‘If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned,’ the vice president-elect said. Vice President-elect JD Vance on Sunday said that individuals who were violent during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach “obviously” should not be pardoned. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to use his clemency power for people who have been
A coalition of women’s sports advocacy groups are asking for help in reforming NCAA rules beyond the scope of a favorable court decision. A coalition of female athletes and women’s advocacy groups has asked President-elect Donald Trump for his help in demanding that the NCAA “restore fairness and opportunity to collegiate sports.” In a letter
The back-to-back hearings are likely to prove the first major test of Trump’s second term in office as Republicans grapple with a slim majority in the Senate. More than a dozen of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees will face confirmation hearings in the Senate next week. The back-to-back Senate hearings are likely to prove the
A dozen of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees will face confirmation hearings in the Senate this week. The back-to-back Senate hearings are likely to prove the first major test of Trump’s second term in office, as some of the president-elect’s selections have stoked controversy on both sides of the aisle in recent months. Premium Picks
Whenever I meet journalists who’ve recently acquired the intel beat, I pity them. The conundrum before all journalists covering senior U.S. officials—criticism versus future access—is acutely true for those covering intelligence since the avenues of access are often severely limited. Congress is always the best bet for getting info on sensitive projects because partisan disagreements
Elliott Abrams’s book If You Will It: Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood for the 21st Century focuses on the great challenges facing American Jewry. Those challenges are not the acute ones—pro-Hamas protesters that make the already overpriced elite four-year college experience an ever worse deal, or the growing acceptance of anti-Semitic violence and vandalism. These are serious
Roughly up until the heyday of John le Carré, the British spy novel tended to follow an approved pattern. A well-educated but bored man, somewhere between youth and middle age, would find himself caught up in an international conspiracy that would involve some, or all, of the following: duplicitous intelligence officers, untrustworthy foreign powers, a