REVIEW: ”Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History’ by Chris Whipple Getty Images The amount of effort that went into helping Joe Biden prepare for the CNN debate on June 27, 2024, is farcical in retrospect. Hell, it was farcical at the time. The campaign built a
In a hole in the ground there lived some hobbits—not a nasty, dirty, wet hole. Silicon Valley isn’t known for those. But a respectable place in a respectable town—and yet, somehow, these hobbits ended up going out on a great adventure. They may have lost the neighbors’ respect, but they gained…well, you will see whether
The Trump administration told a judge that ‘foreign affairs cannot operate on judicial timelines.’ Ongoing battles over the legality of the Trump administration’s deportations of illegal immigrants have fostered conditions for a constitutional showdown questioning where judicial authority ends and the executive’s begins. In Washington, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has suggested that in order
Democrats back Judge Dugan, while Republicans cautioned others who attempt to obstruct federal immigration enforcement. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle weighed in on the April 25 arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan. FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X that Judge Dugan was arrested on charges of obstruction based on
The cancellations are in line with Trump’s directive to end DEI policies in the federal government. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) grants under the Trump administration, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said in an April 26 post on social media X.
Both leaders spoke positively of their meeting. U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a brief one-on-one discussion inside St. Peter’s Basilica on April 26 before convening with other leaders to attend Pope Francis’s funeral. The conversation took place before the funeral Mass began, at a point in the morning when the
An unhappy marriage: Radical Islam and communism “are strange bedfellows,” writes the Hudson Institute’s Mike Watson. “Nonetheless, across much of Asia, an increasing number of countries are welcoming both,” as this week’s jihadist attack in Kashmir makes clear. “Pakistan is the classic example of this nexus,” Watson writes. “Its intelligence services allegedly supported the Taliban