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The compulsive and self-righteous bellicosity of the Democratic leaders in Congress over the Supreme Court vacancy has opened an opportunity for President Trump to strike decisively. It is

Aqsa Intifada, a period of carnage that saw the deaths of over 1,000 Israelis and 3,000 Palestinians. The Intifada killed people and it killed hope.

To say that Martin Amis exemplifies the elevation of style over substance is like saying that Donald Trump is a bit vulgar. An author who makes his name by elevating style over substance

The great wartime British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is attributed with the expression “Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other

The biggest takeaway from the 2016 presidential election was that Main Street America was so sick of elites in Washington DC telling them how to live that they elected a politically

Joe Biden’s presidential campaign called another early morning press lid at 9:20 a.m. on Thursday, leaving strategists and reporters wondering what the hell is going on. It was the ninth time this month that Biden had no public events on schedule and …

In 1898 Émile Zola was moved to such anger by the French Army’s contemptible (anti-Semitic) treatment of one Captain Dreyfus that he published his famous open letter to the French president,

If opposition parties back it, the Brady amendment – which calls for parliamentary votes before nationwide Covid restrictions are introduced – will pass. The signatures to the amendment have just

A well-dressed young man walks down the Potsdamer Straße in Berlin, days before the end of March in 1933. He’s going to the Kammergericht, where he works as a civil servant in the legal system.

A Life is expert, engrossing, entertaining and sympathetic to its subject. At its heart is a writer steely in his determination to entertain, an inexhaustible mine of mots, a non-stop genius of jokes,