y son returned home from sleepaway camp this summer with a stomachache. When it didn’t quickly abate, I took him to a pediatric urgent care clinic, where a doctor ruled out appendicitis. “Probably just dehydration,” came the verdict. But before the doctor cleared us to go home, he asked us to wait for the nurse, […]
The How and Why of Generations In the Bay of Bengal between India and Myanmar lies North Sentinel, an island about the size of Manhattan. In 2018, a 26-year-old American paid a group of fishermen to take him there. He was never seen again. North Sentinel is the home of one of the last groups […]
It was every father’s nightmare. Your fourteen-year-old daughter, your little girl, being sexually assaulted at school. In the girls’ bathroom. By a boy wearing a skirt. Horrific. But in any sane environment, the consequences would have been swift. The boy would have been prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned. The criminal justice system would have worked, if […]
I know so many of you are deeply missing your friend on the radio, the unwavering, optimistic voice of Rush. There are no words to fill the void—he is simply irreplaceable. However, I hope this look back at Rush’s extraordinary life will make you smile, remembering the special moments you shared. Rush loved this country—and […]
s a journalist, I have written books and lengthy magazine stories about the Republican Party for over two decades. Though I’ve done my best not to shade these accounts, I must confess that they’ve tended to bear the telltale influence of my father, a lifelong Republican. At his best, Bob Draper epitomized the GOP’s best. […]
“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.” —Barack Obama (reportedly) Underpromise. Overdeliver. It’s the number one rule in politics and sales and buying a wedding ring. Joseph R. Biden Jr. has never embraced this simple rule. “If you hear nothing else I say tonight, hear this. ANYONE that is responsible for that many deaths […]
Nelson Rockefeller stared into a sea of hate. Standing at the podium of the Republican National Convention of 1964, the fifty-six-year-old patrician politician who symbolized dynastic American power and wealth was enveloped by waves of anger emanating from the party faithful. Delegates and activists assembled in the Cow Palace on the outskirts of San Francisco […]
I have written this book because I am convinced the American Church is at an impossibly—and almost unbearably—important inflection point. The parallels to where the German Church was in the 1930s are unavoidable and grim. So the only question—and what concerns us in this slim volume—is whether we might understand those parallels, and thereby avoid […]
Icould not have remained in this fight if not for the unwavering support of my family through the years. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. I love you. I would like to thank all our predecessors in this timeless struggle for human liberty. We are all indebted to those who came before us, […]
I FIRST MET JERRY CORSI back in 2004, and I was immediately struck by how he was a focused and prodigious investigative journalist. Corsi cited my investigative reporting on John Kerry’s military service during the Vietnam War in his 2004 NYT bestseller with John O’Neill: Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak out Against John […]
WHY SHOULD I? The Senate chamber was so much smaller than I remembered. I had tried an impeachment case against a federal judge ten years earlier and hadn’t been on the Senate floor since. In the House, I could see members on the other side of the chamber, but only dimly, their faces indistinct in […]
You aren’t born knowing you will die. Someone has to break the news. I asked my dad if it was him, but he can’t remember. Some people remember being told: they have a moment they can pinpoint where life cleaved into before and after. They can remember the sound of a bird hitting the window, […]