‘I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down,’ octogenarian says in statement President Joe Biden will not seek reelection but will carry out the remainder of his term, he announced in a statement released Sunday. Minutes later, he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as
While the Republican and Democratic parties plunge into painful realignments, China is making its own moves internationally. Taiwan has become a major flashpoint of the U.S.-China rivalry, and two books on the topic reveal not only some of the key arguments taking place in the United States about Taiwan, but also why this realignment is
In Rupert Brooke’s best-known poem, a soldier says that if he dies, there will be “some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England.” As I discovered nearly 30 years ago, such corners, dating from 1918 and 1919, can be found in a cemetery in Archangel (Archangelsk) in Russia’s far north. In her latest
Mathematicians can have a childlike sense of wonder. They chart the optimal color of bananas to ripen on schedule, rather than just purchasing the best-looking ones. Where most people see a mess to clean up, they see the partial differential equations written in the red of splattered ketchup. They set up statistical models to predict
Practice ‘loving your neighbor,’ Will Rollins says after claiming his opponent will ‘do anything to tear down our democracy’ Will Rollins (@WillRollinsCA/X) California Democrat Will Rollins recently wrote that “loving your neighbor” shouldn’t depend on politics, but the congressional candidate has called Republicans and his opponent, Rep. Ken Calvert (R., Calif.), “extremists” who want to
Reid Hoffman, a former associate of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, hosts VP donor call Reid Hoffman and Kamala Harris (Getty Images) Amid uncertainty over President Joe Biden’s status atop the Democratic presidential ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris will speak to a group of deep-pocketed donors in an impromptu conference call hosted by a major party donor
When Omer Neutra’s ‘parents speak publicly, they don’t talk about Israel’s assault on Gaza,’ a now-deleted post read Ronen, Orna Neutra (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The Washington Post is under fire for sharing and then deleting a Friday X post that shamed an Israeli-American couple for failing to speak “about the ferocity of Israel’s counterattack” on