Former president Donald Trump promised to crush pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses, telling a roomful of donors — a group that he joked included “98 percent of my Jewish friends” — that he would expel student demonstrators from the United States, according to participants in the roundtable event with him in New York. This post appeared first on The Washington ...
Imagine you are planning to run a few miles on a treadmill as part of your regular workout. You can do this with the treadmill in a level position, or you can set it at an incline. It isn’t hard to determine which would make for an easier session at the gym. This post appeared first on The Washington Post ...
Nick Sarwark was worried. Ahead of the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, the then-chair of the Libertarian Party was increasingly concerned that a faction of his party supported white supremacy. Sarwark fired off a public letter saying racism didn’t belong in the party and asking others to join in his condemnation of fascism and of the ...
When President Barack Obama hosted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office in 2014, the Israeli leader lectured him about Gaza’s future, a Palestinian state and an Iranian nuclear deal in a tone that Obama found condescending and dismissive. After the meeting, an aide asked how it went. Netanyahu “peed on my leg,” Obama replied, according to two people ...
Despite the intense focus the past couple of months on pro-Palestinian protests, many of which were championed by the far-left wing of the Democratic Party, the self-proclaimed progressive bloc has struggled to churn out victories at the ballot box. Oregon’s Democratic primary served up the latest example of this uphill fight, as the more traditional liberal wing won two contested ...
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. told a Washington Post reporter in January 2021 that an upside-down American flag recently flown on their flagpole was “an international signal of distress” and indicated that it had been raised in response to a neighborhood dispute. Martha-Ann Alito made the comments when the reporter went to the couple’s Fairfax ...
Chase Oliver, a candidate for the Georgia Senate election in 2022, won the presidential nomination late Sunday night for the Libertarian Party, the third-largest political party. The nomination came after seven rounds of voting over a long, contentious day as factions of the party feuded over the nomination and party leadership positions. After winning, Oliver promised to unify the party ...
In an immediate sense, it doesn’t matter at all whether Americans think Donald Trump is guilty of the charges filed against him in New York. That legal determination will be made by the 12 New Yorkers tapped to show up everyday and hear the attorneys’ arguments and consider the evidence. This post appeared first on The Washington Post ...
There’s a large region of the right-wing media ecosystem that is littered with those always-disappointing carbon-snake fireworks. Touch one of them with a spark and it springs to life, pushing out an unbroken chain of detritus. Eventually it dies out, leaving a mess, but there are other sparks and other snakes still to be lit. This post appeared first on ...
Special counsel Jack Smith filed court papers Friday asking a judge to order Donald Trump not to make any further incendiary claims suggesting that FBI agents were “complicit in a plot to assassinate him.” In the filing to U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon, Smith argues Trump’s statements earlier this week exposed FBI agents involved in the case “to the ...