Few Americans under age 65 will clearly recall the name Hubert Humphrey, who died in 1978 at age 66 after a landmark career as a U.S. senator, four tortured years as Lyndon B. Johnson’s vice president, and a 1968 presidential loss to Richard Nixon. Both Samuel Freedman and James Traub are long-distinguished journalists and authors
David Yamane is, by his own description, a “‘card-carrying liberal’ Asian American sociology professor from the San Francisco Bay Area who, for the first forty-two years of my life, never saw, touched, or fired a real gun.” The first time he saw a deer stand, he remarked to his companion that it seemed like a
Trump and Biden battle it out on foreign policy (Getty Images) The upcoming presidential debate will provide a much-needed jolt in a race largely devoid of primary challenges. So far, the campaign coverage has mostly focused on Joe Biden’s age and Donald Trump’s legal troubles. As much attention as these issues draw in the United
We wanted to ask Columbia College dean Josef Sorett questions. He summoned the police—after calling to defund the NYPD in 2020. MANHATTAN—Columbia College dean Josef Sorett called the police on Friday in response to a knock on his door from a Washington Free Beacon reporter. The call came after the Free Beacon visited Sorett’s Morningside
Inspector general report reveals ‘Washington hasn’t learned any lessons from COVID,’ top GOP Senator says A Wuhan, China, lab technician in Feb. 2020 ( Getty Images) How much taxpayer money has the Pentagon sent to Chinese institutions to research deadly viruses such as the one that causes COVID-19? The answer to that is a mystery—even
Al Otro Lado, a ‘bi-national’ nonprofit based in California and Tijuana, has received millions of dollars in government grants (John Moore/Getty Images) An immigrants’ rights group that received $480,000 from the Biden administration last year is suing the administration over its asylum-processing app, which it says violates anti-discrimination laws. Al Otro Lado, which has received
Anti-Israel “Squad” member Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D., N.Y.) said Jews in his district intentionally live in “segregated” communities, a state of affairs that must change because “we need to live together,” according to a Politico report on Friday. “In New York City we all live together,” Bowman said in April, Politico reported. “[But] Westchester is