Many Hungarians, exhausted by a struggling economy and worried about a move away from the European Union, were jubilant after Prime Minister Viktor Orban conceded. Some had wondered if he would.
As the president threatens to wipe out Iran and attacks the pope, even some former allies and advisers are questioning whether he has grown increasingly unbalanced, describing him as “lunatic” and “clearly insane.”
A federal judge tossed President Trump’s defamation suit against The Wall Street Journal on Monday over a story it published detailing a letter Trump allegedly sent to disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday. Trump denies writing the letter and claims it was faked. But U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles ruled the president failed to allege “actual malice,” the high bar public figures must clear to pursue defamation claims. #trump #epsteinfiles #wallstreetjournal #law #epstein
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., just found out the hard way that his party will stop at nothing in its bid to acquire and maintain power — even if it means taking out one of their own to do it. For those catching up on this weekend’s news, Fang Fang’s former fella was hit with allegations […]
As you've probably heard, there is a chimpanzee civil war in Uganda.
Trump later said the image depicted him as a doctor.
A number of people perceived the photo as portraying Trump as Christ and a number of replies on his own post saw his supporters ask him to take the image down.
A new book offers a realist strategy for dealing with a region in rapid flux. The post The Middle East has Become the New ‘West Asia’ appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books The Middle East has Become the New ‘West Asia’ A new book offers a realist strategy for dealing with a region in rapid flux. (AFP via Getty Images) West Asia: A New American Grand Strategy in the Middle East, by Mohammad Soliman. Polity Books, 272 pages. The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy laid out its vision for a new U.S. role in the Middle East based on a pragmatic scaling back from the ideological misadventures of prior years. Instead of attempting to reshape the countries of the Middle East through violence and money, the strategy advocated an orderly withdrawal from a region that…Open
‘Lead Like Jael’ offers a third way for conservative young women. The post The Tradwife v. Girlboss War Is Over appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books The Tradwife v. Girlboss War Is Over ‘Lead Like Jael’ offers a third way for conservative young women. Credit: PickPik Lead Like Jael, by Emma Waters. Regnery Faith, 240 pages. Emma Waters begins her debut book Lead Like Jael with a familiar confession: “Five years ago, I was having an absolute meltdown over the thought of becoming a mother. I was convinced it would derail my career ambitions and leave me sad, alone, and irrelevant.” Yet, unlike the average New Yorker column, the plot twist in this book on Biblical womanhood is that Waters’s feelings about motherhood turned out to be false. Happiness…Open
George Saunders’s latest is an exercise in lefty moralizing. The post Nothing Worth Staying Up For appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books Nothing Worth Staying Up For George Saunders’s latest is an exercise in lefty moralizing. (Johnny Louis/FilmMagic) Vigil: A Novel, by George Saunders, Random House, 174 pages. G.K. Chesterton may or may not have actually said, “The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything,” but in this, the third decade of the 21st century, the words ring true. We might want to add a corollary: The first effect of not believing in sin, as traditionally defined by the major schools of religious and moral thought, is to believe in forms of “sin” that are no such thing. Thus, a not-insignificant…Open