Alan Dershowitz wants a Republican Party that looks less white. Speaking with Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch on the Rabbi for America podcast in an episode released on October 18, the lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein urged disaffected Democrats to join the GOP and r-shape it from within. Schonbuch set up the exchange by voicing the objection he...

In September 2026, Texas completed a sweeping rewrite of its social studies curriculum. The State Board of Education voted 8 to 4 on September 4 to adopt new high school standards covering United States History, Government, World History, and World Geography. The most contested provision requires students to identify 1948 as the year the modern...

In September 2026, Ansar Allah swept across Yemen’s Tihama coastal plain, captured the historic Red Sea port of Al-Makha, and seized Mayyun Island inside the Bab al-Mandab strait—the narrow chokepoint through which roughly 10 percent of world trade passes between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The echoes of that geography run deep...

When American rapper Macklemore took the stage as Ed Sheeran’s opening act at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on September 4 and 5, he used the platform to make a case for Palestinian liberation before audiences estimated at roughly 80,000. He performed “Hind’s Hall”—a protest song named for Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old Palestinian girl killed...

Contrary to the celebratory myth that the Civil Rights movement ushered in an era of seamless egalitarian brotherhood, the actual implementation of its ideals exposed bitter, ethnic rivalries even among the very groups that worked to undermine White society. On May 9, 1968, 19 educators received letters from the Ocean Hill-Brownsville governing board telling them...

In September 2026, Ansar Allah, derisively labeled as the Houthis in Western foreign policy circles, redrew the map of western Yemen in a matter of days. Its fighters swept down the Red Sea coast, seized Mocha on September 10, then pushed through Dhubab and took Mayyun Island at the heart of the Bab el-Mandeb strait...

Few Reconstruction figures have faded from public memory as completely as Franklin J. Moses Jr. Moses entered South Carolina history under a cloud of scandal and left it in disgrace. As governor, he accepted bribes, traded favors, and misused public funds. His obscurity, however, conceals a more consequential story. Moses ranked among the most outspoken...

Every Republican is an immigration hawk until the help stops showing up for work. Sen. Jim Justice (R-WV) wants Immigration and Customs Enforcement to change its enforcement tactics in rural America. The West Virginia Republican declared that this is “a very difficult balancing act from the standpoint of our ranchers” because enforcement had left some...

To remember Emanuel Celler only as the congressman behind landmark immigration reform is to miss the wider program he pursued for much of his career. The Jewish congressman was a forceful proponent of foreign intervention, international institutions, refugee admissions, and a more deeply entrenched American commitment to the State of Israel. Those commitments stood behind...