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On January 8, 2023, one thing seemed dead certain: Donald Trump was going to be indicted for his grossly negligent mishandling of national-defense secrets--in the main, classified documents he illegally [...]

A paper titled 'In Defense of Merit in Science' was rejected by several academic journals not because its argument seemed to be false or trivial but because it was, as [...]

If he had been born 'Martin Yobbo,' would his rise in the world of Brit lit have been so meteoric? Martin Amis, son of the great Kingsley, wrote a very [...]

The Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John Jay (J & A McLean, New York, 1788) Most countries don't have an instruction manual. But, then, most countries don't need [...]

In the March 21 issue, National Review informed subscribers that the combination of labor turmoil, the long-term trend of paper mills' retooling for the production of corrugated-cardboard boxes, and supply-chain [...]

OpenAI, the artificial-intelligence company, has debuted a chatbot that will answer questions, write term papers and ad copy, compose jokes and limericks, all in disturbingly good human-speak. We're not worried [...]

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The Bank of England is planning a new series of paper currency, and the image on the five-pound note will be Winston Churchill's. An obvious choice, one might think, and [...]

It's a commonplace insult to compare a print publication that one dislikes to toilet paper. Yet if you had to go without toilet paper, you'd miss it a lot quicker [...]

World Bank chief economist Penny Goldberg resigned after only 15 months on the job, reportedly in protest of Bank officials' refusal to publish a paper critical of the institution. The [...]

* The Washington Post published a blockbuster report: 'The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War.' Through the Freedom of Information Act, the Post had obtained more than 2,000 [...]

Not only were Trump's policies more continuous with those of his predecessors than his wild-eyed nationalist allies would like to admit, but that continuity is also observable in how the GOP has acted since Trump left office. ARTICLES AN epochal shift in how the Republican Party conducts America's foreign affairs began on April 27, 2016. Operating on some vestigial assumptions from the Trump era, a number of prominent Republicans actually defended Joe Biden's decision to execute Trump's unfulfilled desire to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan. Trump talked often about his desire to see America's NATO allies spend more both on their collective defense and to compensate the United States for its beneficence. [Extracted from the article]

Some think the POTUS plays 4-D chess; some think he's stumped by rock-paper-scissors. The latter group was horrified when President Trump pulled out of the INF treaty over Russian violations. [...]

December 17, 1958Dear Santa, if that is in fact your real name (I have my doubts),This letter is pursuant to our conversation of last Saturday, in the 'Christmas Village' at [...]

New Express is a paper in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, or Canton, as we used to call it. It has been exceptionally bold. One of its reporters, Chen Yongzhou, [...]

The article discusses the effects of the coronavirus pandemic to free-market economies by examining the supply of toilet paper in stores. Also cited are a comparison of capitalism and socialism, how central authorities in socialist countries are more advantageous than free markets in capitalist countries during pandemics, and the relationship between supply and demand in free-market systems.

Scholars James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian did a great service exposing the nature of grievance-studies 'disciplines' when they managed to get seven hoax papers accepted for publication in [...]

* Rob Porter, the White House staff secretary, was in charge of the flow of paper into and out of the Oval Office. The Daily Mail reported that two ex-wives [...]

Florida Atlantic University has placed instructor Deandre Poole on leave for telling his class to write the name 'Jesus' on pieces of paper and step on them. Poole said that [...]

Someone leaked a 'white paper' offering the administration's legal justification for targeted assassinations of such American citizens as al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed by a drone strike in [...]

The Journal News, a Gannett paper serving the suburbs north of New York City, recently secured the names and addresses of pistol-permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties through an [...]

The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West, by Hamid Dabashi (University of California Press, 336 pp., $29.95) The Bin Laden Papers: How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth [...]

Reading the papers, it looks like Republicans are running the most lowdown, dishonest campaign since the last time they [...]

Even a fevered spy novelist might shy away from putting on paper the latest events in the Israel-Iran conflict: Iranian scientists killed on their morning commutes by assassins on motorcycles; [...]

Eastman Kodak may seek bankruptcy protection; anyone with an album of prints held in place on stiff paper by triangular photo corners will feel a twinge. George Eastman began making [...]

The Gingrich campaign issued a paper on the historical and constitutional weakness of the Supreme Court's claim to supremacy in matters of constitutional interpretation, on the dangerous consequences of that [...]

The Washington Post came up with a big and juicy scoop: At a West Texas hunting camp 'associated' with Governor Perry, as the paper said, there is or was a [...]

A group of scientists at Penn State--including one who does work for NASA--have published a paper in the journal of the International Academy of Astronautics, speculating on the conditions under [...]

Paper or a biodegradable material made from corn starch? This question has replaced the more traditional 'Paper or plastic?' at San Francisco supermarkets, and the New York City Council may […]

Probably killed in a general persecution of Catholics by Communists in 1949, when the regime of Kim Il Sung was inaugurating the North Korean version of the Reign of Terror, [...]

Hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean is running for president of Haiti, and has filed election papers. Haiti is Jean's native land, though he has lived in the U.S. since childhood. Since [...]

Academic journals are not free from political pressure--as the Climategate e-mails revealed, global-warming enthusiasts have a penchant for ousting journal editors who run skeptical papers. Apparently, however, even well-policed journals [...]

Zimbabwe's currency has long been literally worth less than the paper it's printed on. The government's need for more bills has presumably been good business for German printers Giesecke & [...]

The New York Times's critics often find plenty of ammo in the paper's corrections; when they're lucky, they even get corrections of corrections. Rarely, however, does a correction reveal the [...]

It is not every day we agree with an International Herald Tribune editorial, but we must hail one the paper had about Frank-Walter Steinmeier. He is Germany's vice chancellor and [...]

'Public service' is a slippery term that might refer to anything from heroic deeds by military personnel to make-work paper shuffling in pointless federal bureaucracies. In the mouths of Democrats, [...]

The French paper Liberation has published an article headed 'Jogging: Is it right-wing?' The article questions President Sarkozy's dedication to jogging, which he does in his much-loved (and much-maligned) NYPD […]

The timing of the Commerce Department's decision to impose tariffs on paper imports from China looks suspiciously like a Bush-administration attempt to placate Democrats, manufacturers, and Big Labor on the […]

ALTHOUGH multiculturalism is one of the buzzwords of the Nineties, Jewish writers were enjoying its benefits as long ago as the 1950s. For while novelists like Bellow, Malamud, and Roth [...]

The Brooklyn Paper reported in December that 'an anti-capitalist artist plans to open a cash-optional coffee shop in Williamsburg.' The coffee shop is meant to be an art project with [...]

Starbucks's pumpkin-spice latte, a popular seasonal indulgence, has been exposed by two academics as a sinister totem of white privilege in a peer-reviewed paper titled 'The Perilous Whiteness of Pumpkins.' [...]

Dear Publius: Got a hypothetical question for you. Would love your insight into this. Just say, hypothetically, that Congreffis trying to enact legislation that would benefitte pretty much everyone except [...]

At Le Moyne College, Scott McConnell was pursuing a graduate degree in education when he wrote a term paper describing the ideal classroom environment as one that would be 'based [...]

The American Legislative Exchange Council gives a very nice award: the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism, named after the late columnist of the Detroit News (and other papers), [...]

Salama Na'mat, the Washington, D.C., bureau chief of the London-based Arabic-language daily Al-Hayat, published an article in his paper criticizing Arab regimes and the Arab media for encouraging the Iraqi [...]

According to the papers, Hillary Clinton is quite the moderate on abortion, leading her party to a less absolutist position. True, the senator has made some rhetorical feints, in classic [...]

* LeMoyne College, in Syracuse, N.Y., has expelled a student for writing a paper in which he defended the use of corporal punishment in schools. The offender, Scott McConnell, was [...]

* In 1905 Albert Einstein published three brilliant scientific papers, each of which had a profound effect on the development of the physical sciences. This year marks the centenary of [...]

* New York Times ombudsman Daniel Okrent on his paper's coverage of gay marriage: 'On a topic that has produced one of the defining debates of our time, Times editors [...]

'For the last three years, we've been digging into his papers, and what we're finding is dramatic. He worked all the time. Every time we thought he had gone to [...]