When American rapper Macklemore took the stage as Ed Sheeran’s opening act at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on September 4 and 5, he used the platform to make a case for Palestinian liberation before audiences estimated at roughly 80,000. He performed “Hind’s Hall”—a protest song named for Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old Palestinian girl killed...

A few weeks ago Russians with Attitude, posted a blunt prediction after Abelardo de la Espriella won Colombia’s presidency in June. “It was already bad under Gustavo Petro who didn’t do anything to stop it but at least verbally denounced the outflow of Colombian mercenaries. De la Espriella will likely actively support American-Ukrainian recruitment efforts....

Jared Kushner and Hakeem Jeffries met privately in New York City in recent weeks, and neither man wanted to discuss it afterward. The New York Times reported the encounter on August 23, citing five people with knowledge of a session held in a New York City space a mutual friend provided. The two men discussed...

In the fall of 2025, a quiet software switch inside one of the world’s most popular streaming platforms ignited a geopolitical firestorm that few anime fans saw coming. Crunchyroll, the jointly owned Sony Pictures Entertainment and Aniplex platform that delivers Japanese animation to over 100 million registered users worldwide, reportedly transitioned its subtitling workflow away...

On October 3, 1965, Lyndon Johnson sat at a table at the base of the Statue of Liberty and signed the Hart-Celler Act, formally known as the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, erasing the national origins quota system from American law. Standing near him was a 77-year-old Brooklyn Democrat watching the end of a...

Around 50,000 to 60,000 migrants poured across the frontier from Morocco into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta in late July 2026, flooding the narrow strip of land and leaving Spanish authorities visibly overwhelmed—the worst crossing event since the May 2021 crisis. The images were harrowing enough to command the attention of the entire...

While the American public remains deeply divided by electoral theater, a select coalition of Jewish organizations consistently steers the ship of state, ensuring that regardless of who occupies the Oval Office, the underlying geopolitical trajectory remains unchanged. Nowhere has this become more apparent than in the ongoing Iran war. The Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish...

Byron Lowell Donalds is a Republican U.S. Representative for Florida’s 19th Congressional District and the current Trump-endorsed frontrunner for Florida governor in the 2026 race. Widely described as a “rising star” in the GOP and one of only a handful of black Republicans in Congress, Donalds projects the image of a staunch “America First” conservative...

Since the war in Gaza began on October 7, 2023, unconditional American support for Israel has steadily worn away the asset Washington guards most jealously abroad: its credibility. That erosion did not pause when administrations changed. If anything, the Trump administration has widened it, pairing a blank check to Israel with a war on Iran...

Two earthquakes hit northern Venezuela on June 24, 2026, striking 39 seconds apart. The first registered 7.2. The second registered 7.5. The United States Geological Survey classified the pair as a doublet and placed both epicenters near Moron on the Caribbean coast, roughly 100 miles west of Caracas and about three miles from each other....

Last weekend brought a brief respite to those of us jaded by the current political order. On July 11, 2026, two days after 71st birthday, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina reportedly died from a sudden and brief illness. For more than three decades, from the halls of the South Carolina statehouse to the upper...

He operated from the shadows, shunned cameras, and cultivated an aura of mystery that made him appear less like a political consultant and more like a figure from a spy novel. Arthur Jay Finkelstein spent half a century whispering in the ears of presidents, prime ministers, and strongmen, teaching them the dark arts of political...

Hollywood motion pictures would have you believe that organized crime in America was a duopoly of Irish and Italian thugs, but there is another ethnic group that not only pioneered the corporate structure of the underworld but continues to exercise profound criminal influence to this day: organized Jewry. The Lower East Side of the late...