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Just when it looked like the protests in Hong Kong were getting out of hand, when vandalism and violence seemed sure to bring on a Beijing-ordered crackdown a la Tiananmen…
Some things don’t change very much, even with time. Almost three decades since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, its then-mainstay, Russia, is engaged in the same sort of information…
As you may be aware, the 2020 presidential election is coming. But there are quite a number of election officials around the country who seem not to have noticed. A…
In Israel on Tishah B’Av, restaurants and places of entertainment are mostly closed. But at least some government offices were open for business. The courts, for instance. The Nazareth District…
Garrett Kelsey’s release from Manhattan Federal Court last week is deeply disturbing. The 31-year-old Iowa man posted a $50,000 bond and is currently free to return to his home state…
Anyone who thinks politically correct speech was long ago laughed out of existence by conservatives and other heretics of incorrectness has obviously never been to Colorado State University. CSU made…
In former times, people would have to wait up all night to find out who won a close election. Even the candidates themselves would sometimes go to sleep in the…
The senseless massacre of 20 people and wounding of 26 others at Walmart in El-Paso, Texas, followed by the murder of nine people and the wounding of dozens of others…
“States have a legal and moral duty to do everything in their power to ensure leaders seeking the highest offices meet minimal standards, and to restore public confidence,” said California…
Like many other congressional districts that have been carefully chiseled out to try to ensure a specific electoral result, New York’s 10th District consists of a curious mix of neighborhoods.…
With all the attention focused on the second round of Democratic presidential debates this week, it is understandable that one might lose sight of other, less exciting news. But here’s…
Last week, at least four incidents of hoodlums throwing water at police officers came to light. Video of one incident, posted on social media last Monday, showed two police officers…
The demolition by Israel of 10 apartment buildings — mostly under construction — along with the evacuation of 17 residents in the Palestinian village of Sur Baher near Yerushalayim, was…
When the House of Representatives passed the Raise the Wage Act of 2019, which would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, presidential candidate from Vermont, Senator Bernie…
Last week saw the release of a Pew Research Center report about global restrictions on religion that yielded headlines like “Israel Has Almost as Many Religious Restrictions as Iran,” and…
As the world marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, it’s inevitable that among the remembrances will be the first things that men said on the moon.…
The judgment of the Federal Trade Commission fining Facebook $5 billion for privacy violations affecting an estimated 87 million users has been widely criticized as inadequate. Rightly so. If one…
The subject of reparations to descendants of American slaves was back in the news last week, when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, responded to a question at a press conference…
The Chassidim sitting at the table were listening intently to their Rebbe as he related divrei Torah at the tisch in honor of Rosh Chodesh. Off to the side sat…
It is a fact of American politics that whoever is the frontrunner in a campaign can expect relentless attacks on him by rival candidates and the media, and the attacks…