Iran is producing ballistic missiles armed with "chemical and biological capabilities" in preparation for a military confrontation with the United States and Israel, according to Israeli military adviser Amir Avivi, who told the Washington Free Beacon that such missiles must be "dealt with" in any strike on Iran.
Gavin Newsom, the California governor who is definitely running for president in 2028, has been denounced as racist after suggesting his lack of intelligence made it easier to relate to black people. "I'm like you," Newsom told Atlanta's black mayor, Andre Dickens, while adopting a bizarre MLK-style accent. "I'm... no... better... than... you. I'm a 960 SAT guy. Ha. And I'm not trying to offend anyone—you know, trying to act all there if you got 940. Haha."
Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez—whose Washington swing district makes her one of the most endangered members of Congress—has repeatedly claimed she was forced to work three jobs after her father cut her off financially because she stopped going to church. She says she struggled to pay her tuition at Reed College, a prestigious private institution in Portland, Ore., and resorted to unorthodox living arrangements to avoid paying rent.
What an end to the 2026 Olympic Games for Team USA. On the final day of competition in Milan, Italy, the Americans defeated the Canadians in an overtime, sudden-death, gold-medal game. Twenty-four-year-old Jack Hughes scored the winning goal. It was particularly sweet, and amazing, because in the third period he had his face bashed in so brutally that the Canadian thug who did it was assessed a double penalty.
Students at Sharif University of Technology chanted “Death to Khamenei” at Basij members who confronted them during a protest on Saturday, according to a video received by Iran International. https://t.co/JufZFCAIYM pic.twitter.com/qa66Tbj4CP
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) February 21, 2026
For historians of human enslavement—and for black Africans more generally—the recently concluded African Nations soccer cup revealed images of an ugliness that has roots in the Muslim world's trans-Saharan slave trade. As Senegal defeated host Morocco in the final, sections of the Moroccan crowd hurled racial insults at the Senegalese—just as Algerian spectators had, earlier in the tournament, when their team was beaten by Nigeria. "Get the black slave," affronted Algerian soccer fans chanted.
Scott Galloway can be annoying. In his book, Notes on Being a Man, he admits as much. A serial entrepreneur, popular podcast host, and marketing professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Galloway is also not especially humble, but age and the experience of raising two boys prompted him to revisit his own childhood and to consider what it means to be a man in the 21st century. The picture he paints is grim: He sees "a generation of young men from all backgrounds who are (a) unbearably lonely, (b) not economically viable, (c) not emotionally viable, and (d) basically adrift."
This book explores not death itself, but what remains after it: the human body. For most species, the dead simply decay where they fall. Humans, however, have long venerated their deceased, which explains the visceral disgust evoked by acts like body desecration, grave robbing, or unauthorized dissection. The book’s title nods to the "Doctors’ Riot" of 1788, a violent uprising in New York City triggered when teenage boys spotted a dissected arm dangling from a window at what would become Columbia University’s medical school. An enraged mob stormed the school and hospital, forcing doctors and staff to flee and hide in a nearby prison for safety. Order was restored only through the intervention of prominent figures like Alexander Hamilton and John Jay.
Brian Raftery's investigation of the serial killer, cannibal, gourmand, and pop cultural icon Hannibal Lecter is a very good book that sounds as if it should be a very bad one. When I first heard that Raftery, a respected entertainment journalist, was writing what purported to be a biography of Lecter, I both groaned and wondered about copyright law. After all, Lecter's creator Thomas Harris is still alive, and the four novels he has written that feature the character—Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, and Hannibal Rising—remain perennially popular, selling tens of thousands of copies a year in the United States alone. Was Hannibal Lecter: A Life going to be some accursed piece of fan fiction, unaccountably published by a major house and leading the opportunistic Raftery to deserve a visit from a hungry, understandably aggrieved Dr. Lecter some dark and stormy night?
Tomorrow marks the end of one of the great seasons in sports, one that only comes every four years. Two weekends ago, the Winter Olympics opened in northern Italy just before Super Bowl Sunday. The closing ceremony occurs tomorrow.
A judge has authorized police to begin evicting residents of the Prince George’s County, Md., condominium complex besieged by an open air drug market, putting hundreds of people at risk of homelessness ahead of a possible winter storm.
Maryland district court judge Bryon Bereano had provisionally greenlit the Marylander Condominiums evictions earlier this month after vagrants allegedly vandalized the condo’s boiler room, leaving 100 units without heat. On Thursday he signed a final order authorizing "all action necessary" to vacate those units, which were deemed "unfit for human habitation" by the county’s Department of Permitting, Inspections, and Enforcement in December.
Ian Sams may finally have some competition for the title of worst Democratic aide of the 21st century. The notoriously incompetent communications adviser has fallen off the radar after guiding Kamala Harris to a tremendous defeat in 2024. Sams has been "self-employed" ever since.
