The United Kingdom has become an Anglosphere outlier in its attachment to coronavirus restrictions. In other English-speaking democracies, something close to normal life has resumed. But Brits…
VANDERGRIFT, Pennsylvania — It’s 8:30 a.m. on Friday, and despite the threat of a summer thunderstorm, 10 men, all members of the United Steelworkers District 10, are…
While juvenile activists proclaim “All cops are bastards” and their ideological champions in Congress demand we “defund the police” and their blinkered friends in the press corps…
In July 2009, reports emerged that security forces had shot dead Abubakar Shekau, the brutal leader of the Nigeria-based terrorist organization Boko Haram. In the summer of…
John McAfee, the legendary software pioneer turned eccentric outlaw turned cryptocurrency kingpin, died of an apparent suicide at 75, just hours after learning that he would be…
By the end of the summer, the Supreme Court had a vacancy. The president nominated the jurist he “judged most qualified” to serve on the court, but…
In the first scene of the first book of Edward St. Aubyn’s celebrated, elegantly horrific Patrick Melrose cycle, Patrick’s father, an evil aristocrat in dressing gown and…
The opening paragraph of Lorna Mott Comes Home, Diane Johnson’s first novel in over a decade, sets the tone for the rest of the book. The very…
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On top of its other tragedies, 2020 saw the biggest surge in violent crime in decades. Homicides rose a projected 25% to 30%, to over 20,000 dead.…
President Joe Biden’s expected revival of the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement will enable Iranian oil barrels to reach the global market when prices are at their highest…
