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Last Tuesday, thousands of Israelis took to the streets, blocking highways and setting tires on fire, to pressure the government to reach a deal with Hamas. Article content Einav Zangauker, whose son has been languishing in Hamas captivity, made a passionate plea for more Israelis to join the demonstrations, arguing that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “afraid of one thing — public pressure,” and that, “Only with our strength can we bring about a comprehensive agreement and an end to the war.”

I spent Father’s Day weekend in Hood River, Oregon, and stumbled upon the local “No Kings” anti-Trump protest. The crowd was populated mostly by Baby Boomers, who appeared to be living out a political fantasy, in which they could “stop fascism” by reenacting the protest movements of their youth. One sign, typical of the genre, derided Trump as a “felon, rapist, con man”; another riffed on Mary Poppins, reading “super callous, fragile, racist, sexist, Nazi POTUS.”

Eighty years ago, the U.S. government launched a war bond campaign featuring a painting by artist Norman Rockwell in the struggle against the authoritarian threat from Europe. The picture they chose was Rockwell’s Freedom of Speech depicting a man rising to speak his mind at a local council meeting in Vermont. The image rallied the nation around what Louis Brandeis called our “indispensable right.”

A massive bail bond scheme led to the indictment of 53 Houston-area residents on Wednesday, with 50 in custody and three still wanted by the Houston FBI.

It’s still too soon to make the definitive historical assessment of the Iraq War, the good, the bad, and the ugly — even assuming such a thing is even possible. But it’s never too soon to correct the historical revisionism that’s taken place in recent years.

The inclusiveness experts can go. The wellness coaches can clear their desks. The diversity monitors won’t be needed any more, nor the human rights experts. And the corporate philosophy unit can obviously be axed, on the grounds that its staff should at least know how to take the news stoically.

The world’s most powerful bookseller uses its muscle to push down the prices it pays publishers. In turn, the publishing industry consolidates into a handful of supercompanies that leverage their dominant positions to more than halve the advances they pay authors.

The twentieth century is now well and truly over. The death of the Queen who presided over the second half of it may come to represent a critical point in history: the moment when what will be understood historically as a golden age of confidence and prosperity came to an end. After the terrible ideological wars of its first four decades, that century somehow reinvented itself as a time of quite extraordinary progress. It was as if the world – having been engulfed twice by horror and unprecedented mass murder – had made a vow to atone.

Omicron is up to 70 per cent less likely to cause hospitalisations but is better at evading booster jabs, government analysis has shown. UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) also found that people infected with the new variant were 45 per cent less likely to turn up to A&E. The official analysis confirms the findings of two independent studies published on Wednesday, which also used real world data to paint a less gloomy picture of the Christmas wave.

Several dinosaur statues that went missing from a Central Texas museum have been found thanks to an observant partygoer.

Donald Trump was sympathetic to the theory. So was his former chief strategist Steve Bannon, and probably that weird guy you just blocked on Facebook as well. The "Wuhan lab leak" story started as just another of the mad theories circulating on the internet.

When a British police commissioner publicly threatens to invade people’s homes at Christmas to break up “illegal” family gatherings, you know that you have entered a new political landscape. At least, new for modern liberal democracies. That sort of edict would scarcely have been noticed in the totalitarian states of the old Soviet bloc, or in the distant darker periods of Western history. How in the name of God, have we got here?