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The Biden-Harris administration abandoned $57.6 million in American funds, a “significant amount of classified information,” and advanced biometric data that enabled the Taliban to hunt down nearly 500 former Afghan officials during its bungled 2021 withdrawal, according to the findings of a three-year long congressional investigation. The report, published Monday by the House Foreign Affairs

Sean McMeekin’s new book about the trajectory of the most consequential political movement of the 20th century, To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism, is an ambitious effort to chronicle an ideology birthed in the early 1900s by a heretofore obscure exile that managed to seize power in Russia, inspire

Prolific author, historian, and former senior government official Tevi Troy is out with a new book about politics. This one takes a close look at 18 iconic CEOs—men like Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Bill Gates, Lee Iacocca, and Elon Musk—and their interactions with multiple presidents. Troy (a friend) is the author of

In Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words, Anne Curzan tackles a pile of hard questions about grammar and usage. Her tone, however, is upbeat. A linguist, a language historian, and a writing professor, Curzan is the anti-vigilante of usage critics. For years, she has been writing and talking

Singapore’s success is the key to its security—and ours Joe Biden and then-Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore in 2022 (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) SINGAPORE—City states have largely disappeared from world politics. Over the centuries, technological and economic advances made great powers rich and strong enough to impose their will far away from their home

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign said that ABC’s decision to keep the microphones muted during the upcoming presidential debate “handcuffed” its initial strategy, Politico reported Friday. Harris’s plan, before ABC finalized the rules of the event this week, was to interrupt her opponent, former president Donald Trump, by fact-checking and directly questioning him while he was