Former President Barack Obama’s use of executive power and pursuit of policy changes without the constraints of Congress helped set the table for what Democrats now describe as the “authoritarian” ethos of the second Trump administration. From using the Justice Department to achieve partisan goals to advancing his immigration agenda via executive actions, Obama set the […]
At the 1924 Democratic National Convention, Franklin Roosevelt introduced New York Gov. Al Smith as the “happy warrior of the political battlefield.” It’s been a popular pose on the campaign trail for more than 100 years since then, but another New Yorker chose to strike a different pose in his election night victory speech earlier […]
“Nothing in life is to be feared,” Marie Curie once wrote, “it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” Curie died more than a decade before Stephen King was born, but the Nobel-winning chemist and physicist anticipated the central theme of the horror novelist’s oeuvre. Nowhere is […]
Against all odds, Hollywood has a pretty decent track record when it comes to depicting world history. Of course, no movie can capture a major historical event with full faithfulness and complete comprehensiveness, but the best ones get the big things right. Does anyone doubt that Communism was as bad as it was presented in […]
Multiple people reportedly felt ill after opening a suspicious package delivered to Joint Base Andrews on Thursday. The delivery reportedly contained a white powdery substance. Officials at the base evacuated a building after the package was opened, and multiple people felt ill. Those who reported symptoms were taken to Malcolm Grow Medical Center, where they […]
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that the U.S. military conducted another strike on a suspected drug trafficking boat, this time in the Caribbean Sea. “Today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization,” Hegseth said in his […]
The Congressional Budget Office confirmed Thursday that it was compromised by a hack. “The Congressional Budget Office has identified the security incident, has taken immediate action to contain it, and has implemented additional monitoring and new security controls to further protect the agency’s systems going forward,” Caitlin Emma, chief of media relations for the CBO, […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) announced his prediction for the 2028 Democratic front-runners Thursday evening: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and New York City’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani is ineligible to be president or vice president of the United States, as he was born in Kampala, Uganda. But Cruz insinuated that the constitutional barrier would not matter […]
A federal district court in Iowa ruled in favor of pollster Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register on Tuesday, dismissing a lawsuit brought by a West Des Moines resident who sued the paper over a 2024 presidential poll that showed Kamala Harris poised to defeat President Donald Trump. Published just days before the November […]
The Democratic Socialists of America are celebrating Zohran Mamdani‘s New York City mayoral election win as a “decisive mandate” for their affordability agenda. Mayor-elect Mamdani defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa on election night Tuesday, garnering about 50.4% of the vote as Cuomo earned 41.6% and […]
