Boston University fellow Dalia Mogahed will ‘help bring our community together,’ MIT says Dalia Mogahed (Norbert Schiller for World Economic Forum/Wikimedia Commons) In an attempt to ease campus “tension” following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is slated to bring a series of guest speakers to campus—including one who endorsed
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain never directed a great army (like William Sherman), nor did he steer a warship into battle (like David Farragut), nor was he elected president on the strength of his record in the Civil War (like Ulysses Grant). Nevertheless, Chamberlain has become one of the most easily identifiable icons among the legions of
REVIEW: ‘The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943’ by James Holland U.S. troops in Italy (Defense Department via Wikimedia Commons) December 7, 1941, and June 6, 1944, are iconic dates in the history of World War II, or at least when history was taught in school. There is no date commemorating the war in
On January 20, Ronnie O’Sullivan played a perfect match of snooker. It was in the semifinals of the World Grand Prix tournament, held in Leicester—a middling English city with a minor arena. Still, in front of the capacity 3,000 spectators and over half-a-million television watchers, O’Sullivan played about as well as he has ever played
This week President Joe Biden was stuck in 2020. He referred to Donald Trump as a “sitting president” and touted his foreign policy achievements during “the previous administration.” In other words, it was a pretty good week for the 81-year-old, who typically describes himself as a member of the U.S. Senate, where he served from
Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis defended her decision to fire an employee who blew the whistle on attempted abuse of taxpayer funds in her office, saying in a statement Friday she terminated the whistleblower for poor work performance. But Willis sang a different tune about the whistleblower, former director of juvenile diversion Amanda Timpson,
A senior staffer at the BBC is under fire following reports that she posted a litany of anti-Semitic content on social media in recent months. Dawn Queva, a senior scheduling coordinator and playout planner at BBC Three, called Jewish people “Nazi apartheid parasites,” “a bunch of thieving squatters,” and other anti-Semitic slurs in posts exposed