3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (294+ words) An error-filled new Harvard Law School report relies on terror-linked sources to depict Israel as burning Palestinian children to a crisp. Antisemitism at Harvard contributed to the resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay and is at the center of a…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (409+ words) With polls showing he's a shoo-in to win his reelection campaign in November, Democratic Maryland governor Wes Moore during a Wednesday podcast interview gave a not-so-subtle indication that he is preparing a run for president in 2028. "I am going to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (177+ words) A highly hyped New York Times investigation—touted with the unusual label "Times Exclusive"—appeared this month under the headline "How the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History." It complained that "many of the justices have valued confidentiality over…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (410+ words) The city of Seattle is facing legal threats over a community gardening program that prioritizes minorities for plots of land and forces applicants to sign an "anti-racism statement," provisions that a conservative legal group says are unlawful. The Pacific Legal…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (212+ words) Even before I plunged into reading Korean Messiah—with its 550-odd pages of narrative text and another 150 pages of endnotes—I was riveted by a map at the very beginning of the book. It depicted Central Pyongyang in 1912, two years…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (422+ words) Another honoree of Nixon's wall is Assata Shakur, the infamous Black Liberation Army member who was convicted of murdering a New Jersey state trooper during a traffic stop in 1973 while she was a wanted fugitive for bank robbery and other…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (146+ words) Imagine a world in which the late Cambridge University professor Jason Arday had released a widely hyped book published by Simon & Schuster, one of the Big Five publishing houses, then embarked on a book tour, and nobody said anything. For…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (443+ words) Piker, best known for arguing that "America deserved 9/11," was positively defiant earlier this month when Abdul El-Sayed narrowly won the Democratic U.S. Senate primary in Michigan. He scoffed at the idea that El-Sayed should adopt a conciliatory approach to the establishment…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (880+ words) My first encounter with a literary agent was in 1970, the year I worked in publishing for Quadrangle-New York Times Books. The agent was a man named Georges Borchardt. I was seeking the rights to publish a collection of the highbrow…...