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It is hard to destroy your own cause and feel righteous while doing so, yet the American left has done it. After more than two centuries at the vanguard of the struggle for freedom, the American left, broadly defined, executed a volte face and embraced anti-working-class policies marketed as purely technical public health measures. For two years the left has championed policies of surveillance and exclusion in the form of: punitive vaccine mandates, invasive vaccine passports, socially destructive lockdowns, and radically unaccountable censorship by large media and technology corporations. For the entire pandemic, leftists and liberals – call them the...

For the first time in a generation one of the world's most elite clubs met yesterday: all the former living US presidents, together with Barack Obama, the man soon to join them as the Oval Office's next occupant. The idea, first hatched by Mr Obama during a meeting with President Bush last month, saw the outgoing and incoming commander-in-chief line up before the cameras with Jimmy Carter, George Bush Senior and Bill Clinton, before a private lunch...

A Los Angeles County assistant fire chief charged with felony animal cruelty for allegedly beating a 6-month-old puppy on the head with a rock said today that he acted in self-defense after the animal bit his thumb with what he called a “vise-like grip.” ...