Gene L. Dodaro is not a household name. He is a mild-mannered man who is rarely seen without a necktie and dark suit, and who speaks in a flat, matter-of-fact tone. He has worked for the federal government since 1973. Yet, his retirement in December may well set off a separation-of-powers battle royale between President […]
Earlier this month, Democrats won decisively in the Virginia gubernatorial election. The party’s triumph in the state was broad-based, as Democrats nearly secured a supermajority in the Virginia House of Delegates. Even Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for attorney general who sent text messages hoping for the death of the children of a political rival […]
The amount of fentanyl being seized by federal law enforcement at the nation’s border has decreased sharply over the past year as President Donald Trump has commanded the government to shut down the border to the deadly drug. U.S. Customs and Border Protection interdicted almost half as much fentanyl in fiscal 2025, which ended in […]
In the 10 months since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has forcibly deported half a million illegal immigrants and compelled another 1.6 million to voluntarily self-deport. And thanks to his crackdown on unfettered student visas and low-skilled J-1 visas, the total temporary “nonimmigrant” population in the country is expected to fall by […]
In Death by Lightning, the new Netflix miniseries helmed by Mike Makowsky of Game of Thrones fame, President James Garfield and his assassin, Charles Guiteau, are opposite poles of the national character, forever united through one of those lurid, violent spectacles for which we Americans have such an enormous tendency and talent. In lesser hands […]
As an adolescent with basic cable in the pre-streaming era, I often found myself watching snippets of unidentified films on Turner Classic Movies. Only one has stayed with me: the end of what I would eventually come to learn was the 1948 film Words and Music, a biographical musical about Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. […]
“The Wrong ICE is Melting,” read one sign hoisted in the air by a white woman in a COVID-19 mask on the streets of Los Angeles. “Don’t Let Democracy Go Extinct,” read a poster held in Omaha, Nebraska, by a very serious liberal in an inflatable dinosaur costume. “Free Palestine, Free DC, Free Us All,” […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said Thursday that militants have handed over the body of one of the last four remaining hostages taken during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that launched the war in Gaza. Israel identified the returned body as that of Meny Godard, who was abducted from Kibbutz Be’eri in southern Israel. His wife, […]
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was on Fox and Friends on Thursday morning to promote his new children’s book, Heroes of 1776. During his interview with Fox News’s Lawrence Jones, Gorsuch discussed the contents of his book, detailing the exploits of some lesser-known heroes of the American Revolution. He then pivoted to the importance of […]
The Portland City Council voted against a measure to halt homeless encampment sweeps during a contentious city council meeting, following a week of jabs back and forth between the Portland mayor and the city council member who proposed the cuts. Three hours of public testimony focused on the adverse effects of tent camping in the […]
