On a September morning outside a synagogue on the Upper West Side, the familiar scene of families gathering for Rosh Hashanah looks much as it always has — children in pressed clothes, elders embracing, the low murmur of anticipation before…
The heat outside the American Airlines Center in Dallas topped one hundred degrees, but the faithful came anyway — streaming through the doors in oversized MAGA hats, Trump sneakers that retail for four hundred dollars, and baseball jerseys bearing the…
A Historic Shift in German Politics The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has delivered what many analysts are calling a seismic blow to the country’s postwar democratic consensus. After the far-right party dominated Sunday’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt — trouncing mainstream…
Canada’s retaliatory tariffs took effect Tuesday, and Washington’s response was immediate and punishing. President Donald Trump directed the U.S. General Services Administration to declare Canadian products ineligible for large, long-term federal government contracts — a sweeping economic sanction that marks…
The Oval Office, Monday afternoon. A reporter asks Donald Trump why Kim Jong Un hasn’t responded to his request for a conversation. Trump pauses, then turns the question back: “How do you know he hasn’t responded?” Pressed again, he confirms…
California’s high-speed rail project has become one of the most expensive and embattled infrastructure undertakings in American history — a bullet train to nowhere, critics say, that has ballooned in cost and missed deadline after deadline for more than a…
Todd Blanche sat across from Kristen Welker on NBC’s Meet the Press last Sunday and said, plainly, what many had feared: he will not promise to keep the Justice Department independent of the White House. Not hedged. Not buried in…
The Trump administration has taken its fight over a controversial White House construction project all the way to the Supreme Court, filing an emergency request on Friday to allow work to continue on a massive ballroom complex being built adjacent…
There is a quiet but consequential shift embedded in the story of American air conditioning, one that goes well beyond personal comfort or nostalgia. What was once an optional household amenity — a noisy window unit reserved for the bedroom,…
A Federal Agent, a Gas Station, and a Question of Accountability It was the day after Christmas, and a confrontation at a Brookfield gas station would soon test whether a federal immigration enforcement officer could be held to the same…