In a week of surprises, California’s rejection of a ballot measure that would have allowed the state to resume its affirmative action program was among the most significant. 
We know now that the New York Times's letter to its readers in the wake of President Donald Trump's surprise 2016 victory was a non-apology apology. 
We now have it in writing: Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-Semite. 
The city of Philadelphia is enduring another wave of rioting and looting, as roving mobs hurling rocks, bricks, and trash cans have injured 30 police officers. The National Guard has been mobilized to quell the lawlessness. 
With time waning before the November election, politicians are being judicious in the use of their time. 
If you needed evidence that "Russian disinformation" has become a catchall term for anything that undermines the Democratic Party's electoral prospects, look no further than the response of top party apparatchiks and the mainstream media to last week's New York Post expose on Hunter Biden. 
Europe has now surpassed the United States in daily coronavirus cases. That presents a challenge for the Democratic politicians and left-wing commentators who have, for the past several months, made unfavorable comparisons between the United States and Europe yet another arrow in their quiver to shoot at President Donald Trump and to illustrate the alleged superiority of European governance, health care systems, and social cohesion. 
It is a mark of how dirty Senate Democrats have played over the past four years that they and their allies have been so little criticized for their treatment of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. 
Democrats, their media friends want us to know, are furious. If Republicans exercise their constitutional prerogative and fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat on the Supreme Court, the Democrats are prepared to burn it all down. 
When Avi Berkowitz was elevated to a top negotiating position on President Donald Trump's Middle East peace team, the appointment of the 29-year-old was met with near-universal derision by so-called experts and the mainstream press. 