Opinion

The apology from Rama Dawaji arrives with all the expected language—shame, reflection, acknowledgment of harm. On paper, it checks every box. She now says she understands the pain caused by her past behavior, including liking posts tied to the October 7 attacks by Hamas and using deeply offensive racial language. The phrasing is careful, deliberate, almost rehearsed. But that’s … [Read more...] about Rama Dawaji: A Late Apology and the Question of Timing

"Bolsheviks can't even organize a picnic." — Ada Shelby, Peaky Blinders The numbers are in. One store. Thirty million dollars. Opening in 2029. Mamdani budgeted $70 million for five stores. The first one alone is projected to cost $30 million — nearly half the entire program's budget, for a single location. A private operator opens a grocery store for $3 to $3.5 million. … [Read more...] about Ada Shelby on Zohran Mamdani’s Grocery Stores

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced her support for a proposal backed by mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani to impose a new tax on second homes in New York City valued at five million dollars or more. The stated justification is simple: the city needs money, wealthy people own expensive second homes, therefore those homes should generate additional revenue. It is the … [Read more...] about Hochul’s Second Home Tax Is a Press Release, Not a Policy

JD Vance recently declared that cutting off funding to Ukraine ranks among his proudest achievements in the Trump administration. The statement deserves to be taken seriously — not as a policy position, but as a moral self-portrait. A man who considers the abandonment of a democratic nation under active military assault one of his finest moments has told us exactly who he … [Read more...] about JD Vance’s Pride in Abandoning Ukraine Is a Confession, Not a Boast

France's exclusion from the Washington talks on Israeli-Lebanese normalization should have been a diplomatic scandal. A historic ally, the self-appointed guardian of the Levant, the country that wrote Lebanon's constitution and still commands the largest European contingent in UNIFIL — locked out of the most consequential Lebanon negotiation in thirty years. The story writes … [Read more...] about France’s Irrelevance in Lebanon Diplomacy