Tim Walz Reflects on Election Loss: ‘I Can Be a Train Wreck’

Former Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz in an interview reflected on why he and running mate Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election, saying the campaign wasn’t “bold” enough and calling himself a “train wreck.” In a New York magazine interview published Monday, Walz said that “I won’t critique the campaign” but that “I don’t

Transportation Department Hires Outside Law Firm to Investigate Air Traffic Controller DEI Practices

Secretary Duffy is also cooperating with plaintiffs in lawsuit claiming FAA denied employment to qualified air traffic controller applicants (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The Department of Transportation is ramping up its investigation into internal practices put in place years ago that allegedly prioritized DEI over merit when hiring air traffic controllers, the Washington Free Beacon has

Raphael Warnock Lives Large On His Church’s Dime. Plus, NBC Doubles Down on DEI.

The Lord giveth: In 2023, Sen. Raphael Warnock quietly moved into a lavish Atlanta home brimming with luxury accommodations including a 100-bottle wine fridge and a “stunning” European bathroom with a remote-control privacy curtain. The Georgia Democrat sold his previous Atlanta home shortly after he moved in. But he didn’t need the proceeds from that

Raphael Warnock Lives Free in $1 Million Luxury Home—Purchased by His Church

The lavish Atlanta home where Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) resides brims with luxury details: Marketed as a “one of one custom home that effortlessly merges history & luxury,” the five-bedroom home, built in 2022, went on the market for over a million dollars later that year and sold quickly—not to Warnock, but to Ebenezer

MSNBC, NBC Double Down on DEI and Quotas as Trump Administration Pledges To Stamp Out ‘Discriminatory’ Behavior in the Media Business

When FCC chairman Brendan Carr announced last week that the Trump administration will block the business deals of media conglomerates that engage in discriminatory DEI practices, some employees at the liberal network MSNBC took notice. “MSNBC could be in the administration’s crosshairs as well. The network is in the process of being spun off from

GOP Lawmakers Eye Expansion of ICC Sanctions as Court’s Top Officials Turn to Europe for Relief

‘The U.S. should treat anyone who helps the ICC or its officials evade those sanctions accordingly,’ says Ted Cruz L: Sen. Tom Cotton R: International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan (Getty Images) The Trump administration and its Republican allies in Congress say they will fully enforce sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and are

Weekend Beacon 3/30/25

As peace remains elusive in Ukraine, it’s worth reflecting on a time when the region was similarly witness to carnage—but with the Russians fighting the British, French, Turks, and… Sardinians? Gary Saul Morson returns to the Weekend Beacon with a review of Gregory Carleton’s Crimean Quagmire: Tolstoy, Russell and the Birth of Modern Warfare. “In