One of the more curiously inapt proverbs, especially as it applies to politics, is the idea that, while success has a thousand fathers, failure is an orphan. We know, in fact, from the thousands of accounts that pour forth after every presidential election, that the paternity of electoral defeat in particular is litigated over as
Chuck Schumer can’t catch a break. Not long after being sworn in as the first Jewish leader of the U.S. Senate, the Democratic Party came down with a bad case of anti-Semitism. It inspired him to write a book, Antisemitism in America: A Warning, in which he recounts how John F. Kennedy’s assassination really dampened the
You might say that Churchill’s Citadel, by Katherine Carter, is a book about Chartwell, a house in the lovely Kentish Weald, just 24 miles southeast of the Houses of Parliament in Westminster. You might also say that it is a book about Winston Churchill himself, who fell in love with the ramshackle Henry VIII-period pile
A judge awarded $6.6 million combined to four whistleblowers who sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on claims he fired them in retaliation for reporting him to the FBI.
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Protesters attend a “Hands Off” rally to demonstrate against President Donald Trump on the National Mall, April 5, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in cities across the United States in opposition to the policies of Mr. Trump, in the largest protests since he returned to the
The nationwide ‘Hands Off!’ protest against the Trump administration featured more than 1,000 planned demonstrations at locations in all 50 states. WASHINGTON—Thousands of protesters gathered around the Washington Monument in Washington on April 5, as part of the nationwide “Hands Off!” day of protest against the Trump administration. As the crowds pressed in, several Democratic
A Justice Department lawyer who was arguing the Trump administration case over a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador has been indefinitely suspended.