John McGuire doesn’t look like the stereotypical Navy SEAL. At five-foot-eight, a Navy recruiter told him he was too small to serve in the special operations force. McGuire, a Richmond, Va., native who was abandoned as a child and spent years in the foster care system, volunteered for SEAL training anyway and went on to
Henry Kissinger spent his last day as secretary of state looking into Joe and Frank Biden’s taxpayer-funded Africa junket (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Today, Joe Biden’s 1976 Africa junket is best remembered as the scene for the president’s discredited claim that he was arrested “on the streets of Soweto” in apartheid South Africa when trying to
Nearly two weeks ago, Columbia University president Minouche Shafik assured members of Congress that an anti-Semitic professor had been terminated. That professor, Mohamed Abdou, was “grading his students’ papers” before the end of the semester and would “never teach at Columbia again,” Shafik said. Instead, Abdou—a self-described “Muslim anarchist” who teaches a class on “Decolonial-Queerness
Biden created the Climate Corps via executive action last year after urging from Ocasio-Cortez (Getty Images) President Joe Biden’s taxpayer-funded American Climate Corps is looking to hire dozens of “Garden Educators” who will work on “activating elementary school gardens as a learning laboratory for environmental education.” Job postings for the $20-per hour-position list “a commitment
It’s a rare book that opens with the writer admitting he’s an asshole, and different readers will, of course, respond differently to this unique authorial strategy. Do we hurl the book across the room? Toss it on the Weber and set it on fire? Drown it in the bath tub? Or do we, Looney Tunes-like,
Edward VIII—the only English monarch, to date, to have voluntarily abdicated, taking on the title of Duke of Windsor thereafter—has not had the best reputation when it comes to his historical standing. He is widely regarded as a dilettante playboy, a Nazi sympathizer, and grotesquely irresponsible and selfish in both his life and reign. Having
Harvard protesters chanted ‘Shame!’ when university staff removed the flags Anti-Israel protesters at Harvard University raised Palestinian flags on campus Saturday in a spot typically reserved for the American flag. Harvard protesters hoisted three Palestinian flags over the Harvard Yard encampment, where students have been sleeping in tents since Wednesday. The flags were raised on