I once served on the campus budget committee for a large public university. Over a dozen years, starting in the late 90s, I witnessed many changes in how the university operated. The biggest change was the surge in international students, especially those from China. Those students helped us balance our budgets, hire exceptional faculty, and […]
“President Trump is not going to do another ‘JCPOA’ with Iran. He’s simply not going to do a bad deal with the mullahs who have been trying to assassinate him for the past five years. It isn’t happening. Relax.” This is the refrain that people confident about the realism of President Donald Trump’s national security […]
The International Monetary Fund, the global lender of last resort for national governments, will meet on Friday to consider a new $1.3 billion loan to Pakistan under its Resilience and Sustainability Facility. The loan would be the 25th that the IMF has provided Pakistan, and it follows a $1.3 billion loan for climate change in […]
The arguments over the new pope are breaking down among the usual lines. The conservative side views the Catholic Church as a bulwark worshipping science, transgenderism, feminism, vulgar popular culture and other evils of modernism. It loves tradition and the Latin Mass. The “progressive” side wants to welcome immigrants, legal or not; deify the LGBT […]
During a blitz of interviews with the president’s favorite love-hate partner, the media, President Donald Trump offered one particular insight into the inner workings of his tariff strategy: The country’s millions of small businesses are not a priority. During an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, in addition to taking credit for […]
When the fitness influencer Kate Mackz uploaded her newest running-themed interview video, she had no idea she was about to become the internet’s latest punching bag. But Mackz had stepped into a minefield by doing something that in the ultraprogressive TikTok ecosystem is still unthinkable: humanizing a Trump administration official. For context, Mackz’s content is […]
Hours-long delays and cancellations at Newark Liberty International Airport are being addressed with a $15 billion framework to fast-track aviation infrastructure upgrades, while the FAA relies on outdated technology and the NOTAM system has failed twice in the past two months.
Pakistan on Wednesday called India’s overnight strikes an “unlawful act of war,” as tensions between the neighboring countries reached their highest point in decades. The latest force came amid fallout from an attack last month in India-controlled Kashmir, a region claimed by both countries. Pakistan’s National Security Committee (NSC) issued a statement Wednesday in which...