Yossi Sheffi is the author of this intensely disturbing book about the experience of American and Israeli Jews on campus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre. Sheffi holds an endowed chair in engineering systems at MIT and is a member of the faculty in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, and the Operations Research Center. He is a leading expert in supply chain management and the author of nine books in his areas of professional expertise. He has been a member of the MIT faculty for almost 50 years.

The tiny island nation of Taiwan finds itself at the center of a potential great power war between the United States and China. Such a conflict would be devastating beyond measure. But as Eyck Freymann argues in his new book Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China, the conquest of Taiwan might not unfold as we'd expect.

Before shooting up Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015, Dylann Roof "spent months visiting local museums and plantations and churches, including Mother Emanuel," Beverly Gage writes in This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History. "When the police arrived, his car was strewn with travel brochures."

Were you a Ferris or a Lucas? Did you have it all figured out in high school, like the eponymous trickster from 40 summers ago? Could you hoodwink your parents, fool your school, and charm (or manipulate) your friends so you could live a carefree, adventurous life? Or were you more like the title character from Lucas, the less-remembered high school movie, also set in the Chicago suburbs, released just a few months earlier: a peculiar kid with weird pastimes, the target of bullies, the lovelorn loser stuck in the friendzone?

A Queens man who was indicted for manslaughter late last month after killing a woman in a three-car crash and then fleeing the scene was also charged with hate crimes yesterday for allegedly destroying property outside a kosher bagel shop just days before the crash.

In the United States, the democratic socialists and the Hamas sympathizers often march arm in arm. Abroad, news that China is exporting surface-to-air missiles to Iran reveals the extent of the alliance between Islamists and the Chinese Communist Party. The domestic red-green alliance threatens to immiserate a generation of Americans. The international variant could also do the same.

Influential Detroit pastor and radio host Horace Sheffield III enthusiastically endorsed Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed during a radio interview last week, urging listeners to make "5 and 10 phone calls" to help propel the left-wing Democrat to victory. Unmentioned in the glowing interview was that El-Sayed's campaign has paid tens of thousands of dollars to Sheffield's nonprofit organization.

A bipartisan group of senators is introducing new federal legislation to ban universities from giving admissions preferences to children of alumni or donors.

Call it pleading the thrift.

Hunter Biden claimed under oath earlier this year that he's so broke he doesn't even own a car or a cellphone, and said his family is too strapped for cash to help him pay off millions in unpaid legal bills.

During a March 2025 stop on socialist senator Bernie Sanders's "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said President Donald Trump's "deplorable and disgusting" tax cuts benefited "folks who don't really need more money." Months later, he claimed a $26,000 income deduction that was created as a part of that legislation, records show.

Multiple U.N. relief agencies continue to stonewall a U.S. probe into their ties to Hamas, withholding key documents and other information that could reveal their employees as affiliates of the terror group, according to U.S. officials and diplomats briefed on the matter.

The Democratic nominee in Colorado's competitive Eighth Congressional District, Manny Rutinel, sponsored legislation requiring health insurers to cover "gender-affirming health care," including sex changes—with no age restrictions.