DNC chair downplays socialist–moderate rift as Mamdani’s rise has some Dems rattled
Ken Martin defends Democratic Party's big tent approach amid concerns over progressive candidates like NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani's socialist agenda.
Pentagon Confirms Strike on Another Drug Boat in Caribbean, Killing 3
A U.S. military strike on a drug-laden vessel in the Caribbean on Nov. 2, 2025. Screenshot via The Epoch Times/X/Department of War The U.S. military carried out a strike on a vessel it said was smuggling illicit narcotics to the United States, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirmed in an X post in the early
Rising Electricity Costs Emerge as Key Campaign Issue in New Jersey, Virginia Races
The Amazon Fort Powhatan solar farm in Disputanta, Va., on Aug. 19, 2022. Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Nov. 4 New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races are being closely watched, as they spotlight issues that could determine how campaigns nationwide approach the 2026 midterm elections. In both mid-Atlantic states’ elections, voters’ chief concerns include taxes, health
Rising Electricity Costs Emerge as Key Campaign Issues in New Jersey, Virginia Races
The Amazon Fort Powhatan Solar Farm in Disputanta, Va., on Aug. 19, 2022. Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Nov. 4 New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races are being closely watched as they spotlight issues that could determine how campaigns nationwide approach 2026’s midterm elections. In both mid-Atlantic states’ elections, voters’ chief concerns include taxes, health care,
Supreme Court to Consider Defense Contractor’s Liability in Terrorist Attack
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 20, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Should federal law protect defense contractors from facing lawsuits over alleged failures to prevent a terrorist attack? That’s a question the Supreme Court is expected to take up on Nov. 3 when the justices hear oral argument in Hencely v. Fluor
The Last Time New York Hit Rock Bottom
Jonathan Mahler’s first book, the 2005 Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning, was a work of historical journalism that re-created the summer and fall of 1977. Mahler interweaved the story of the New York Yankees World Series-winning season with the chaotic events in the city that year, including the Son of Sam murders, the
A Book So Bad It Shattered Liberals’ Faith in DEI
Karine Jean-Pierre can’t stop making history. Earlier this year, the former White House press secretary became the highest-ranking openly queer, French-born black woman with a hyphenated surname to publicly renounce the Democratic Party for being mean to Joe Biden. She is the only black female lesbian immigrant to publish a book about her time in