That Harvard University is standing by its beleaguered president, Claudine Gay, should not be a surprise: Gay is a perfect representation of the arrogant mediocrity of the university and its brand.
Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, on Nov. 24, The Seattle Times published an insightful op-ed by state Sen. Brad Hawkins, R-Wenatchee, Ranking Minority member of the Senate Early Learning and K-12 Committee. The Seattle Times maintains a Comments Section to “encourage constructive conversations about the facts in our articles.” The paper keeps the comments section open for 72 hours to allow this discussion.
Violent crime has plagued the country for several years. Many of the nation’s once heralded booming metropolitan areas have regressed into crime-ridden cesspools that more resemble dystopian horrors than cities in America.
Illinois has banned construction of new nuclear power plants for the past 36 years, since 1987. That’s a real predicament for a state that already relies heavily on that energy source for 53% of its electricity needs.
Across the country, land-use officials are grappling with chronic housing shortages — the result of longstanding legal and policy failures, including archaic zoning rules and ongoing labor and supply shortages. From Seattle to Key West, to Calabasas, there simply is not enough housing for the American people. Among the many potential solutions pro-housing advocates have proposed are so-called “build-to-rent” (BTR) developments — indistinguishable from traditional single-family tracts, except that their occupants are tenants instead of owners. That’s it.
Preparing for conflict, China continues to target U.S. critical infrastructure nodes as a key part of its vast cyber espionage campaign. Beijing is particularly interested in infrastructure that would support any U.S. war effort over Taiwan or in the South China Sea.
There is a clear and easy path for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to secure the votes he needs for another round of funding in his fight against the Russian invasion of his border: Convince President Joe Biden to admit he was wrong and reimplement former President Donald Trump’s popular and effective border policies in the United States.
When the Internal Revenue Service granted Californians an extension on 2022 taxes due to bad weather, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) was forced to guess how strong his state’s economy was and how much tax revenue the government would collect.
During last week’s House Education Committee hearing on campus antisemitism, college presidents like Harvard’s Claudine Gay used free speech grounds to defend anti-Israel protests...
