The 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago kicked off with words that few American voters were eager to hear: “From time immemorial, our ancestors lived in the Great Lakes region,” said Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Tribal Council vice chairman Zach Pahmahmie. “However, in 1849, an illegal auction by the U.S. government forcibly removed our tribe
California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) pledged in October 2022 to combat anti-Semitism “wherever it rears its ugly head.” But when a powerful California National Guard general was credibly accused of denigrating a Jewish subordinate as a “kike” lawyer, Newsom’s Military Department dismissed the allegations on a technicality, and the governor promoted the alleged perpetrator, Matthew
Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages from a tunnel in southern Gaza where they were killed not long before Israeli troops reached them, the military said on Sunday. The Israeli military announced the recovery of the bodies from underground in the southern city of Rafah. The bodies of Carmel Gat, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Alexander Lobanov,
Griffin Dunne’s memoir bobbed around the bestseller list after it was published in June, and though it’s since slipped off, my guess is the book will prove to have staying power. Like the life of the family he portrays with such affection and humor, The Friday Afternoon Club is divided into two parts. The first
I have been lunching monthly with Joseph Epstein for almost 40 years, so I was particularly delighted to encounter, in this collection of his essays from 1978 to 2023, a description of our first meal together. The conversation, Joe recalled, turned to the cultural “theory” then fashionable in university English departments. “‘Of course I loathe
“History is bunk,” according to Henry Ford. But there is an irony to that quotation—the motor industries patriarch and presidential candidate did not say it. No, when asked about his views on foreign affairs in 1916 the isolationist plutocrat grumbled: What do we care about what they did 500 or 1,000 years ago? I don’t
CNN’s Dana Bash sat down with Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz on Thursday, in the first interview Harris has done since she began her run for the presidency over a month ago. Bash questioned Harris on her emotions when Biden called to inform her he was no longer running for