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FLASHBACK: Former AOC aide challenging Pelosi wore shirt depicting Nazi collaborator

Saikat Chakrabarti, former chief of staff for Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who recently launched a campaign against Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was once pictured wearing a shirt that depicted a Nazi collaborator.

Heartland lawmakers seek to fix ‘fundamental’ roadblock for farm kids seeking student aid

Sens. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and Michael Bennet, D-Colo., along with Rep. Tracey Mann, R-Kan, are sponsoring a bill to adjust the Free Application for Federal Student Aid qualification requirements to halt an unfair disadvantage for farm families.

‘Disturbing’: Whistleblower fumes at Biden-era agency promoting DEI program as department’s ‘mission’

The now archived website for USAID, a department on the chopping block thanks to Elon Musk's DOGE efforts, has a webpage dedicated to promoting DEI across the world.

Too ecumenical?

“On most Sundays,” the rector of an Episcopal church told me last summer with a smile, “most of my congregation is pretty staunchly Episcopalian. But every now and then, they’re Baptists and they don’t know it.” This is what he meant: The Anglican tradition states that during the Eucharist, there is a “real presence” of […]

A miracle drink

In the wake of the tragic crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 with an Army Black Hawk helicopter over Washington, D.C., and the Learjet 55 crash in Philadelphia, I’m reminded of a plane crash during my time in the Afghanistan War and how a group of soldiers with whom I served barely escaped a terrible […]

The ambitious and doomed The Brutalist

Some kinds of creativity are harder to capture on camera than others. Eureka moments are fairly easy to present in music or occasionally in art. Architecture can have its napkin sketch epiphanies, but the fundamental requirement of the profession is then to tweak these dreams to hold up floors and keep out rain, a process […]

The law of rule

What is it about the Wild West that keeps us coming back for more? Surely the popular appeal of the Western, on the page, on the stage, and on the screen, derives at least in part from prurience — the ever-present blood, guts, and sex on prominent display in an untamed land. On top of […]

Britain’s conservative second world war

Although always popular, revisionist history is an area fraught with pitfalls. This is because, fundamentally, most historians are not idiots, and the standard version of history is more often than not broadly correct. Archives may be opened, errors corrected, and characters added to the storyline, but truly revolutionary reinterpretations, at least sane ones, are uncommon. […]

Get thee from a nunnery: Review of ‘Stone Yard Devotional’ by Charlotte Wood

Nuns, Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote in her historical novel The Corner That Held Them, set in a 14th-century English convent, are “beings who are, in any case, much less interesting when seen from above than when studied sideways.” The nun at the center of Australian writer Charlotte Wood’s new novel, the 2024 Booker Prize-shortlisted Stone […]

Farewell, Ruritania: Saying goodbye to Eastern Europe’s exotic aura

Bram Stoker’s Dracula begins with an unsettling journey. As Jonathan Harker crosses the Danube River, he remarks ominously, “The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions […]

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