Michigan’s Elissa Slotkin, Under Pressure From Anti-Israel Activists, Shields Facebook Ads From Voters With Jewish Interests

Slotkin prioritized ads for users interested in ‘Islamic studies’ Rep. Elissa Slotkin speaks at the 2024 DNC (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D., Mich.) will need all the help she can get to clinch victory in her competitive race for Michigan’s open Senate seat in November. But there’s one portion of the electorate she

Millions of Dollars, Classified Information, and Biometric Data: Inside What the Biden-Harris Admin Left Behind in Afghanistan

The Biden-Harris administration abandoned $57.6 million in American funds, a “significant amount of classified information,” and advanced biometric data that enabled the Taliban to hunt down nearly 500 former Afghan officials during its bungled 2021 withdrawal, according to the findings of a three-year long congressional investigation. The report, published Monday by the House Foreign Affairs

A War of Words

In Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words, Anne Curzan tackles a pile of hard questions about grammar and usage. Her tone, however, is upbeat. A linguist, a language historian, and a writing professor, Curzan is the anti-vigilante of usage critics. For years, she has been writing and talking

More Crazy Rich Asians, Please

Singapore’s success is the key to its security—and ours Joe Biden and then-Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore in 2022 (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) SINGAPORE—City states have largely disappeared from world politics. Over the centuries, technological and economic advances made great powers rich and strong enough to impose their will far away from their home

She Was Mum About It for Years. Now, Democratic Senate Candidate Elissa Slotkin Opposes CCP-Tied EV Plant.

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D., Mich.) said Thursday that she now opposes an electric vehicle battery plant project tied to the Chinese Communist Party after avoiding taking a position on it for years and signing a hush agreement to participate in negotiations about it. “To me, until there’s a national security vetting,