After President Joe Biden stepped aside on Sunday and Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee, one of the first people she called was her longtime pastor, Amos Brown. “She said to me, ‘Pastor, I called because I want you to pray for me … this country … and the race I am
US officials scrambled to ‘urge restraint from Israel’ following strike from Iran-backed terror group that killed children Mourners gather at a funeral held for victims of Hezbollah’s rocket attack on civilians in northern Israel. (Amir Levy/Getty Images) The Biden-Harris administration has long worked to keep Israel from confronting Hezbollah. That policy backfired Saturday when the
When I entered Cornell University in 1964, I could not have imagined that given the thousands of future doctors, lawyers, scholars, engineers, architects, and executives in my class, the person destined to have possibly the greatest influence on America’s future would not be one of them. Instead, that role may have been achieved by a
When one thinks of a Cold War-era metropolis, dreary London, drab D.C., or snowy Moscow probably come to mind. By contrast, sunny Miami is more likely to conjure images of beaches and piña coladas, and, if you’re from a certain era, the actor Don Johnson in a pastel shirt and a white suit with shoulder
The New York Yankees haven’t won a World Series since 2009. Granted, 15 years isn’t a long drought compared with many other teams. The Cleveland Guardians (formerly Indians before choosing one of the worst possible names in 2021) won their last title in 1948. It could always be worse. But these are the New York
Will Kamala and Israel’s neighbors thwart Netanyahu’s postwar plans? Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images) Shortly after the 2003 invasion of Iraq began, the commander of the 101st Airborne Division, David Petraeus, asked, “Tell me how this ends.” Nine months have now passed since Hamas began its war with Israel,
As law grad in 1989, Harris turned in ‘half-assed performance’ matched only by her failed primary campaign decades later (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images) President Joe Biden was a notoriously bad law student. He failed a torts class after he was caught plagiarizing a paper, and graduated near the bottom of his class—76th of 85—at Syracuse University