When I brought my then five-month-old son, Hodge, to the House floor during the vote for Speaker in January, I didn’t think twice about carrying him on my chest to soothe him and introduce him for the first time to my colleagues. But within minutes, my phone was dinging nonstop with people excited to see...
Most of former President Trump’s rivals for the GOP nomination have taken a cautious path in responding to his indictment — but some veterans of his administration have taken a far more assertive stance. Bill Barr, who served as Trump’s attorney general, said that Trump would be “toast” if “even half” of the behavior alleged...
As the generative artificial intelligence (AI) industry booms, the 2024 election cycle is shaping up to be a watershed moment for the technology's role in political campaigns. The proliferation of AI — a technology that can create text, image and video — raises concerns about the spread of misinformation and how voters will react to...
Juneteenth is facing new challenges as it marks its second federal birthday on Monday in the form of both political attacks on the need to understand Black history and diversity, and the mixed emotions of becoming a more commercial holiday. Over the last three years, policymakers in 45 states have proposed 283 laws restricting what...
Colleges are seeing a surge in technology majors, but rural students are lagging behind on opportunities to take advantage of the growing, high-paying fields. From 2018 to 2022, “Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services” majors increased 23 percent, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, from 423,315 to 518,844. Rural students, however, face...
As Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard Reeves tells it, we now live in “a world where mothers don’t need men.” Almost 40% of births take place outside marriage, up from 5% in 1960. Reeves would like you to believe these are “marvelous developments.”
George Conway, a conservative attorney and prominent critic of former President Trump, said on Saturday that he thinks there is a “substantial possibility” Trump will go to jail. “I think there is a substantial possibility that he goes to jail," Conway said on CNN. "I think that he is going to be found guilty of...
Former President Trump claimed on Saturday that President Biden pushed the Justice Department to bring a “fake indictment" against him over his handling of classified materials. “Crooked Joe Biden pressed deranged Jack Smith to do this fake indictment on me,” Trump said in a video posted to Truth Social, alleging that the president is using...