‘Threatening and Intimidating’: Largest Teachers’ Union in United States Hit With Federal Antisemitism Complaint

The National Education Association (NEA) was hit with a federal complaint Monday alleging that it subjected Jewish members to an antisemitic environment, according to a copy of the complaint shared with the Washington Free Beacon.

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Dem House Candidate Paige Cognetti Owns Secret Second Home at ‘Fairy Tale’ Ski Resort

Scranton, Pa., mayor Paige Cognetti (D.) is running for Congress on a platform of "transparency" and as a working class champion, hammering her Republican opponent in Pennsylvania’s Eighth Congressional District for owning a "secret helicopter." But Cognetti has secret assets of her own that she has not publicly disclosed.

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New Jersey Dem Congressional Candidate Testified on Behalf of Terror Mastermind ‘Blind Sheikh’

A New Jersey plastic surgeon who is the leading fundraiser in the crowded Democratic congressional primary was an associate of terrorist mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman—the "Blind Sheikh"—and served as a defense witness at the trial that ultimately saw the cleric put away for life, court records show.

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All Steak, No Sizzle: Samuel Alito Gets Down to Business

Mollie Hemingway has written the rare Supreme Court book that's both useful and enjoyable. Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution works at once as biography, institutional history, and a kind of play-by-play of the Roberts Court in its most consequential years. It is, above all, a book about Samuel […]

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Lloyd Blankfein's Hard Knock Wall Street Life

From a very young age, Lloyd Blankfein, the former chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs from 2006 through 2018, was destined to work on Wall Street. His commercial instincts first began to show at the age of six when he became the neighborhood market maker for used comic books. By 13, he was selling concession food on commission in the stands at Yankee Stadium. By his formative teenage years, he had developed a transactional approach to life—"sizing up different kinds of people quickly" to see how they could be useful to him and then adjusting his outward persona like a chameleon to get what he wanted.

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Prime Time for Japan’s War Minister

General Hideki Tojo served as Japan’s war minister (administrative leader of the Imperial Army) from July 18, 1940, to July 18, 1944, and then concurrently as prime minister from October 17, 1941, to July 18, 1944. As such, he is a central figure in the war, functionally parallel to Winston S. Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Despite his indisputably high standing among all World War II leaders, this outstanding work by Peter Mauch provides the first full English-language portrait of Tojo in a reader-friendly narrative based on formidable research and shrewd judgment.

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From Codfish Cakes to Cap’n Crunch

If you have never encountered, or had to provide sustenance for, kiddos who eat a narrow, self-selected range of foods, count yourself among the rarest of gastronomic unicorns. For the rest of us, a source that offers context and sets a forward course ought to be a home run.

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Charles Not in Charge: King’s Visit Hits All the Right Notes but Doesn’t Reflect Reality

King Charles III’s trip across the Atlantic came at a difficult time. The Iran campaign marks a low point for the transatlantic alliance, his host country is preparing to celebrate the 250th anniversary of evicting his family’s rule, and the "no kings" protests remind Britain’s royals that many Americans still equate monarchy with tyranny.

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Anti-Israel Hadid Sister Lip-Syncs About Wanting To ‘Torture and Kill’ People, Turn Them Into ‘Fertilizer’

Anti-Israel activist Alana Hadid, the lesser-known sister of celebrity models Bella and Gigi Hadid, posted a video on social media of her lip-syncing to a song about wanting to "torture and kill" people and turn them into "fertilizer."

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'Working Class Mainer' Graham Platner Got $200K From His Father To Buy His House, Records Show. He Now Claims He Relied on Veterans Benefits.

Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, who is casting himself on the campaign trail as a "working class Mainer," received a $200,000 loan from his father, a prominent local attorney, to finance his home, property records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show. Platner has since said he couldn't have made the purchase without the "support of the VA," though he did not take advantage of the government-backed mortgages available to service members, according to the records.

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