‘I Am Always Intrigued by People Who Kill’: Far-Left Jeweler Hosting Talarico and Brown Fundraiser Calls US a Sh—thole, Runs Creepy Female Serial Killer Ads

A radical socialist jeweler—who once dressed Michelle Obama and markets his jewelry with macabre dramatizations of a female serial killer—is set to host a big-dollar fundraiser for James Talarico and Sherrod Brown in New York City on Monday.

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Socialist Senate Hopeful Angie Nixon Slapped With Criminal Referral for Concealing Back Taxes and Student Loans From the Senate

An ethics watchdog group filed a criminal referral to Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday demanding an investigation into Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon for allegedly filing a false financial disclosure to the Senate in violation of the Ethics in Government Act.

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Scranton Mayor Running for Congress Turned Her Own Street Into a One-Way, Angering Residents: 'Somebody's Going To Get Killed There'

Scranton mayor Paige Cognetti (D.), who is running for Congress against Republican incumbent Rob Bresnahan, turned a stretch of the street she lives on into a one-way street without properly notifying the city council of the change, records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show. The move has led to dangerous near-accidents and hurt the business of a local trucking company, residents say.

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Iran at the Epicenter

A recurring problem with contemporary books about the Islamic Republic is that authors often deny Iranians the agency they deserve. Especially on the left, Western and Iranian journalists and scholars can embrace this crippling sentiment since it’s been a way to cast off blame for the ugliness—the primitiveness—of the Islamic revolution and the theocracy that […]

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A Little More Conversation

Reading this book will improve your life. No kidding whatsoever. Indeed, just getting a copy from your local library and spending 90 minutes with it will improve your life. Nicholas Epley, a distinguished behavioral scientist at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, commutes by train every workday to Hyde Park for 30 minutes […]

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What a Piece of Work Is Man

For people who have not been initiated to the career of Jon Ronson, it is almost impossible to explain; for people who have, his career is almost impossible to ignore. The America-residing Welsh journalist, whose specialty may be said to be "the weird," is a member of a small and shrinking group of working nonfiction […]

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REVIEW: 'The Color of Money'

The Color of Money is not the best film in its three leads' bodies of work (meaning costars Paul Newman and Tom Cruise, alongside director Martin Scorsese). That would be—reader objections expected—The Sting for Newman, Collateral for Cruise, and Goodfellas for Scorsese. Nor is it the most impressive entry in each man's catalogue: Newman's alcoholic ambulance chaser in The Verdict and Cruise's pickup artist-slash-motivational speaker in Magnolia represent two actors at the peak of their powers, while Raging Bull is Scorsese's true technical masterpiece. But The Color of Money occupies a genuinely important place in each of their careers.

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The Summit with More at Stake Than You Think

Summits between American and Chinese leaders often seem to mark turning points in international politics. In the 2013 meeting in the Sunnylands, the freshly installed Xi Jinping mollified Barack Obama by promising to stop his regime's hacking campaign. After breaking that promise, in 2016 Beijing denied Obama a staircase for Air Force One and forced him to exit "the ass of the plane" rather than get the normal red carpet. Last year's showdown in Busan partly halted the trade war, and this year's summit indicated that the uneasy truce will continue.

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France’s Macron and the Law of the Jungle

Of all the speeches that hit the headlines during the U.N. General Assembly—President Trump's, Iranian president Pezeshkian's, Prime Minister Netanyahu's, the Jordanian king's—the one that was most stunning came from the president of France, Emmanuel Macron.

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High Hopes Never Die: Buttigieg Surges to 1 Percent With Black Voters

Pete Buttigieg has reason to celebrate after a recent poll of 2028 primary voters found his support among black voters surging to 1 percent. Though the result is well within the margin of error, it's still a notable accomplishment for a Democrat whose black support is often marked as "statistically insignificant."

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