Israeli warplanes struck the Iranian consulate in Damascus on Monday, and a Lebanese security source told Reuters a senior commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Mohammad Reza Zahedi, had been killed in the attack. Reuters reporters at the scene in the Mezzeh district of the Syrian capital saw smoke rising from rubble of a
The Maryland Democrat is in hot water after using an anti-black slur Rep. David Trone (X/@davidjtrone) Rep. David Trone (D., Md.) landed in hot water late last month after he used the racial slur “jigaboo” during an exchange with Republicans over tax rates on the House floor. “This Republican jigaboo that, you know, it’s a
Reading an account of Kamala Harris’s political career is like examining the stalled career of a can’t-miss baseball prospect struggling to hit major league pitching. In Charlie Spiering’s new biography of the vice president, Amateur Hour: Kamala Harris in the White House, the book portrays Harris as a hyped candidate who consistently makes egregious missteps
Between the end of the Civil War and the enactment of the Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965), the goal of nearly all advocates of racial equality in the United States could be summed up as “colorblindness.” As African-American journalist Coleman Hughes reminds us in The End of Race Politics, that aim—the
REVIEW: ‘Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture’ by Aaron M. Renn (PhotoAlto/Jerome Gorin via Grabien) When I first moved to Washington, I lived in a townhouse on Capitol Hill with 10 other Christian men. We frequently hosted guests for dinner and, one night, Aaron Renn was kind enough to join
Cotton: ‘Biden administration is trying to flout Congress’s ban on UNRWA funding’ A UNRWA office in the Gaza Strip (Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images) The Biden administration continues to diplomatically support the United Nations’ chief Palestinian aid organization and is working behind the scenes with several nations to support its work in the Gaza Strip,
Black Lives Matter is back to doing what it does best: investing in expensive real estate. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation announced Wednesday it will pour $1 million into the Black Panther building, a planned $80 million complex in Oakland, Calif., that will house 79 subsidized apartment units as well as a grocery store,