It may seem euphemistic to describe President Donald Trump’s second inaugural address as “uncompromising.” It will have struck many as merely crude and characteristically unpleasant. Hard-hitting, it certainly was. Trump portrayed the past four years as marked by “horrible betrayal,” “vicious weaponization,” and a “corrupt establishment.” But it is simplistic to think the moment at […]
President Donald Trump has returned to the White House with a long national security to-do list. It starts with shoring up the U.S.-Mexico border while ridding the nation of criminal migrants who entered in significant numbers under former President Joe Biden. But Trump’s second term has no time to waste on more traditional matters of […]
President Trump criticized former President Biden for pardoning several members of his family during his last moments as commander in chief, with Trump arguing the actions make “him look very guilty.” "That makes him look very guilty," Trump said while speaking to reporters late Monday in the Oval Office as he signed a number of...
We need to think creatively about threats to open inquiry and ways to preserve and enhance free expression on campus. Reiterating well-worn attacks on DEI will not help in that effort.
President Trump announced the firing of four high-profile presidential appointees just after midnight on Tuesday, including a top envoy to Iran during his first term and retired Gen. Mark Milley, who Trump tapped as Joint Chiefs chairman in 2018. Trump wrote on Truth Social that fired celebrity chef and humanitarian José Andrés from the President’s...
