English journalists Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt have produced an engaging and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny journey from the earliest days of socialism …
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‘Project Hail Mary’ is another ‘you can just do things’ story from sci-fi novelist Andy Weir
by AiNewsBlogby AiNewsBlogIf there is a poet laureate of the “you can just do things” crowd, it’s novelist Andy Weir. Weir broke into the …
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A Minnesota Police Chief Said ICE Was Harassing Residents. Here Are Some of Their Stories.
by AiNewsBlogby AiNewsBlogA month ago, the police chief of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, held an extraordinary press conference where he accused federal immigration officers of …
An excerpt from Judge Andrew Carter’s opinion Friday in Shaykhoun v. Daily Mail (S.D.N.Y.): Sonya Shaykhoun (“Plaintiff”) is a licensed New York …
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has spent years cultivating the image of a polished, camera-ready Democrat, equally comfortable with conservative critics as well …
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DHS Delivers Snark After Video Contradicts Story On Disabled Refugee Who Died
by AiNewsBlogby AiNewsBlogThe Department of Homeland Security doubled down Friday on its insistence that officers did nothing wrong in their handling of a disabled …
2026 will see a bumper crop of books about Justice Samuel Alito. Three are planned: Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court …
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The Books Briefing: The Fine Balance Required of an ‘Authorial Rant’
by AiNewsBlogby AiNewsBlogThis is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. …
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburghers expected to have to dodge ice-covered sidewalks and piles of snow along Commonwealth Place. Two weeks after a winter …
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Pam Bondi Roasted By Lawmakers For Bringing A ‘Mean Girls’-Like ‘Burn Book’ To Hearing
by AiNewsBlogby AiNewsBlogWe’re honestly surprised the words “fugly slut” never came out of her mouth. Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before the House Judiciary …
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Viral story claims ICE worker was in child sex trafficking sting. The truth is stranger.
by AiNewsBlogby AiNewsBlogA man who reportedly does background checks for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was arrested in a Bloomington, Minnesota, sex sting. But …
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The contest for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination is underway, and this time, the battle is unfolding on bookshelves as much as …
Fox News’s Shannon Bream said her new book, Nothing is Impossible with God, delves into how “pain doesn’t have to be without …
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Kayleigh McEnany’s ‘Melania’ Movie Story Has Critics Asking For Receipts
by AiNewsBlogby AiNewsBlogMcEnany, who served as White House press secretary during Donald Trump’s first term, told her “Outnumbered” co-hosts that her mother watched the …
At a diner next to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, five men took turns loudly saying a racial slur to prove they are bona …
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday brought back what used to be a staple of his speeches: people who spontaneously burst into tears …
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Kevin Roberts’ book ‘Dawn’s Early Light’ explains the Heritage Foundation meltdown
by AiNewsBlogby AiNewsBlogOn a Thursday night in December, I got a breathless call from a Heritage Foundation senior scholar. John Malcolm and Jessica Reinsch, …
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Anyone who loves George Saunders’s writing can tell you about his wicked imagination: luminous, dark, wholly original, and quite frequently supernatural. Saunders …
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It’s the oldest, creakiest trope in the zombie-movie storybook: You know who’s scarier than decaying, flesh-eating monsters? The people they’re chasing! Every …
In 1928, Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance published a memoir that caused a sensation in the literary world. It opened with his …
Remember when prominent Democrats insisted that we should “believe women” when they complain about sexual harassment? Well, apparently, that goes out the …
Polar War: Submarines, Spies, and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic, by Kenneth R. Rosen, Simon & Schuster, 320 pages, …
Many people—the overwhelmed, dissatisfied, or understimulated—share a powerful desire to escape the life they’re living. But doing so usually isn’t practical or …
Separating the art from the artist can be easier debated than done. In 1967, Roland Barthes infamously argued in his essay “The …
If you’re like most Americans, you get the bulk of your cardio from marching in—or fleeing from—pitchfork-wielding mobs. These days, those mobs …
