The prisoner CNN’s Clarissa Ward purportedly discovered and helped free from a secret Syrian facility last week is actually an intelligence agent who served in Bashar al-Assad’s regime and helped the brutal dictator torture and kill civilians, a Syrian news watchdog said Sunday. While searching a secret Damascus prison in the wake of Assad’s fall
The Human Rights Campaign, which lauded Buttigieg as ‘historic,’ suggested Bessent is a ‘threat’ to ‘LGBTQ+ people’ Scott Bessent meets with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. (Getty Images) President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, is about to make history as the nation’s highest-ranking gay official. And yet America’s top LGBT groups, which celebrated
Democratic lawmakers are seeking to hinder a federal watchdog investigation into misconduct within the Biden administration’s $400 billion green energy loan program—a sign Democrats could be growing concerned about what the long-running probe has uncovered. The inspector general for the Department of Energy has spent over a year investigating the Loan Programs Office, which has
The historic defamation settlement that President-elect Donald Trump won from ABC News on Saturday is a major embarrassment for George Stephanopoulos, the former whiz kid Clinton aide and ABC star whose on-air remarks led to the settlement—and whose outsized compensation has long caused disgruntlement at ABC amid an accelerating ratings decline. On Saturday, ABC agreed
In Storming the Ivory Tower: How a Florida College Became Ground Zero in the Struggle to Take Back Our Campuses, Richard Corcoran poses a pivotal (and potentially generational) question: Is higher education in the United States of America at a tipping point? Across a political career spanning multiple decades, Corcoran served as Sen. Marco Rubio’s
As I was nearing the end of Christine Rosen’s The Extinction of Experience and starting to think about the focus of this review, I woke up one morning having strained the trapezius muscle in my upper back. It was probably some combination of weightlifting, toddler-transporting, and hunching over my devices that did it. (Being an
“I think it is fairly obvious,” Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in 1940, “that women have voted on most questions as individuals and not as a group, in much the same way that men do, and that they are influenced by their environment and their experience and background just as men are.” Eighty-five years later, it seems