A day after lift-off, ABC News' Gio Benitez spoke with astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen from their Orion spacecraft.
Worldly power fears the man on the donkey. The post The Real Meaning of the Holy Sepulcher Contretemps appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs The Real Meaning of the Holy Sepulcher Contretemps Worldly power fears the man on the donkey. On Palm Sunday, Israeli police stopped Pierbattista Cardinal Pizzaballa , the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, and Francesco Ielpo, the Custos of the Holy Land, on their way to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. The church called the decision “manifestly unreasonable and grossly disproportionate,” noting that for the first time in centuries, its senior leaders were prevented from celebrating Palm Sunday at Christianity’s holiest shrine. Only after global outrage did Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reverse the restriction.…Open
Matthew Goodwin’s latest is a stumble for the British right. The post The AI Book Scandal Roiling Reform UK appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage The AI Book Scandal Roiling Reform UK Matthew Goodwin’s latest is a stumble for the British right. UK Special Coverage Is the British right starting to get sloppy? The row over the latest book by Matthew Goodwin, a former academic–turned—GB News commentator and Reform UK parliamentary candidate, seems to suggest that it is. Goodwin emerged on Britain’s political scene as a well-respected academic. His books in the 2010s, Revolt on the Right and National Populism, were serious attempts to grapple with the emerging populist revolt, with the rise of UKIP and the Brexit vote in the UK, as well as Trump…Open
We spend all that money and are still unable to defend our Persian Gulf bases. The post The Trillion-Dollar Illusion appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs The Trillion-Dollar Illusion We spend all that money and are still unable to defend our Persian Gulf bases. The latest American-Israeli aggression against Iran has exposed the United States’ inability to defend our big bases in the Gulf Countries and smaller bases in Iraq. For decades, these countries have had to endure the ire of their populations who are unhappy with the presence of U.S. forces in their lands. Their citizens are painfully aware of the U.S. and Israeli mass destruction and murder of their Muslim brothers. This may become a source of instability as war escalates. Our leaders bribed and coerced the…Open
The Cuban government said the releases were a humanitarian gesture during Holy Week. It was not clear if they were related to ongoing negotiations between Cuba and the United States.
Shanghai’s many layers of architecture, culture and politics have made it a difficult fit for the Communist Party’s preferred narrative of Chinese victimhood and Western sins.
A Times investigation found that abductions of women and girls from Syria’s Alawite minority were more common, and more brutal, than the government has acknowledged.
ICE inspectors in February found 49 violations to detention standards at Camp East Montana, including failure from staff to"accurately document required checks to prevent significant self-harm and suicide."
ICE inspectors in February found 49 violations to detention standards at Camp East Montana, including failure from staff to"accurately document required checks to prevent significant self-harm and suicide."Open
'should not be a part of anything going forward'
Pam Bondi had a feeling her days as attorney general were numbered. But she didn’t expect President Trump to drop the curtain quite so soon.