College enrollments have dropped to lows not seen since the Great Recession. Higher education policy experts from the right-of-center think tank American Enterprise Institute have stated that the declining quality of education, degrees with low return on investment, and almost certain post-graduate student debt are at fault. GOP-led efforts might reverse the decline. Preston Cooper, AEI’s higher education […]
All these things can be true at the same time about ABC’s pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live! First, Kimmel is a dishonest hack who used his show to spread self-indulgent partisan dreck. Private companies, as leftists pointed out only a few years ago, have the option of “deplatforming” anyone they please. Kimmel has no God-given right […]
Just a few days after a supposed nationwide reckoning over the ramifications of political rhetoric, Democrats returned to their old inflammatory ways on Wednesday after bemoaning ABC’s decision to remove late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel from its network indefinitely for comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s assassination. ABC’s parent company is the Walt Disney […]
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced on Thursday that it will help support California’s redistricting ballot measure by directing their organizing team toward mobilization efforts ahead of the November election. The DNC said it will employ a 41,000-person volunteer team to encourage Californians to get involved in the election effort. These volunteers will be involved...
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Anna Gomez on Thursday said the Trump administration, via the FCC, is "weaponizing its licensing authority in order to bring broadcasters to heel." "I see this as a part of this administration's campaign of censorship and control," Gomez, who was appointed by former President Biden, said at the Axios Media...
Senate Republicans confirmed four dozen of President Trump’s nominees Thursday, the first tranche of his stalled choices to get over the finish line after the GOP changed the chamber’s rules last week to break a months-long blockade put up by the Democrats. After weeks of warnings, Republicans late last week pulled the trigger on the...
New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn expressed confidence the newspaper will defeat a defamation suit brought by President Trump this week. "He's wrong on the facts, he's wrong on the law. And we'll fight it and we'll win," Kahn said at an Axios Media Trends Live event on Thursday. Asked if The Times would...
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, wants Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to testify about the recent upheaval at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Cassidy invited Kennedy to respond to testimony presented this week by Susan Monarez, the agency’s...
The House on Thursday approved a Republican bill that seeks to deprioritize some renewable energy from getting onto the electric grid amid broader GOP attacks on green energy. The legislation, which passed 216-206, allows “dispatchable” energy to be prioritized amid the long line of projects that seek to get plugged into the nation’s electric grid....