The anti-charter school activist group Network for Public Education recently released a report on the classical charter school movement. Its findings have all the simplicity ridiculed in Orwell’s Animal Farm: “Four legs good, two legs bad.” In the case of the NPE report, this would be: “Progressive education good, anything else bad.”
Republicans in the House of Representatives last week voted to accept a new budget bill that calls for an increase in spending for veterans and related programs. The bill also calls for a ban on abortions at Veterans Affairs medical centers. According to congressional Democrats, this is extreme. In the post-Roe era, it is anything but.
Six people were killed and dozens were left injured after multiple mass shootings broke out across the country over the holiday weekend. The string of mass shootings over the weekend follows an increase of of firearm homicides that spiked during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. While most of the shootings had less than...
China rejected a U.S. offer to set up a direct military line of communication between Washington and Beijing that is a priority goal for the Biden administration, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday. Blinken's remarks came at a press conference shortly after he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, a rare exception to...
Right now, a good chunk of the country is asking itself whether we really want to throw a former president of the United States in jail — for what well may be the rest of his life — for a crime that is not only victimless, but also apparently commonplace among and seldom enforced against former officeholders.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese President Xi Jinping Monday in an effort to stabilize the relationship between Washington and Beijing. Blinken kicked off meetings in China during his high-stakes trip to the country Sunday amid rising tensions between the two countries. Ahead of their meeting Monday, Xi said “progress” has been made...
Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team have compiled what appears to be an ironclad case against former President Donald Trump alleging his willful disregard for the law and procedures regarding the disposition of highly classified material. Wrongful disclosure of top-secret material is defined as doing “exceptionally grave damage” to U.S. national security and can lead to up to...
You'd hardly know that the threats came from people claiming to be upset about the removal of Pride Month merchandise, not from conservatives upset about transgender swimwear for children.
Editor’s note: The Hill’s Morning Report is our daily newsletter that dives deep into Washington’s agenda. To subscribe, click here or fill out the box below. Congress is back in Washington this week, and House GOP leaders are facing an all-too-familiar problem: quelling the conservative angst that’s threatening to derail their legislative agenda heading into...
Triple-digit temperatures prompted more heat advisories across much of the southern U.S. on Sunday, triggered severe thunderstorms that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people, and produced gusty winds that raised wildfire threats.