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Eric Holder Says Columbia’s Campus Agitators Have ‘Legitimate Concerns.’ His Law Firm, Covington & Burling, Said Their Behavior ‘Would Not Be Tolerated.’

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Former attorney general Eric Holder rallied behind Columbia University’s student protesters on Thursday as the New York Police Department swooped in and tried to clear the campus green of disruptive protesters acting in violation of university policy. Holder, a Columbia College and Columbia Law School graduate, said in a tweet on Thursday that campus “unrest”

Biden Judicial Pick’s Law Firm Touts an ‘Arsenal’ of Legal Tactics to Help Clients Accused of Murder, Child Rape

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Senate Democrats hailed President Joe Biden’s pick for the  U.S. District Court of Massachusetts as a committed advocate for criminal justice. As a defense attorney, Brian E. Murphy defended rapists and violent criminals while leading a firm that touted its ability to protect the “reputation” of convicted sex offenders. Murphy & Rudolf, a criminal defense

WFB Editor in Chief Analyzes How Criminal Trial Will Play for Trump Campaign

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Washington Free Beacon editor in chief Eliana Johnson appeared on NewsNation on Sunday with Chris Stirewalt, where she discussed whether former president Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York will benefit his campaign in the court of public opinion. “If Trump takes the stand … the defense’s key witness in this is Michael Cohen,” Johnson said,

At Yale, Anti-Israel Protesters Injure Jewish Student and Tear Down American Flag From War Memorial As Administrators Stand By

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NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Pro-Palestinian protesters at Yale University this weekend occupied a World War II memorial, tore down an American flag that flew there, and sent a Jewish student to the hospital as administrators stood by and refused to break up the protest, which violated several university rules. The protest on Beinecke Plaza—a quad in the

What Would Lincoln Do?

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What if Lincoln had lived? That is a question about which historians have given conflicting answers. Allen Guelzo suspects he would have guided the sections along a path toward reconciliation, while guaranteeing voting rights and citizenship to freedmen across the South, in a manner that would have foreclosed the sectional hostilities that arose as a

Intoxicating Masculinity

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In the mid-1980s through early-1990s, no mortal exhibited electric masculinity like Randall Mario Poffo, the wrestling superstar better known by his stage name: “Macho Man” Randy Savage. Savage was a showman’s showman. A championship performer known for sounding like a “choking grizzly bear,” in the words of his biographer Jon Finkel, while cutting fight promos