One of the more curiously inapt proverbs, especially as it applies to politics, is the idea that, while success has a thousand fathers, failure is an orphan. We know, in fact, from the thousands of accounts that pour forth after every presidential election, that the paternity of electoral defeat in particular is litigated over as
Chuck Schumer can’t catch a break. Not long after being sworn in as the first Jewish leader of the U.S. Senate, the Democratic Party came down with a bad case of anti-Semitism. It inspired him to write a book, Antisemitism in America: A Warning, in which he recounts how John F. Kennedy’s assassination really dampened the
You might say that Churchill’s Citadel, by Katherine Carter, is a book about Chartwell, a house in the lovely Kentish Weald, just 24 miles southeast of the Houses of Parliament in Westminster. You might also say that it is a book about Winston Churchill himself, who fell in love with the ramshackle Henry VIII-period pile
The nationwide ‘Hands Off!’ protest against the Trump administration featured more than 1,000 planned demonstrations at locations in all 50 states. WASHINGTON—Thousands of protesters gathered around the Washington Monument in Washington on April 5, as part of the nationwide “Hands Off!” day of protest against the Trump administration. As the crowds pressed in, several Democratic
American Muslims for Palestine, Hamas’s ‘propaganda arm,’ organized the rally (@palyouthmvmt / X) WASHINGTON, D.C.—Murals honoring Hamas and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists were featured Saturday at a protest that American Muslims for Palestine, a group recently accused of serving as Hamas’s “propaganda arm in New York City,” helped organize. Several Hamas
President Donald Trump on Saturday called on Americans to “hang tough” through what he described as a difficult-but-necessary adjustment period following his sweeping new tariff policy, which has reset U.S. trade strategy and triggered a global market selloff. In an April 5 post on Truth Social, Trump framed the moment as an “economic revolution,” saying
The commission would consider giving slaves’ descendants monetary compensation, down payment assistance, debt forgiveness, and higher education aid. The Maryland General Assembly gave final approval on April 2 to legislation authorizing the state to form a commission to study the possibility of providing reparations for slavery. Except as punishment for a crime, slavery was abolished