Biden Admin Pays Anti-Israel Professor Thousands To Investigate How ‘Viral Memes’ Spread ‘Anti-Muslim Racism’

The Biden administration is sending tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to an anti-Israel professor to investigate how “viral memes” can “perpetuate gendered, anti-Muslim racism,” federal spending disclosures show. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded San Diego State University professor Amira Jarmakani $60,000 to research and write a project titled, “Weapons of Mass Dissemination:

Anti-Israel Protesters Shut Down Access to Chicago’s O’Hare Airport

Dozens of anti-Israel protesters in Chicago on Monday morning shut down road access to the O’Hare International Airport for nearly an hour by blocking traffic on Interstate 190.  The protesters, who displayed “Free Palestine” and “Stop Genocide” signs, stood and later sat side by side on lanes leading to the Chicago airport, causing a traffic

Ex-TikTok Employee Says He Was Ordered To Send US Data to China

A former senior employee at TikTok said he was ordered to send American user data to Beijing-based parent company ByteDance, contradicting TikTok’s public claims of operating independently from China, according to a Fortune report published Monday.  Evan Turner, a senior data scientist for TikTok from April to September in 2022, told Fortune that every two

Trump Goes to Trial in Hush Money Case as Legal Experts Voice Skepticism Over the Merits

‘The weaknesses in this case are clear,’ says Touro Law Center professor Richard Klein (Getty Images) Former president Donald Trump is scheduled to appear at a Manhattan courthouse on Monday as the trial over payments sent from the Trump Organization to porn star Stormy Daniels gets underway. The case will center on Trump’s culpability for

Biden’s Stutter Is Core to His Identity. His Account of the Moment He Overcame It Doesn’t Add Up.

All politicians have origin stories, and many, including President Joe Biden, have several anecdotes they have relayed time and again to tell voters who they are, how they learned the lessons that shaped their beliefs and worldview, and why they got into politics. Biden’s include the tragic death of his first wife and young daughter

‘White Silence is Complicity’: NPR’s New CEO Sounded More Like an Activist Than a Journalist in 2020 Tweets

NPR’s new CEO, Katherine Maher, shrugged off widespread looting and property damage during the 2020 riots, saying it was “hard to be mad” about the destruction. “I mean, sure, looting is counterproductive. But it’s hard to be mad about protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression founded on treating people’s ancestors

Lucky Joe

I have known Joseph Epstein for almost 40 years, but until I read his autobiography, I was unaware that he is not only one of the great essayists in English literature but also an amateur juggler. That makes sense, because no one juggles words better than he: They fall in surprising ways and make you