Opinion piece

The former aides started a social media account they said would publicize Senator John Fetterman’s communications, following a report detailing the Democrat’s disdain for doing his job.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/us/politics/john-fetterman-former-staff.html?unlocked_article_code=1._FA.hlhG.1WJsIrqhDocH&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Here’s some bad news: Sometimes the coyote does win.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/us/road-runner-coyote-photograph.html?unlocked_article_code=1._VA.Z9n0.96uYdTL1uYyk&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Data from Gallup shows that Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents have their largest advantage over Republicans since 2008.

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"New Canadian levies of up to 50 percent are expected to begin Tuesday, even as Washington warns of a new round of American tariffs."

A new sign at Arlington National Cemetery omits wording that said the 32-foot bronze statue “mythologized” the Confederacy and gave “sanitized” depictions of slavery.

https://wapo.st/3Tkesrg

A vote in eastern Germany has given fresh momentum to hard-right parties hoping to win elections elsewhere on the continent next year, analysts said.

Gen. Christopher T. Donahue’s vision for fighting future wars won him powerful supporters around the world. Could they save his career?

The U.N’s Anti-Israel ‘Genocide’ Purge

Alice Nderitu said Israel’s campaign in Gaza doesn’t meet the definition of genocide. She was fired.

Last November, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres declined to renew the contract of UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Alice Wairimu Nderitu, who did not label Israel’s war against Hamas a genocide, even while other UN officials have either done so or released reports which make this claim.

On November 26, an editorial in The Wall Street Journal cast Nderitu’s ousting as part of an unofficial UN campaign against the Jewish state and called her “refusal to endorse a lie in service of a political agenda” a “profile in courage.”

The Postal Service disputed allegations by the whistle-blower that the agency had violated several court orders that should have halted work on the plan.