Judge Rules Cornel West Can’t Appear on Ballot in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania is again expected to be a key swing state in the 2024 election. A court in Pennsylvania on Aug. 23 ruled that independent presidential candidate Cornel West cannot appear on the presidential ballot in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state that determines the 2024 election. In a 15-page ruling, Commonwealth Court Judge Renée Cohn Jubelirer

Getting ‘Roe’ Wrong

Reviewing really excellent books is great fun: You learn important new facts, are hugely impressed by an author’s analytical ability or archival research, or come away with a far deeper understanding of someone you knew only passingly. In stark contrast, having to review a really bad book is deeply unpleasant and sticks in your memory

Smugged By Reality

In What This Comedian Said Will Shock You, comedian Bill Maher distills decades of political and cultural insight into a single volume with the goal of tackling the most important issues of our time while remedying any loss of “philosophical coherence” for longtime viewers of his HBO show, Real Time with Bill Maher. Across 24

Judge Allows Exclusion of Word ‘Abortion’ From New York Ballot Measure

A New York judge ruled against requiring the word ‘abortion’ in a ballot measure description for an anti-discrimination amendment. A New York judge has declined to compel state election officials to explicitly mention the word “abortion” in the description of a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at expanding anti-discrimination protections, dealing a setback to Democrats who

For Tim Walz, a Pattern of Prevarications Stretches Back Almost Two Decades

When Tim Walz launched his 2006 campaign for Congress in rural Minnesota, he boasted in his public biography that in 1993, he “was named the Outstanding Young Nebraskan by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce for his service in the education, military, and small business communities.” That was not true. It was a small lie about

Meta Blocks Iranian Hackers Targeting Trump, Biden Staffers on WhatsApp

The hackers were identified as the same Iranian group identified by the U.S. intelligence community for targeting the Trump, Biden-Harris campaigns. Meta said Friday it has blocked a group of fake WhatsApp accounts connected to an Iranian hacker group that was identified as being behind the targeting of staffers working on U.S. presidential election campaigns.