NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Pro-Palestinian protesters at Yale University this weekend occupied a World War II memorial, tore down an American flag that flew there, and sent a Jewish student to the hospital as administrators stood by and refused to break up the protest, which violated several university rules. The protest on Beinecke Plaza—a quad in the
This rich and sometimes compelling book touches on multiple newsworthy themes, but its central thesis will come as no surprise to anyone who closely follows U.S. politics. Joe Biden “ran for president as a staunch moderate,” but since taking office he has “applied his pragmatic moderate branding on a far more left-wing set of policy
What if Lincoln had lived? That is a question about which historians have given conflicting answers. Allen Guelzo suspects he would have guided the sections along a path toward reconciliation, while guaranteeing voting rights and citizenship to freedmen across the South, in a manner that would have foreclosed the sectional hostilities that arose as a
In the mid-1980s through early-1990s, no mortal exhibited electric masculinity like Randall Mario Poffo, the wrestling superstar better known by his stage name: “Macho Man” Randy Savage. Savage was a showman’s showman. A championship performer known for sounding like a “choking grizzly bear,” in the words of his biographer Jon Finkel, while cutting fight promos
The U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday with broad bipartisan support passed a $95 billion legislative package providing security assistance to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The legislation now proceeds to the Democratic-held Senate, which passed a similar measure more than two months ago. The Senate is expected to pass the measure next week, sending it
‘We do not feel safe walking to nor around campus’ Pro-Palestine students at Columbia (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Columbia University students are calling on the school’s president, Minouche Shafik, to restore order as chaotic protests and violent clashes near campus plague the Ivy League institution. Columbia students wrote in a Friday letter that they do not feel safe
Sue Altman now says ‘the border is a crisis’—but blames Republicans Sue Altman (Facebook) Before she ran for Congress, Sue Altman (D., N.J.) wanted illegal immigrants to receive taxpayer-funded COVID relief funds. Now, Altman says it’s Republicans’ fault that the border crisis—which has exploded during President Joe Biden’s administration—hasn’t been solved. Altman, the presumptive Democratic