For a right-wing supervillain hell-bent on cultural domination, Christopher Rufo has never made much effort to hide his master plan. The man who turned "critical race theory" into an electoral epithet, Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, is fond of telling the public exactly what he wants to do and how he wants to do it, making his triumphs all the more mortifying for those seeking to arrest them.
The bloody decades of Communist rule over Central and Eastern Europe were made darker by the forced absence of contact with the rest of the continent.
For no particular reason—save, I suppose, his continued literary excellence—George Orwell is the flavor of the month right now. Earlier this year we had D.J. Taylor’s revisitation of his earlier biography of him in Orwell: The New Life, and now we have Anna Funder’s examination of Eileen O’Shaughnessy, Orwell’s first wife and, in Funder’s view, a brilliant woman and crucial influence on her husband’s life and work who has been unjustly airbrushed from history. As she writes early on, "She hasn’t...
Congress passed a stopgap funding bill late on Saturday with overwhelming Democratic support after Republican House speaker Kevin McCarthy backed down from an earlier demand by his party's hardliners for a partisan bill.
New Jersey Democratic governor Phil Murphy unveiled a taxpayer-funded office that aims to turn public school students into "climate leaders," an effort that includes a call for kindergarteners to donate to environmental groups.
Democrats are doing everything they can to prevent President Joe Biden from falling on his ass and injuring himself (or worse) before Election Day in 2024. Alas, the octogenarian commander in chief continued to struggle this week, barely averting disaster while climbing down the elderly-oriented short stairs on Air Force One.
Happy Saturday. Let's check in on the media this past week.
ANAHEIM, Calif.--Former president Donald Trump on Friday cast California as the frontlines of left-wing ideology, vowing to stop electric car mandates and sex changes for kids and “bring back law and order to California.”
The Pentagon must immediately revoke the security clearance of a senior official alleged this week to be part of a secret Iranian government-run propaganda network, a coalition of Republican senators said in a Friday letter to the Department of Defense as they launched an investigation into the matter.
President Joe Biden said he is "crazy" about his grandchildren despite refusing to acknowledge one granddaughter's existence for years.
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz wants his Democratic colleagues to help him oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Politico reports.
President Joe Biden, 80, is excruciatingly old and infirm. In addition to using the short stairs to get on and off of Air Force One, he's also been working with a physical therapist to improve his balance after suffering a series of humiliating falls in public.