremendous hardship and pain for millions of our fellow Americans and countless people around the world. Now, after years of lies and censorship and cover-ups, the American people deserve transparency, truth and accountability."

Rep. Thomas Kean set to return to Congress June 30 after three-month illness

The House's missing lawmaker, Rep. Thomas Kean Jr., will be returning to Washington by the end of the month after leaving Capitol Hill more than 100 days ago.

Double endorsement drama: Trump backs second candidate in red state’s GOP gubernatorial runoff

Trump endorses both Wilson and Evette in South Carolina's GOP gubernatorial runoff, hedging his bets ahead of the high-profile Tuesday contest.

Schiff silent on Biden-era Newsom probe report as California AG claims DOJ ‘weaponization’

California AG Bonta claims Trump weaponized the DOJ against Gov. Newsom, calling the federal probe political persecution despite California origins.

Transgender former New Hampshire state representative sentenced to 33 years for child sex abuse: report

Transgender former New Hampshire lawmaker Stacie Marie Laughton sentenced to 33 years for sexual exploitation of children at a Massachusetts daycare.

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