Former ICE director Tom Homan will serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s “border czar,” overseeing border security and leading efforts to deport illegal immigrants, Trump announced Sunday evening. “I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, calling Homan “a stalwart on
The Biden-Harris State Department organized an in-house therapy session for employees early Friday following Donald Trump’s election victory, four sources with knowledge of the meeting told the Washington Free Beacon. “Managing stress during change,” read an internal State Department email sent across the agency that encouraged employees to attend a one-hour session in which they
Left-wing nonprofits raked in unprecedented revenue during Trump’s first term California Gov. Gavin Newsom talks to journalists before the first presidential debate (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Within hours of Donald Trump’s election night win, a California progressive group rebranded its website to marshal activists against “authoritarianism”—a sign that left-wing nonprofits are once again preparing to rake
When the First World War broke out, Joseph Stalin was as far from the corridors of power as it was possible to be. Exiled in Siberia, this penniless middle-aged Marxist with a flair for bank heists and political assassinations was a failure and he knew it. Likewise, in Germany, another nondescript and undistinguished misanthrope was
“Ungoverning” is a term invented by Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum, political scientists respectively at Dartmouth and Harvard, to describe the project of “deconstructing the administrative state [conducted] by a reactionary movement.” This would include elected Republican officials and Supreme Court justices, aimed at depriving government of the ability to govern. But the individual they
REVIEW: ‘The Seventh Floor: A Novel’ by David McCloskey (Amazon) With his third novel, David McCloskey has established himself as one of the leading spy novelists now in the game. After seven years with the CIA, followed by a stint as a consultant at McKinsey, McCloskey has become a full-time writer. His first novel, Damascus
Quincy Jones, who died on November 3 aged 91, was the last major musician whose working life spanned the arc of 20th-century American music. Jones was born in 1933, only six years after Louis Armstrong recorded “Struttin’ With Some Barbeque,” one of the Hot Five sides that crystallized the centrality of the solo instrumentalist in