Judges will rule on Thursday in the insurrection trial of former President Yoon Suk Yeol. He could get the death penalty for his short-lived imposition of martial law in 2024.
MAGA luminaries are more clear-eyed than the progressive congresswoman on Ukraine and Israel. The post On Foreign Policy, AOC Is Just More of the Same appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs On Foreign Policy, AOC Is Just More of the Same MAGA luminaries are more clear-eyed than the progressive congresswoman on Ukraine and Israel. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went to the Munich Security Conference to introduce herself to the world as a foreign policy thinker. She returned having demonstrated something else entirely: that the Democratic Party’s progressive star has absorbed the establishment’s worst ideas while shedding only its least popular rhetoric. To be fair to AOC, some credit is due. On Gaza, she said something obvious: Unconditional American aid to Israel enabled massive civilian…Open
The late preacher-cum-politician hailed from stranger times than our own. The post Jesse Jackson, Complicated Man appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Jesse Jackson, Complicated Man The late preacher-cum-politician hailed from stranger times than our own. The veteran conservative journalist Tom Bethell coined the phrase “strange new respect ” to describe liberal media adulation of a formerly conservative—or in today’s parlance, right-coded—figure who shifts leftward. What then describes the somewhat more than grudging MAGA admiration for Jesse Jackson, the civil rights activist and two-time Democratic presidential candidate who died Tuesday? President Donald Trump had a long history with Jackson before entering politics and becoming a…Open
How long will it take for liberal elites to get the message about immigration? The post Without Victory, There Is No Survival appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Without Victory, There Is No Survival How long will it take for liberal elites to get the message about immigration? How many times do Americans have to vote for Donald Trump to make the point that they want illegal immigrants deported? They voted for him in 2016, despite sheer hysteria from Democrats, the entire media, and nearly all elected Republicans. They voted for him again in 2024 by an even larger margin, with some misgivings, because he promised a mass deportation force. Do we have to make Stephen Miller president so you finally get the point? Is this Groundhog Day? Why do we always have to start at…Open
Narendra Modi, the prime minister, convened foreign leaders, the richest Silicon Valley companies and thousands of Indian entrepreneurs for a week of deal making.
A lieutenant colonel is on trial after being accused of skimming payments for battlefield injuries. He denies the specifics of Russia’s accusation but acknowledges engaging in a payouts scheme.
Among elite athletes exists an even more exclusive club: people who compete at both the Summer and Winter Games. Many are sprinters who turn to bobsled.
A Coca-Cola distributor and bottler is being sued for alleged sexual discrimination over a corporate networking event that excluded men, announced the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which filed the lawsuit, Wednesday. Why it matters: This is the first lawsuit related to workplace diversity that the federal agency in charge of enforcing anti-discrimination laws at work has filed during President Trump's second term. - Trump has made dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion policies a priority for his administration. - He signed an executive order soon after taking office again last year that targeted DEI and revoked a decades-old EO that was designed to give equal opportunity to people of color and women in the…