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America’s Political ‘Teams’: Not Fit to Play

Trump’s legal-defense team, Biden’s ‘business’ team, and the House Republican-leadership team are all fundamentally unserious, at a time when we face serious challenges.

Israel war: There is a difference between treating civilians as targets and treating them as collateral damage

In the war between Hamas and Israel, innocent civilians, including women and children, are dying on both sides of the Israel-Gaza border. But no fair person should draw a moral equivalence between Hamas's actions and Israel's.

Red or blue, Democrats have grand plans for diverse voters in your state

The goals create a floor — not a ceiling — for diverse representation at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August.

DeSantis rips Trump for criticizing Israel, calling Hezbollah ‘very smart’

Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis (R) railed against former President Trump for calling the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah "very smart" and criticizing Israel. "Terrorists have murdered at least 1,200 Israelis and 22 Americans and are holding more hostage, so it is absurd that anyone, much less someone running for President, would choose now to attack...

After 2016 and 2020, can we still trust the polls? 

Recent polls suggest that President Biden and former President Donald Trump are running neck and neck in a 2024 rematch. But can such polls be taken seriously? 

Israel preparing for ground operations ‘if decided’: IDF

The Israeli military said Thursday it is preparing for ground operations should the political leaders order one — a move that would likely escalate the ongoing battle with Palestinian militant group Hamas. Lt. Col. Richard Hecht, the international spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), told the media forces "are preparing for a ground maneuver...

Top colleges’ silence makes them complicit in antisemitic campus activism

Current events are making evident an unfortunate rot in America's academic life.

Putin’s fingerprints are all over the Hamas attack

The evidence for Russian involvement in this atrocity is circumstantial, but present.

NASA shows off samples from near-Earth asteroid delivered by spacecraft — and there’s more to come

If you can get a scientist to say "wow," then you're in pretty impressive territory. And according to NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid researchers, they've been saying "wow" quite a bit since their asteroid sample landed on Earth.

Morning Report — Will Scalise get to 217?  

House Republicans on Wednesday nominated Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) to be the next Speaker, sending his candidacy to the House floor amid a backdrop of internal division, congressional paralysis and international crisis. A week after Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) stunning ouster, Scalise secured the nomination by a vote of 113-99 in a closed-door GOP...

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