Family members of soldiers killed in Afghanistan withdrawal say the presidential candidate was invited to attend the ceremony and to ‘hear our stories.’ Former President Donald Trump posted videos of family members of fallen soldiers responding to Vice President Kamala Harris’s criticism of his recent visit to Arlington National Cemetery. On Aug. 26, President Trump
As the White House pushes for more cooperation with China on counternarcotics, Chinese drug trafficking networks are growing. President Joe Biden signed a proclamation in August commemorating Overdose Awareness Week, a solemn moment for a nation that has witnessed more than half a million deaths from drug overdose in the last decade. The president hailed
As the White House pushes for more cooperation with China on counternarcotics, Chinese drug trafficking networks are growing. President Joe Biden signed a proclamation in August commemorating Overdose Awareness Week, a solemn moment for a nation that has witnessed more than half a million deaths from drug overdose in the last decade. The president hailed
Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages from a tunnel in southern Gaza where they were killed not long before Israeli troops reached them, the military said on Sunday. The Israeli military announced the recovery of the bodies from underground in the southern city of Rafah. The bodies of Carmel Gat, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Alexander Lobanov,
Griffin Dunne’s memoir bobbed around the bestseller list after it was published in June, and though it’s since slipped off, my guess is the book will prove to have staying power. Like the life of the family he portrays with such affection and humor, The Friday Afternoon Club is divided into two parts. The first
I have been lunching monthly with Joseph Epstein for almost 40 years, so I was particularly delighted to encounter, in this collection of his essays from 1978 to 2023, a description of our first meal together. The conversation, Joe recalled, turned to the cultural “theory” then fashionable in university English departments. “‘Of course I loathe
“History is bunk,” according to Henry Ford. But there is an irony to that quotation—the motor industries patriarch and presidential candidate did not say it. No, when asked about his views on foreign affairs in 1916 the isolationist plutocrat grumbled: What do we care about what they did 500 or 1,000 years ago? I don’t