WASHINGTON FREE BEACON

‘I Might Have to School Them a Little Bit’: Embattled Democratic Rep. Susan Wild Smears Conservative Constituents in Private While Publicly Embracing Moderate Views

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Susan Wild, the Democratic Pennsylvania congresswoman in one of the country’s tightest House races, has privately and repeatedly trashed working-class conservative voters in her district as bigots who “drank the Trump Kool-Aid.” But in public, the Pennsylvania Democrat has drastically moderated her positions on hot-button issues as she seeks reelection in her battleground district. Earlier

A Pentagon Official Saw Her Ties to an Iranian Influence Network Exposed—Then Visited the Biden-Harris White House 8 Times

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Ariane Tabatabai’s admin access ‘warrants our highest scrutiny,’ Stefanik says L: (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) R: Ariane Tabatabai (YouTube screenshot) The Biden-Harris White House hosted a Pentagon official at the center of an Iranian government influence operation eight times—after her ties to Tehran’s hardline regime were exposed, raising further questions about the official’s ongoing access to

How Many Laws Did You Break Today?

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When the Washington Free Beacon asked me to review Over Ruled, I was honored, intrigued, and amused. Honored because this was Justice Neil Gorsuch’s latest work that’s not printed in U.S. Reports, the official publisher of Supreme Court opinions. Intrigued because he, along with his sometime coauthor and former clerk Janie Nitze (an accomplished lawyer

White Paper Trail

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REVIEW: ‘The Thinkers: The Rise of Partisan Think Tanks and the Polarization of American Politics’ by E.J. Fagan (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) August 11, 2024 Over the past century, think tanks have become a driving force on the American political landscape. These nonprofit 501(c)(3) research bodies gather experts and political activists, shape political agendas, sketch

One Hell of a Deal

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“The devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape.” So Hamlet decided in the second act of the eponymous play, meditating upon the reappearance of his father’s tormented spirit. Yet whether or not the diabolical lies at the heart of Hamlet, it is certainly present in Christopher Marlowe’s earlier play, Doctor Faustus, in which its