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

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?

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

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

“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

Virginia Secretary of Education Warns Universities To Prepare For Anti-Israel Protests Amid Reports Campus Disruptions ‘Will Be Even More Chaotic’

Police arrested 27 at an illegal University of Virginia encampment (Aaron Josephson; via Wikimedia Commons) The Virginia secretary of education told the state’s universities they must ensure student safety in the fall amid reports that upcoming anti-Israel protests on campus “will be even more chaotic.” Secretary Aimee R. Guidera urged Virginia public universities on Thursday