Two U.S. Navy SEALs who went missing in the Gulf of Aden earlier this month during a raid on a boat carrying Iranian weapons have not been located following an exhaustive search and their status has been changed to deceased, military officials said on Sunday. The SEALs were reported missing after boarding the vessel in
Last summer, the leaders of Multnomah County—the liberal Oregon enclave that includes most of Portland—filed a high-profile lawsuit seeking $1.5 billion in damages from the world’s top oil and gas producers. Exxon, Shell, BP, and others, county leaders argued in their complaint, knew that their “fossil fuel products” caused “catastrophic harm” but told the public
Florida governor’s exit creates two-person primary race between Trump, Haley Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey DeSantis (Photo by Octavio Jones/Getty Images) Florida governor Ron DeSantis is dropping out of the Republican presidential race two days before the New Hampshire primary, he announced Sunday. DeSantis in a social media video said he no
Henry Agard Wallace (1888-1965) left his mark on what he memorably proclaimed the Century of the Common Man—as plant geneticist, entrepreneur, spiritualist, author, magazine editor, transformative secretary of agriculture under Franklin Roosevelt, and Roosevelt’s second vice president. To his admirers Wallace was a conviction politician who denounced segregation in front of Southern audiences and criticized
In The Identity Trap, Yascha Mounk, who teaches international affairs at Johns Hopkins, joins a number of eminent critics of the identitarian movement that has come to dominate both American academia and, increasingly, our political and social life. He differs from most such critics in two respects. First, while he is a professed “philosophical” liberal,
The annus mirabilis of 1989 was truly a marvelous year. Decades of Communist oppression ended with a chaotic series of events, leaving the members of the various politburos from Moscow to Berlin puzzled and the freed people euphoric. The Berlin Wall crumbled, the Communist border guards did not shoot, the Soviet Army did not take
President Joe Biden is not well. During an event in North Carolina this week, he called out to the crowd in search of Rep. Deborah Ross (D., N.C.), who wasn’t there even though Biden, 81, seemed to think he had just taken a photo with her. “Where’s Deborah?” the president asked. “I just had my