How America's Afghan Withdrawal Created a National Security Catastrophe
Twenty-year-old Sarah Beckstrom volunteered to work Thanksgiving so others could be home with family. Hours later, she lay dying in a Washington hospital, shot in the chest and head by an Afghan refugee America had promised to save. The
Remember Google’s old motto, "Don't Be Evil"? It seems Eric Schmidt, the man who steered the ship from a quirky search engine to a global surveillance behemoth between 2001 and 2011, might have interpreted that phrase less as a moral compass and more as a
Bill Ackman saw it happening in real time and said what everyone else was too polite or too naive to say: someone was rigging the betting markets to make Zohran Mamdani's victory look inevitable. I knew months ago that Mamdani won, and there was nothing anyone could do.
NEW YORK — If you want to understand who is actually running New York City come January, don’t look at Zohran Mamdani. He’s just the front man, the charismatic avatar programmed to say "equity" while the city burns. If you want to see the source code, you
"At the heart of every scam is a wish that things were different." — Maria Konnikova, The Confidence Game
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In a city that runs on hustle, there is a fine line between "ambitious self-starter" and "criminal sociopath." Usually, that line is defined by
“The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.”
— Walter E. Williams
This is what happens when the social contract dissolves into tire smoke.
Malba is supposed to be the quiet part of Queens. It is where you move to avoid the
“A kingdom is inherited by the sword, but preserved by wisdom.” Zera Yacob
On Friday, New York City's incoming mayor sat across from Donald Trump in the Oval Office and the two men discovered, or at least performed the discovery, that they had far more in common than
Fourteen years. FOURTEEN. They didn’t even pretend this was justice. They marched Prakazrel “Pras” Michel into that D.C. courtroom, a black man who once stood on stage screaming “kill the police” and “revolution,” and they buried him alive for the crime of being the bagman who carried Barack
