Author: David Rutman

The city of Montreal is so broke that the mayor quipped recently that the “city’s credit card is maxxed out.” Meanwhile, the crises are proliferating, from a rise in poverty, crime and homelessness to decaying infrastructure, a lack of affordable housing and interminable waits for medical care. So, naturally, on Monday the city council will […]

Mark Ruffalo escalated his campaign against Paramount Skydance’s proposed $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery on Friday, accusing the Ellison family and Oracle of complicity in what he called a “genocide” in Gaza—and warning that the company’s technology could eventually be “used on you.” The actor shared a video of Oracle Executive Vice Chair […]

A confession: I often fall asleep in Shabbat services. I try not to, but the rhythmic cadence of the cantor’s voice, the warm light, and the exhaustion of a long week usually win. But at synagogue recently, I sat wide awake, unable to shake a strange idea out of my mind. Because it was a […]

In 1995, Muslim Brotherhood leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi addressed supporters in the Ohio with a prediction. The West, he stated, would not fall “through the sword” but would collapse under quiet Islamist infiltration. Through the patient, legal work of building influence inside a society’s institutions to undermine them – “we will conquer Europe, we will conquer […]

New York Magazine’s 31-page package on Arab and Muslim life in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s New York, branded “Habibi City” (published on August 10, 2026) has already drawn condemnation for the obvious reason: it frames Zionism, the belief that Jews have a right to sovereignty and self-determination in part of their indigenous homeland, as a species […]

Many elected officials, candidates, political analysts and podcast hosts affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America, and related far-leftist ilk, probably don’t kiss their mothers very often. I say this not only because their parents must be embarrassed that they raised kids so woefully ignorant of history, hateful of America and its freedoms, resentful of […]

For more articles from The Media Line, click here. Nikolai Mladenov’s newly announced Gaza agreement offers a rare glimmer of hope amid years of bloodshed and despair. At its core is a straightforward proposition: the phased disarmament of Hamas and other Palestinian terror organizations in exchange for the eventual withdrawal of Israeli forces from the […]

I read Elly Katz. I’ve published Elly Katz. But I’ve never met Elly Katz, so I never got to see her disability. Elly had Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), a rare connective tissue disorder that lacks a cure. What I knew very well about Elly was what she wrote. But those words, in an odd way, gave […]