The order comes after the Supreme Court found Missouri, Louisiana lacked standing to block the Biden administration communicating with social media companies. A federal judge will allow two states suing the federal government over allegedly encouraging social media platforms to censor user views to do the further discovery needed to keep their lawsuit alive. Discovery
Former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg urges Europe to boost defense spending and strengthen transatlantic ties as Trump returns to power. Former NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has urged European leaders to step up their defense spending commitments to keep the transatlantic alliance strong in the face of threats, and to support President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to
The poll queried more than 3,000 national and swing state voters between Nov. 6 and Nov. 7. An exit poll released by Democratic polling firm Blueprint outlined the top three reasons voters nationwide gave for not supporting Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, in her 2024 bid for U.S. president. The leading issue for
When the First World War broke out, Joseph Stalin was as far from the corridors of power as it was possible to be. Exiled in Siberia, this penniless middle-aged Marxist with a flair for bank heists and political assassinations was a failure and he knew it. Likewise, in Germany, another nondescript and undistinguished misanthrope was
“Ungoverning” is a term invented by Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum, political scientists respectively at Dartmouth and Harvard, to describe the project of “deconstructing the administrative state [conducted] by a reactionary movement.” This would include elected Republican officials and Supreme Court justices, aimed at depriving government of the ability to govern. But the individual they
REVIEW: ‘The Seventh Floor: A Novel’ by David McCloskey (Amazon) With his third novel, David McCloskey has established himself as one of the leading spy novelists now in the game. After seven years with the CIA, followed by a stint as a consultant at McKinsey, McCloskey has become a full-time writer. His first novel, Damascus
The official sharply criticized the campaign’s messaging while raising more than $1 billion in roughly 100 days, and going into debt. Democratic National Committee (DNC) official Lindy Li said on Nov. 9 that party donors feel “misled” about Vice President Kamala Harris’s chance at winning the 2024 presidential election after it raised a record amount