Octogenarian president plagued by dismal polls and disgruntled allies following disastrous debate performance (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) For a short time on Friday, the Biden campaign appeared ready to turn the page from its 81-year-old leader’s horrific debate performance against former president Donald Trump. A speech from Joe Biden in North Carolina prompted positive reviews in
Morris Bishop, the man who arranged for Vladimir Nabokov’s job at Cornell, and eventually became his best friend, begins his biography of Blaise Pascal by writing, “Blaise Pascal was, simply, one of the greatest men that have ever lived.” The abbé Jean Steinman, in his 1954 study of Pascal, claimed that “outside the Bible there
What is the essence of a diplomat’s charm? Perfect manners infused with personal warmth; self-confidence leavened by self-deprecation; a fund of anecdote that never degenerates into gossip; an ability to drop names, not obnoxiously but just enough to make the listener feel they’re getting the inside track; a little more erudition than you expect; a
There is perhaps no issue on Capitol Hill that brokers less agreement than policies to address climate change. On the left, doom-forecasters and activists claim the planet will be irreparably broken without major action, requiring the government to change everything from the cars we drive to the number of indigenous women employed to build the
Believe it or not, some of us were not actually surprised by President Joe Biden’s catastrophe of a debate performance. What the evening exposed was not Biden’s infirmity, though it did that too, but the years-long effort on the part of various White House communications aides, Democratic lawmakers, and mainstream media organs to gaslight the
The U.S.-built military pier in the Gaza Strip has been removed due to weather concerns and it is unclear whether it will be reinstalled, several anonymous U.S. officials told the Associated Press on Friday. President Joe Biden’s $230 million pier has done little to usher aid to Gazan civilians since its original installment in early
‘Israel has a horrific track record of committing war crimes with impunity,’ the nonprofit wrote on Oct. 7 Amnesty International is “urgently hiring” paid staffers for a “canvassing team” working to “demand a ceasefire in Gaza now,” according to a new job posting. The job listing offers recruits up to $30 per hour—plus health, vision,