President Joe Biden said he regretted calling Laken Riley’s alleged murderer an “illegal” during his State of the Union address in an interview that aired Saturday. “I shouldn’t have used ‘illegal.’ It’s ‘undocumented,’” Biden told MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart. “And look, when I spoke about the difference between Trump and me, one of the things I
One grant went to a college in Massachusetts to study how floodplains respond to climate change (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Since January 2023, President Joe Biden’s National Science Foundation (NSF) has spent millions of dollars on grants funded by the American Rescue Plan, Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID stimulus package. The grants have nothing to do with
It was October 10, three days after Hamas had murdered 1,200 Israelis and abducted hundreds more, and Jewish students at Middlebury College were trying to organize a vigil for the victims. They reached out to Middlebury’s dean of students, Derek Doucet, with a draft poster promoting the event, which they invited administrators at the elite
Increasingly our best works of American history are being authored by writers who’ve never attended a faculty meeting. Think James Rosen on Antonin Scalia, Jonathan Eig on Martin Luther King Jr., or Joshua Prager on Norma McCorvey and Roe v. Wade. Add to that list Jared Cohen, president of global affairs at Goldman Sachs, who
REVIEW: ‘The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy After Trump’ by Alexander Ward Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) When the 2020 Democratic primary was underway, an activist group founded by current national security adviser Jake Sullivan convened some of the party’s top foreign policy
Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman—the producers of HBO’s Band of Brothers and its partner The Pacific—have joined forces with Apple TV+ to bring audiences Masters of the Air, a miniseries that follows the heroic actions of the 100th Bomb Group, a B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber unit in the Eighth Air Force, during
President Joe Biden managed to stay standing through the entirety of his State of the Union address, but that doesn’t mean it went well. The address was chock-full of classic Biden babble, with the 81 year old calling for “more community violencveratvenion,” stressing the importance of “our ability to have schchnefsuela,” and pledging to crack