On November 2, 1963, South Vietnamese military officers murdered their president of nine years, Ngo Dinh Diem, and took control of the nation’s government. The American hand was invisible at the time, but regime change came to fruition only because of active encouragement by the U.S. ambassador, who believed that a coup would improve South
I know nothing about primate anthropology, but I did know a primate anthropologist. She took me into the rainforests of southern Uganda, where we spent several afternoons lurking in the shrubbery and watching a troop of chimpanzees. When we got too close to the mothers and babies, the males chimped out. They got up on
George Orwell, in his immortal 1946 essay “The Prevention of Literature,” delineates a distinction between two types of attackers of intellectual freedom, both real but one in a sense more real than the other. “On the one side,” he writes, “are its theoretical enemies, the apologists of totalitarianism, and on the other its immediate, practical
The face-off between Donald Trump and whoever is actually leading the Iranian regime entered a new phase this week. Tehran initially rejected the administration’s 15-point peace plan, then said it might eventually respond to it, and American paratroopers and Marines are on their way to the Middle East. The prospect of U.S. troops setting foot
The outlet included the cartoon in a round-up of the week’s ‘best.’ It also features Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu with an exaggerated nose. Politico logo (X), cartoon (politico.com) Politico published a cartoon on Friday featuring anti-Semitic imagery in an attempt to criticize the war in Iran. The image depicts President Donald Trump, Israeli prime
‘It’s not kosher for Passover’ matzo A screenshot of the New York Times headline touting its “not kosher for Passover” “matzo” recipe. March 27, 2026 image/svg+xml The New York Times food section is celebrating the Passover holiday by recommending a recipe for “matzo” that the newspaper itself acknowledges is not kosher for Passover. At least
The former first lady, who has a new memoir coming out, was unable to provide medical care Jill Biden (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) A Secret Service agent escorting Dr. Jill Biden, former acting president of the United States, reportedly “shot himself” in the leg Friday morning at the Philadelphia airport. The incident raises some