George Orwell (né Eric Blair) left England for Burma at age 19, a freshly minted graduate of Eton College, the poshest school in the British Empire. The year was 1922, and Orwell/Blair would remain in Burma until 1927, a member of the imperial police force. What little we know of his time there can be
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is bringing no home-field advantage to the Democratic ticket, as independent voters in his state favor Republican candidate Donald Trump, new polling shows. Independent voters support Trump over Harris by nearly a 2-to-1 ratio in Walz’s state, according to a MinnPost-Embold Research poll released Friday. Forty percent of independents polled say
A little-known super PAC called Future Coalition PAC is airing ads highlighting Kamala Harris’s support for Israel, such as it is. “Vice President Harris has chosen a side—the right side,” a narrator says. “Harris has made herself clear, she stands with Israel and the Jewish people.” Another notes that Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, would be
CUNY professor Marc Lamont Hill defended Hamas during a Congressional Black Caucus panel discussion with Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) on Thursday, calling the terrorist group a “democratically elected organization that has been systematically undermined.” “As a non-Palestinian, it is not my job to tell people how to liberate themselves. It is not my job
Authorities on Friday arrested an anti-Israel protester who was caught on video defacing federal property outside Union Station in Washington, D.C., during Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit in July. Isabella Giordano, 20, used red spray paint to write “Gaza” on the Columbus Fountain and vandalized the base of two flagpoles in Columbus Circle on
A coalition of 10 Senate Republicans is introducing legislation that it says will protect critical components of American energy infrastructure, such as pipelines, from attacks conducted by radical environmentalists, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. The Safe and Secure Transportation of American Energy Act—authored by Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and cosponsored by nine fellow
Pennsylvania senator bars deer hunters, fishermen from seeing some of his Facebook ads U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. speaks at the 2024 DNC (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Sen. Bob Casey bills himself as a champion of Pennsylvania’s hunters and fishers, calling the outdoor sports a “part of Pennsylvania’s heritage.” But on Facebook, the Democrat is blocking