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At this critical juncture in the Mueller probe, anyone nominated to be attorney general by President Donald Trump would be bound to arouse suspicion. And William P. Barr brought to…
We are living a crisis without precedent in Venezuela. We have a government that has dismantled the state and kidnapped all institutions to manipulate them at will. They have attacked…
As if New Yorkers don’t face enough challenges — insane traffic, bumbling bureaucracies, surly servicepeople and parking spaces as rare as hairy-nosed wombats — some city residents felt forced to…
It was Friday night, Parashas Noach, three months ago. The Alrabi family car was traveling on Highway 60 in the heart of the Shomron when suddenly a large rock struck…
A criminal in North Carolina made a big mistake. Reported by Good News Network on January 5, a man chased his victim right into a karate dojo. Which was not…
Next month Iran will mark 40 years since the founding of the Islamic republic. But as the regime enters middle age, it continues to partake in many of the same…
Ten years ago, President Barack Obama traveled to Cairo to open a new dialogue with the world’s Muslims. On Thursday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Cairo to offer…
Media outlets rarely dwell on positive trends, but it’s been hard to miss the good news at the gasoline pump. As 2018 ended, gas prices fell to their lowest in…
Trade talks between China and the United States concluded this week with every indication that a deal can be had. Success is still far from a foregone conclusion, and the…
It’s unclear how many people are living in some sort of detention in Xinjiang, the restive region in China’s far west. Last month, a State Department official testified before a…
James D. Watson, the 90-year-old Nobel laureate co-discoverer of DNA’s structure, is recovering from a car accident and, at least in person, currently out of the public eye. But he…
In his book Tears and Laughter in an Israeli Courtroom, Judge Schneur Zalman Cheshin describes the chaotic situation in Israel in the years prior to independence. The British constitution was…
Certain things seem to have an uncanny way of getting people’s heads to turn. Picture the scene. The chazzan just finished chazaras ha’shatz, and, instead of continuing with Tachanun, he…
There should be a doomsday clock ticking away in Venezuela’s presidential palace. On Jan. 10, President Nicolás Maduro will be inaugurated for a second term following rigged elections last May.…
It’s both necessary and healthy for the 116th Congress to have a full debate on defense funding. Unfortunately, it’s a near certainty that some members of Congress will muddle that…
The Trump presidency made a deep descent in December. The departures of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, the appointment of senior persons of…
The General Assembly of the American Jewish Federation took place this past October in Tel Aviv. The theme of the conference was advertised as “Let’s Talk.” Ostensibly, the goal was…
When my family lived in Providence, Rhode Island, back in the 1980s and early ’90s, I heard rumors that some of the city’s residents of Cape Verdean ancestry had a…
It is Iyar 5739/1979. An elderly moshavnik, a Holocaust survivor, entered the mourners’ home on Moshav Kommemiyus. He had an interesting story to tell, and a clear pledge from the…
One of my early jobs in the National Park Service was flying over the Mississippi River counting birds. I was required to take a “water ditching” class to learn how…