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Laura Beers

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during the daily press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on September 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Karoline Leavitt’s White House briefing doublethink is straight out of Orwell’s “1984”

Laura Beers
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds her first news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on January 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Karoline Leavitt’s White House doublethink is straight out of Orwell

Laura Beers
Queen Elizabeth II and Boris Johnson (Getty/Pool/Alastair Grant)

Why the queen said yes to Boris Johnson’s request to suspend Parliament

Laura Beers