How a Colorado slumlord's psyop turned into a brand-new 'forever war' on Venezuela [...]

In an interview, Trump discussed amassing power, court battles and an agenda that is transforming America [...]

In March, the pipeline company Energy Transfer won a massive civil suit against the environmental nonprofit Greenpeace. The case dates back to 2016, when as many as 10,000 activists traveled [...]

"Democrats, you didn't see that coming," was my initial response when I read that newly elected Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg would raise the dough to support progressives challenging failing Democrats in the primaries. [...]

Today, the Democratic Party faces an identity crisis that is eroding its national appeal. Recent polls show that less than 30% of Americans, including lifelong Democrats, struggle to define what the party stands for. While there have been some recent victories in Wisconsin and closer margins in Florida congressional races than two years ago, it would be a mistake to assume that the party is on the brink of some sort of miraculous comeback. [...]

Elon Musk arrived in Washington as the most powerful political outsider ever, brimming with Silicon Valley swagger and bipartisan buy-in for his goal of streamlining the federal government. [...]

Thursday on the RealClearPolitics radio show -- weeknights at 6:00 p.m. on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 and then on Apple, Spotify, and here on our website -- Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and National Review columnist Heather Wilhelm start the show with the battle between Harvard University and President Trump. Can Harvard do enough to appease President Trump and keep federal funding without following Columbia's path and "capitulating"? Are Trump's demands more than an "Art of the Deal" style outrageous first offer? [...]

Not since Franklin Roosevelt has a new president driven so many shifts, so fast. Here's 100 things that have already changed under Donald Trump. [...]

Turkey’s softened stance signals a strategic shift in its approach to Syria’s Kurds and the PKK. [...]

As Iran and the United States are set to kick off a third round of their nuclear negotiations, Tehran is grappling with mounting confusion about Washington's stance while reaffirming that its right to enrich uranium is not up for debate. [...]

As Iran and the United States are set to kick off a third round of their nuclear negotiations, Tehran is grappling with mounting confusion about Washington's stance while reaffirming that its right to enrich uranium is not up for debate. [...]

Syria's foreign minister on Friday raised his country's new flag at UN headquarters in New York, hailing the move as a "proclamation of a new existence" after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.Asaad al-Shaibani raised the three-starred flag, officially adopted after Assad's December ouster, and later spoke to the Security Council, where he urged a lifting of international sanctions and for Israel to be pressured to leave Syrian territory."This flag is not a mere symbol, but rather a proclamation of a new existence," he said in his first United Nations speech. [...]

Lebanon is sending President Joseph Aoun to Rome for the funeral, with Turkey, Iran and other states also dispatching officials. [...]

Lebanon is sending President Joseph Aoun to Rome for the funeral, with Turkey, Iran and other states also dispatching officials. [...]

Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad is in Moscow this week, meeting with Russian Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev on Friday. [...]

Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad is in Moscow this week, meeting with Russian Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev on Friday. [...]

In an interview with Time Magazine, President Donald Trump says he believes a deal with Iran can be reached via negotiations while expressing readiness for war in the event that it doesn't. [...]

In an interview with Time Magazine, President Donald Trump says he believes a deal with Iran can be reached via negotiations while expressing readiness for war in the event that it doesn't. [...]

David Sanger, NYT President Trump has said his punishing tariffs would force companies to build factories in the United States. But it is far from clear that they will have the effects he [...]

Market Minder, Fisher Investments Take a step back, scale and add perspective. [...]

John Tamny, RealClear In their recent Wall Street Journal [...]

Benjamin Weingarten, RCI Against fierce resistance, the Trump administration is enlisting the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration in its crackdown on illegal [...]

Charles Sauer, RCM President Trump's Administration and media coverage of it has exposed a problem with modern society - information overload. We are [...]

John Stossel, New York Post Bunk, bunk, bunk: Environmental zealots are addicted to scaring us with climate myths — because it pays. [...]

Donald Lambro, Washington Times Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has to do two things really well at his convention: Lay out in dramatic terms how bad the Obama economy is and [...]

Ezra Klein, WonkBlog I see that the Republican convention will feature a debt clock ticking away behind the speakers. It will also, as I understand it, consist entirely of speakers who [...]

Rick Newman, US News By now, everybody knows what's wrong with the economy: There aren't enough jobs, Europe is stuck in a financial quagmire and Washington is playing chicken with tax and [...]

Jason Ma, IBD Corporations are scaling back investment, hiring and inventories ahead of steep year-end tax hikes and spending cuts, the most concrete sign to date that uncertainty over the [...]

In writing about a certain beloved establishment in Amsterday, Condé Nast Traveler observed that “[y]ou could write a short novel about this hotel (maybe someone has),” including stints as a convent and government building before being converted into its current use as a hotel. The hotel in question is Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam — […] The post One Amsterdam Hotel’s Renovation Balances Luxury and History appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

While some of the big players in the world of self-driving vehicles are technology companies, established ride-share firms are also making their mark in the market. Last month, Lyft announced the expansion of its autonomous vehicle options to Atlanta, and they aren’t the only company to do so. This week, Uber announced a wide-ranging partnership […] The post Uber Announces Ambitious Robotaxi Partnership With Volkswagen appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Growing up, I never really knew what to make of swimmers. They seemed a wacky bunch: clannish with chlorine-streaked hair, always boarding buses at the crack of dawn for aquatic centers around the county. From the outside, I guess, the whole thing just looked like a giant hassle — a difficult sport with tricky logistics. […] The post It’s Never Too Late to Start Swimming. Here’s How. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Scroll through TikTok these days and you’ll be bombarded with weight-loss tips. I constantly swipe past users hawking dubious solutions, from “appetite suppressant” gummies to something called cortisol lemonade that’s supposed to curb your sweet cravings. The phrase “nature’s Ozempic” is also thrown around quite a lot. If I wanted to shed a few pounds, […] The post The Kit: What CC Sabathia Uses to Train, Fuel and Recover appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

There’s nothing subtle about the scent perfuming the reception at SB Winemaker’s House. Sun-warmed leather. Green citrus. Sandalwood. Uninhibited white flowers. The bouquet evokes the DNA of Mendoza, Argentina’s largest wine region, where lavish gated gardens and photogenic vineyards root in a rugged frontier of high-desert plains. Ana Lovaglio runs the stylish seven-suite inn with […] The post Strong Scents of Place: How Hospitality Brands Are Utilizing Fragrance appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

With dozens, if not hundreds of new collections appearing every single week from our favorite brands, we’ve done the hard work and rounded up the need-to-know style, watch and grooming drops that you simply can’t afford to miss. No need to thank us or anything. This week: J.Crew and Sperry tag-team a suede boat shoe, […] The post All the Style Drops You Should Care About This Week appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

The psychic divide between the U.S. and Mexico may be at peak pandemonium. Cross-border politics are at a fever pitch. But how much has changed about literal cross-border adventure? As I found out on a recent two-wheeled jaunt to Baja California and back again, that turbulence has added a new intensity to the proceedings, but […] The post The Best Way to Test Kawasaki’s New Sport Tourer? On a Ride Into Mexico. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

We recently discovered that men don’t know where to buy pants — or button-ups, or jackets. Or clothes in general. This is confounding to us, as we’ve been preaching the good word of Todd for going on a decade now, and the Americana GOAT continues to deliver all of the menswear upgrades a bewildered shopper […] The post Spring Suiting Awaits at the Todd Snyder Sale appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Bespoke Post’s curation is top-tier. After all, the retailer has made a name for itself on the strength of its excellent, highly unique subscription service, stocking each box with heady stock from a killer brand roster that includes Taylor Stitch, Novesta and Houseplant. Bespoke Post is bringing this same level of taste and sensibility to […] The post Bespoke Post Is Getting Its Own Archival-Inspired Timex Collab appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Amazon is obsessed with creating its own consumer holidays. They piggyback on the standard ones, like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, of course, but their own creations are constantly multiplying: Prime Day, Prime Big Deal Days, the Big Spring Sale, Amazon Pet Day — I could go on. Last year, they introduced a new one: […] The post Just When You Thought Amazon Couldn’t Get Worse appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Nige Tassell, HistoryExtra What comes after a pope dies? Step through the doors of Vatican into the conclave - the secretive, ritualistic and sometimes scandalous process that turns a [...]

Dave Roos, HISTORY The ancient office of the pope is rich in symbols and insignia. [...]

Daniel Yergin, AMERICAN HERITAGE The presidency of Jimmy Carter was both shaped and bracketed by energy. [...]

Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Mag Revere, who was later immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem, was one of many riders who rode through the countryside, spreading the alarm on [...]

Nicole Hemmer, Vox Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video [...]

Myles Burke, BBC In April 1983, a British newspaper, The Sunday Times, claimed to be printing an extraordinary historical document. In fact, the forged diaries were an extraordinary hoax. [...]

Andrew J. Bacevich, New York Times An implicit question haunts this illuminating and richly detailed memoir by Michael G. Vickers, the senior intelligence official at the center of [...]

Jonathan Jarry, McGill University Did Nazis love yoga? That is the provocative title of one chapter in the recently published book Conspirituality: How New Age [...]

Hannah Osborne, Live Science A giant predator that lived 240 million years ago was decapitated with a single, brutal bite from a deadlier creature, scientists have said. [...]

Agence France-Presse MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era German destroyer off its coast 13 years ago, and recast it as a dove [...]

An algorithm that maps individual brain activity can reveal a “neural fingerprint” of  transient brain states during social interactions. The authors of the new paper believe their work demonstrates that individuals whose neural fingerprints are more aligned tend to more readily enter a shared state of deep focus—commonly known as team flow—which has profound implications for enhancing teamwork and performance across various high-stakes environments.read more [...]

The Organic Consumers Association, the embarrassing stepchild of the organic industry founded by the late Ronnie Cummins in 1998, has a positive-sounding name but has been nothing except negative for science and the public. Though the United States Department of Agriculture calls them an "organic agricultural products marketing and trade resource" organization they have really just been fifth columnists against vaccines, affordable food, and everything else that helps the modern world.read more [...]

I get pitches for stories every day and sometimes I want to see if the world that opposes science has made any progress now that a member of a Republican administration who was formerly one of their own, former Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is being helped by their rhetoric.So when I got a message from a PR rep for the Real Organic Project™ about their client, I wanted to know if they still oppose hydroponic food. Hydroponic food uses no soil, which means in a controlled environment it needs no pesticides. The public loves that idea. [...]

K2-18b, detected in 2015, orbits a star 124 light years away. Though it is over 800% as large as Earth, its space in the habitable zone of its star, like where we are, means the possibiliy that liquid water could exist on its surface.The science community calls it The Goldilocks Zone. Like the character in the children's story who wanted porridge neither too hot nor too cold, a Goldilocks planet that might have life we could recognize would need to be in a similar narrow band.read more [...]

What? Another boring chess game?Buzz off, this is my blog, and if I feel like posting a chess game, that's what is going to happen. But if you like the game, stay here - this is a nice game.Again played after hiours today, and again on a 5' online blitz server (chess.com). What amazes me is that these days I seem to have a sort of touch for nice attacks and brilliant combinations. Let me show you why I am saying this.The starting position arose after the following opening sequence:tommasodorigo - UTOPII841, chess.com April 16 2025read more [...]

Prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Europeans claimed they were successfully moving away from modern agriculture and conventional energy thanks to the organic™ manufacturing process and solar power. What they left out was that the "organic" food they were buying was from Russia, where either Russia invented magic or they simply swapped fields to being called organic, or it was a lie.(1) The biggest hypocrisy of European culture is pretending that buying food through a European company that buys it from Russia is not giving money to Russia. They use the same trick to continue to be reliant on Russian [...]

After a very intense day at work, I sought some relaxation in online blitz chess today. And the game gave me the kick I was hoping I'd get. After a quick Alapin Sicilian opening, we reached the following position (diagram 1):As you can see, black is threatening a checkmate with Qxg2++. However, the last move was a serious error, as it neglected the intrinsic power of my open files and diagonals against the black king. Can you find the sequence with which I quickly destroyed my opponent's position?1. Qc2! read more [...]

Among the 900 compounds that France's International Agency for Research on Cancer "suggests" are linked to cancer, nearly all have relied on studies in mice.Scientists know mice are not little people but epidemiologists use animal models, very often at high doses, up to 10,000X realistic levels, to make their claims that everything causes cancer. Such abuse of animal models is why states like California, which abdicated science to IARC, has over 80,000 products with warnings about carcinogens yet no more or fewer cases of cancer.read more [...]

President Donald Trump is about to sign an executive order restarting coal leasing on federal lands while classifying coal as a critical mineral. Social media critics, and academics being quoted in media, are declaring the end of the world due to American pollution. Are they correct?read more [...]

Duckweed split into different species 59 million years ago, when the climate was more extreme than even the most aggressive climate simulation produced now.A new study, genome sequences for five duckweed species, reveals how duckweed can essentially farm itself, and because it can double in mass after two days what that might mean for the future of food science.read more [...]