Given how spectacularly wrong they’ve been proven over the past two generations, you would think the anti-population crowd would be pretty chastened. And to be fair, it is getting quieter and more modest in its aims. Back in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, and even into the 1990s, it was chic to freak out about […]

When al Qaeda and Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praised America’s pro-Hamas students, they were applauding something larger than collegiate intramural hate teams. They were relishing the results of a multibillion-dollar scheme that began before Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel — one that will likely continue long after the last campus encampment is cleared.  The […]

It’s not only the economy, stupid. Especially when the economy may already be improving. Republicans this year seem to be over-enamored of Democratic strategist James Carville’s wisdom from the 1992 presidential race, when he famously insisted that then-candidate Bill Clinton’s campaign forget left-wing wish lists and instead focus on the relatively weak economy under then-President […]

Until its final act, Karin Ainouz’s Firebrand is a phenomenal and frankly overdue retelling of how the final wife of Henry VIII barely escaped her unwanted marriage with her head intact. The real and unbelievable saga of Catherine Parr, the last of the English king’s six wives, is woefully untold, and when fictionalized, usually as […]

At 35 years old, Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla became the youngest NBA head coach to win a championship since Bill Russell achieved the same feat for the Celtics in 1969. The second-year head coach led the Celtics to a 64-18 regular season and a 4-1 series win over the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals. Though the […]

While the war in Ukraine grinds on, Russian spies are fighting on another front. Throughout Western countries, Russia’s intelligence agencies emulate earlier Soviet Cold War tactics and show the influence of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s KGB training on his foreign policy. Using deep undercover agents, sabotage, assassinations, and coups, Russia is working hard to extend […]

A group of 13 senators introduced a bill to criminalize the publication of revenge porn, including deepfakes, and requiring websites to remove these explicit videos and photos.  The effort to pass the (TAKE IT DOWN) Act is led by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who is the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, and...