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How badly do Republican voters want to lose?

The question being posed to GOP voters ahead of the 2024 election has been, remains, and will continue to be a simple one: How badly do you want to lose another presidential election?

COVID relief for K-12 schools was misspent, but nobody seems to care

Disastrous National Assessment of Educational Progress test scores were released last week. The New York Times reports that the “last time math performance was this low for 13-year-olds was in 1990. In reading, 2004.”

Five Supreme Court decisions to watch

The Supreme Court is set to release its next opinions on Tuesday morning, with several landmark cases still to be handed down with just days left until the summer recess. The court did not indicate Tuesday will be the final decision day, meaning that at least one additional day is likely later in the week....

Death of Texas airport worker ‘ingested’ into plane engine ruled a suicide

Federal authorities have determined they will not launch an investigation into the death of a ground crew member that was "ingested" into a plane's engine last week.

Walensky’s advice to next CDC director: ‘Keep your head down’

Rochelle Walensky, the outgoing director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), advised her soon-to-be successor Mandy Cohen to "keep your head down" as she prepares to assume the new role next month. Walensky offered the guidance in an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published on Monday. Given the fraught political pushback Walensky...

When it comes to reforming the House of Representatives, it’s time to think bigger

Recently, Professor Danielle Allen has written a series of columns exploring what would happen if we increased the size of the House of Representatives. After years of postponing the necessary maintenance, Allen asks us to consider our Founding Fathers’ vision of the People’s House as a body that would grow with the population of the...

New York is latest ‘safe haven’ for gender-affirming care

New York on Sunday became the latest in a growing list of states to pass legislation protecting access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors as more than a dozen other state governments have moved to ban treatments including puberty blockers and hormone therapy. New York’s new “safe haven” law bars state courts from enforcing the laws...

Buffalo Bills player cancels event at Trump golf course, citing ‘external pressures’

Buffalo Bills safety Jordan Poyer canceled his charity event at a golf course owned by former President Trump due to “external pressures” on participants and the event's beneficiary.  In an Instagram post on Saturday, Poyer shared he had to cancel his annual charity event at the Blue Monster at Trump National in Doral, Florida, due...

Lawmakers push major banking reforms following near collapse of financial sector

Democrats are pushing to reform the deposit insurance system following massive bank failures that nearly tanked the economy earlier this year. After the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank and First Republic Bank, whose uninsured deposits all ended up being insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Democrats are echoing the call...

Congress limits ChatGPT use in offices

The House is limiting the usage of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot that has skyrocketed in popularity since debuting in November, over privacy concerns. Representatives are only authorized to use the ChatGPT Plus version, which has built-in privacy features that are "necessary for House data," reads a notice sent by Chief Administrative Officer Catherine L....

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