On Sunday Israel celebrates “Jerusalem Day,” the anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem during the Six Day War in 1967….

Near the beginning of Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg’s “Weiner,” one of the film-makers asks their subject, the allegedly “disgraced” ex-congressman Anthony Weiner who, in 2013, decided to run for mayor of New York City, if his wife, Huma Abedin, had wanted him to get back into politics. He says that she did because “She was very eager to get her life back that I had taken from her.” Or, as one enthusiastic critic summed it up: Ms. Abedin was “a fellow political animal who felt, as he did, that another race would be the only way their lives could return to normal.” There, in a nutshell, lies the essential phoniness at the heart of this film.

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Ken Livingstone, the former London Mayor and Labour MP, who was suspended by the Labour Party for claiming that Hitler…

Over at Mediaite, Rachel Stockman tells people to get off their high horse regarding Katie Couric’s lies regarding her gun…

The Supreme Court recently stepped back from its campaign to impose its political preferences on the states. In Evenwel v….

Sacramento I have a simple observation after years of writing about local-development issues: Whenever civic boosters talk about creating a…