I visited the University of California, Davis around the end of May at the request of concerned Jewish faculty members on the campus, which is 15 miles west of Sacramento. I wasn’t there to provoke or grandstand. I came because Jewish students and staff on that campus feel unsafe, unprotected, and unheard. And what I
Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani’s plan to shift responsibility for hate crimes from the New York Police Department to his proposed “Department of Community Safety” (DCS) has both advocates and victims sounding the alarm. Mamdani discussed the idea during a Wednesday press conference in which he addressed last week’s shooting
AOC’s partner, Riley Roberts, is a ‘spouse’ to secure free gifts, but not when it comes to financial transparency AOC (Mario Tama/Getty Images) The House Ethics Committee rebuked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) for simultaneously claiming her longtime partner, Riley Roberts, is and isn’t her “spouse.” The committee’s rebuke stemmed from a lengthy explanation Ocasio-Cortez’s
On my first day in the television comedy business, I learned two important lessons. The first was that there really was a rule about words with the hard “k” sound. In Neil Simon’s brilliant play about two aging comedy stars, The Sunshine Boys, they both insist that “k” words are funny. And it turned out
The year 1950 was perilous for what then, unabashedly, called itself the Free World. In January Britain’s Labour government extended diplomatic recognition to Mao Zedong’s Communist China. The same month a New York jury convicted State Department luminary Alger Hiss of perjury, the statute of limitations for espionage having expired. Days later Wisconsin senator Joseph
Left-wing nonprofit reportedly considering closing up shop amid Elon Musk lawsuit Marc Elias (Wikimedia Commons) When Elon Musk sued Media Matters in 2023, the law firm of Democratic super-lawyer Marc Elias swooped in to represent the liberal media group. It made little headway against the lawsuit before submitting millions of dollars in legal bills, prompting
New York firebrand accepted ‘impermissible gifts,’ House Ethics Committee rules Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) violated House Ethics rules after she attended the 2021 Met Gala in her infamous “Tax the Rich” dress, the House Ethics Committee ruled Friday, ordering her to repay a fashion designer nearly $3,000 for