The New York Times placed Gov. Gavin Newsom (D., Calif.) on its coveted Best Sellers list even as it acknowledged that Newsom used campaign-funded “bulk sales” to sell tens of thousands of copies of his memoir, Young Man in a Hurry. The Times has cited such sales to…
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On the Couch With Kamala Harris
CHARLOTTE—Kamala Harris is technically still on tour promoting 107 Days, her critically panned campaign memoir that came out almost seven months ago. Copies of the book adorn the stage at Ovens Auditorium, but no one wants to hear her rehash petty grievances from a lost election in what…
George Washington University Hires Federal Judge Overseeing Antisemitism Lawsuit Against It To Teach ‘Ethics and Discretionary Judgment’
George Washington University hired the federal judge who is presiding over a lawsuit accusing the school of “pervasive and severe antisemitic harassment” to teach a GW Law course on “ethics and discretionary judgment,” social media posts and course materials reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show. That judge,…
Hegseth Takes Aim at Iranian Regime ‘Pirates and Terrorists’ and ‘Legacy Trump-Hating Press’ in News Conference
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth taunted the Iranian regime as a group of “pirates and terrorists” during a Thursday morning press briefing and laid into the “legacy Trump-hating press.” “We have a long track record of dealing with pirates and terrorists,” Hegseth said, warning the Islamic…
Zohran Mamdani’s Wife Apologizes for ‘Harmful’ Racial Slurs She Posted on Social Media—but Not for Glorifying Terrorists
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D.) wife, First Lady Rama Duwaji, offered a belated apology for using slurs for black and gay people on an old social media account. She did not apologize for several posts sent in her early 20s glorifying Palestinian terrorists. “When a tabloid…
Duke Suspends Students for Justice in Palestine Chapter Over Illustration Depicting ‘Zionism’ as Pig Holding Star of David
Duke University suspended and froze funding for its campus Students for Justice in Palestine chapter after the anti-Israel organization shared an illustration flagged for “antisemitic imagery,” the Duke Chronicle reported Wednesday. The student organization advertised an event last month in an Instagram post featuring an illustration of two…
Democrats Who Called Eric Swalwell Their ‘Friend’ Now Say They’re Stunned by Accusations Against Him
It was an open secret among the political class—except, apparently, to those who knew him best. Democrats who once described their closeness with former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.) now say they are shocked by the string of sexual misconduct allegations against him—including rape—that ended his gubernatorial campaign…
New Database Empirically Proves Everything You Suspected About the New York Times
A new database of all the New York Times articles published in the past 25 years provides empirical evidence of some of the biases that many of the newspaper’s critics have long suspected. The developer of the database, Ted Alcorn, is not a media critic but a former…
American University Advertising for Jewish Students, Mirroring Efforts From Dartmouth
American University is recruiting Jewish students through an ad in a Brooklyn-based Jewish newspaper describing the school as a “place where Jewish students feel at home.” The move follows similar efforts from Dartmouth and Brown universities as other Ivies, namely Harvard and Yale, experience declines in their Jewish…
No Ships Have Broken Through US Blockade in Persian Gulf, CENTCOM Says, Threatening To Deprive Islamic Republic of Billions in Oil Revenue
Not a single ship has breached the United States’ naval blockade in the Persian Gulf since it began Monday morning, according to United States Central Command (CENTCOM), severely damaging the Iranian regime’s ability to export billions of dollars in oil and sustain itself financially. “During the first 24…