Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed this week that “there is precisely zero evidence of any wrongdoing whatsoever” by President Joe Biden. The Associated Press asserted Republicans are “claiming without evidence that [Joe and Hunter Biden] engaged in an influence-peddling scheme.”
Autoworkers launched a historic strike on Ford, General Motors and Stellantis early Friday morning after union negotiations failed. The United Auto Workers and the “Big Three” carmakers failed to reach an agreement before the workers’ contracts expired at midnight, triggering the first simultaneous strike by UAW workers against all three auto giants. The economic cost...
The Chinese Communist Party’s repression in Tibet has escalated in recent months, but there’s a silver lining that might please some Western environmentalists.
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that “the test of a first-rate intelligence is to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” Perhaps this was true of Fitzgerald when he wrote “The Crack-Up,” his 1936 essay on how he lost the plot. Perhaps he had already lost the plot. Anyone can function while holding two opposed ideas at the same time. The easy way to do this is to deceive yourself.