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Revisionist history: Jake Tapper spent years downplaying concerns about Joe Biden’s mental fitness—until the president’s disastrous decline became conventional wisdom and fodder for a book deal. His new release with Axios’s Alex Thompson, Original Sin, documents Biden’s cognitive deterioration and the White House’s efforts to cover it up. But as our Andrew Stiles and Thaleigha

CNN host Jake Tapper has been under fire since announcing he was writing a book about President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and the extensive “cover-up” to convince American voters they were too dumb to see what was happening with their own two eyes. Many have pointed out that Tapper, his network, and the mainstream media

Belated congratulations to the former cardinal Robert Prevost on becoming the first American pope, Leo XIV. Considered a long shot, His Holiness benefited from a little-known Vatican affirmative action plan aimed at his minority group—White Sox fans. Speaking of affirmative action, Jason Riley is out with a new book, The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don’t Need Racial Preferences

Without question, Jason Riley is one of the most prominent black journalists in the United States, rightly known for his weekly columns in the Wall Street Journal. On a consistent basis, he shrewdly dissects the nostrums of many authors, both black and white, who assert that the road to a successful future in race relations

Jens Ludwig is an economist who’s seen some things. A longtime gun-violence researcher who directs the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab, he’s accompanied cops to murder scenes and on high-speed chases. America’s efforts to control gun violence, he argues in Unforgiving Places, are coming up short. Liberals’ focus on “root causes” and conservatives’ support for

Covering up the Biden cover-up.Journalist gets remedial course in human decency.Why Hunter Biden threatened Jake Tapper at the Super Bowl.Ousted DNC vice chair David Hogg reaps what he sows. It’s Friday, May 16, 2025 It was a bad week for Democrats, who are already gearing up for a 2028 primary season that promises to be

Before Isaiah Decastro Nash was arrested for storming a Columbia University library, the philosophy undergraduate dabbled in poetry. “The primordial trauma of existence is the death and rot of God. The corpse of God; the corpse of Death; the corpse of Time; the corpse of the Phallus,” he wrote in “Sociotraumatics,” a 2024 poem published