Something strange happened the day Angela Alsobrooks, the Democratic nominee for Maryland’s open Senate seat, obtained the Washington, D.C., home at the center of an ongoing property tax scandal. As Alsobrooks tells it, she received the home from her grandmother in November 2003, when the senior became too old to live alone. Alsobrooks, who now
One ad lauds a Conservative Party candidate who suspended his campaign to endorse GOP nominee Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and Hakeem Jeffries / Getty Images Left-wing groups linked to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) and former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to boost third-party libertarian
Taxpayer-funded nonprofit tells drug users: ‘It never hurts to have a boofing buddy!’ Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, who has described his Republican opponents as “weird,” gave taxpayer funds as Minnesota governor to a nonprofit that provides “booty bumping” kits for drug users to ingest drugs through “the butthole.” On May 14, Walz announced
‘Tehran is naked right now, the ayatollah has no clothes,’ expert says after Jewish state takes out Iranian air defenses Benjamin Netanyahu (Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images) Israel’s long-awaited counterstrike on Iran destroyed large swaths of the Islamic Republic’s air defenses, including Russian-made missile systems, leaving Tehran more vulnerable than ever to future strikes by the Jewish
I gave up reading American literary fiction when its authors gave up writing it. The novel was born with its subject, the bourgeois individual. When it became uncool to be bourgeois and individual, literary novelists abandoned realism (the means of portraying society) and plotting (the ends of the individual’s story). What remained was character (subjective
The British author and satirist Craig Brown deserves credit for inventing a new style of royal biography in 2017 with his irresistibly readable Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret. (In his native country, it had the superior title Ma’am Darling.) This new genre, which might be called pointilliste biography, took its subject and, through a series
When Noah Webster published An American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828, it was the culmination of his lifelong mission to declare America’s linguistic independence from Great Britain. A free people with a distinctive national identity required a distinctive language, and that meant fighting off foreign influence, particularly what one author calls “nostalgia for