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After taking the helm at New York’s financially troubled Nassau University Medical Center late last year, Megan C. Ryan stumbled upon something baffling in the books: a two-decade-long series of transactions engineered by New York State that may have shortchanged the hospital by a staggering $1 billion in matching funds. As a hospital primarily serving patients on Medicare, Medicaid, or who are uninsured, the medical center qualified for federal matching grants...
For more than 30 years, the author and public intellectual Peter Brimelow has argued for and published the writings of like-minded “immigration patriots” who support strong restrictions on immigration. Standing at the right edge of the policy debate, he has drawn the ire of pro-immigration advocates who ascribe racism to his positions. Left-wing groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League label him a “white nationalist.” They put him and VDARE,...
“Portland is burning to the ground,” President Trump told a press pool in early October. This followed earlier assertions that the city was a “war zone,” “like WW II,” and “under siege from attack by Antifa” mobs. Having lived in Portland for 15 years and covered 2020’s violent protests extensively, I found the president’s claims simultaneously plausible and overwrought. Footage from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility south of downtown...
The fertile Middle Belt region in north-central Nigeria became a killing field in June, when more than 200 Christian men, women, and children were slaughtered in an apparent series of coordinated attacks. The massacre was the latest in a string of killings that have taken the lives of an estimated 7,000 Nigerian Christians so far this year. Since 2009, Islamists – including Boko Haram and outside terrorist groups such as ISIS...

Americans Are Increasingly Alone, But Are They Really Lonely?

After taking the helm at New York’s financially troubled Nassau University Medical Center late last year, Megan C. Ryan stumbled upon something baffling in the books: a two-decade-long series of transactions engineered by New York State that may have shortchanged the hospital by a staggering $1 billion in matching funds. As a hospital primarily serving patients on Medicare, Medicaid, or who are uninsured, the medical center qualified for federal matching grants...
For more than 30 years, the author and public intellectual Peter Brimelow has argued for and published the writings of like-minded “immigration patriots” who support strong restrictions on immigration. Standing at the right edge of the policy debate, he has drawn the ire of pro-immigration advocates who ascribe racism to his positions. Left-wing groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League label him a “white nationalist.” They put him and VDARE,...
“Portland is burning to the ground,” President Trump told a press pool in early October. This followed earlier assertions that the city was a “war zone,” “like WW II,” and “under siege from attack by Antifa” mobs. Having lived in Portland for 15 years and covered 2020’s violent protests extensively, I found the president’s claims simultaneously plausible and overwrought. Footage from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility south of downtown...
The fertile Middle Belt region in north-central Nigeria became a killing field in June, when more than 200 Christian men, women, and children were slaughtered in an apparent series of coordinated attacks. The massacre was the latest in a string of killings that have taken the lives of an estimated 7,000 Nigerian Christians so far this year. Since 2009, Islamists – including Boko Haram and outside terrorist groups such as ISIS...

Elizabeth Warren: Leftism For Thee But Not Me

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