New York House Candidate Brad Lander, Who Pushed a Crackdown on Dangerous Driving, Racked Up 10 Tickets for Speeding in School Zones

Two other vehicles associated with Lander’s office have a combined eight tickets for speeding in school zones, and a spokeswoman said NYC taxpayers footed the bill Brad Lander (cropped, Ryan Murphy/Getty Images) Brad Lander, the former New York City comptroller now running for Congress, championed a law cracking down on dangerous driving near schools. He

Palestinian Authority Has Paid Convicted Terrorists Released as Part of Gaza Ceasefire Deal, State Department Tells Congress

The State Department determined that the PA has violated a long list of its commitments to the United States, including ending ‘pay-to-slay’ and the glorification of terrorism in educational materials Mahmoud Abbas (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) The Palestinian Authority (PA) has paid salaries to convicted terrorists Israel released from its prisons as part of its October

Astonishingly Prolific Anti-Israel Medical Researcher Used AI to Churn Out Journal Articles, Screening Software Shows

A stridently anti-Israel Harvard graduate student used artificial intelligence to churn out at least five of the more than 90 medical journal articles he published in two and a half years, including one about whether newborns have a future in Gaza, a Washington Free Beacon review shows. “The ongoing Israeli military assault on Gaza has

Elizabeth Warren Says Hamas-Praising Maine Democrat Graham Platner ‘Has the Values’ To Serve in the Senate

Warren also said Platner, who posted Reddit comments calling white rural Mainers ‘racist and stupid’ and covered up a tattoo of a Nazi symbol, would bring ‘accountability’ to Washington (Instagram) PORTLAND, Maine—Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) campaigned Saturday alongside Graham Platner, the left-wing candidate in the Maine Democratic Senate primary who has praised Hamas and

That Old Familiar Bern

Even if you loathe Bernie Sanders, you will adore this phenomenal and utterly charming 500-plus page love letter to the state of Vermont and its people. Superbly written—Chiasson is a Wellesley College English professor and a well-known poet—it is also immersively researched, since Chiasson, who’s now 55, grew up in Burlington during the 1980s when

When Trotsky Got the Axe

Most readers of Josh Ireland’s Death of Trotsky will already know the basic outline of the story: Leon Trotsky falls out with Joseph Stalin after Vladimir Lenin’s death in 1924. He proves no match to Stalin; his faction loses critical Politburo debates; he is exiled, eventually lands in Mexico City, where he is assassinated on

Into the Woods

I’ve never been to Maine, and all of the hikes I’ve ever taken can be tallied on one hand. Yet, somehow, in reading How to Survive in the Woods, Kat Rosenfield’s latest thriller, I find myself transported to a dense stretch of forest somewhere along the Appalachian Trail. Not the postcard version, the one with