EXCLUSIVE — The Department of Education has opened investigations into 45 colleges, including some of the nation’s most prestigious institutions, over their alleged refusal to end racial preferences in PhD programming. According to federal education officials, the schools may be violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by partnering with “The PhD Project,” an […]
LEESBURG, Virginia — House Democrats are in a messaging rut. They are ridiculed for social media posts, blasted as a party in “disarray,” and are having a difficult time unifying behind a message to connect with working-class voters. But some Democrats think they may be shooting themselves in the foot with “theatrics” as others brush […]
Consumers have benefited from falling gas prices in the country recently. After several tumultuous weeks in February, when a rise in gas prices coincided with talks of President Donald Trump issuing tariffs on the nation’s North American neighbors, fuel costs have continued to trend downward for most of March. On Friday, the national average price […]
“Rick Perry’s Strange Sex Story” was the New York Times headline. The columnist, Gail Collins, said Perry further proved he was “an absolutely terrible secretary of energy” by arguing “that fossil fuels would protect women from sexual assault.” Perry, a conservative Republican from Texas, was an official in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet during his first […]
President Donald Trump has made no secret of his ambition to annex Greenland while leading an administration that’s only the latest in a long list that wanted to do just that. To wit, in 1868, then-Secretary of State William Seward proposed acquiring the world’s largest island, by far, from Denmark to help “command the commerce […]
It’s election night 2008, and President-elect Barack Obama is speaking before a celebrating crowd. In a flag-waving throng at Chicago‘s Grant Park, with the happy Democrats holding up the winner’s iconic “Hope” poster, some progressive devotees openly weep while others gaze up at the podium in elysian rapture. Jump ahead to July 13, 2024, in […]
President Donald Trump has had enough of federal district court judges issuing sweeping blockades against his second-term agenda. Legal battles over the Trump administration‘s executive actions have repeatedly played out in strategically chosen courts, where judges have issued nationwide injunctions against several of his key policies. The Trump Department of Justice took precise aim against nationwide injunctions on […]
When Democrats say they need a generational change in their party’s leadership, they usually aren’t referring to former President Barack Obama. Although the 63-year-old has been out of the White House for eight years, he retains his grip on the Democratic imagination. Perhaps last year loosened it some, however. Obama took it upon himself to […]
Democrats are hoping to fill the vacuum left by Republicans‘ decision to avoid town halls, planning events across the country that highlight the Trump administration’s layoffs and federal funding cuts. Last month, the campaign arm for House Republicans urged members not to hold in-person events in their districts after blowback over President Donald Trump’s Department […]
More than any president in memory, Donald Trump is attuned to aesthetics. This should scarcely come as a surprise, given that Trump is our first builder-turned-president. In his previous vocation as a real estate developer, Trump became familiar with the things that make a building more than merely functional but surpassingly beautiful. One senses that […]
