President Trump said Monday that states are already starting to take charge of education, after he signed an executive order last week dismantling the federal Department of Education.
An international student at Cornell University involved in pro-Palestinian protests has been asked to surrender to immigration authorities as he seeks to block deportation actions by the Trump administration.
An appeals court judge blasted the Trump administration on Monday for giving Venezuelan gang suspects fewer rights than Nazis had in defending themselves against emergency deportations.
New York City’s Ivy League campus, Columbia University, has become a place where Jewish students are not welcome. It’s time for the leadership of Columbia and its sister school, Barnard College, to step up and protect all of their students by providing severe discipline for lawbreakers and structural reforms to ensure they cannot run rampant […]
While Democrats are in the midst of an identity crisis with no real leader for the party, the first new “rising star” of the second Trump era is hitting the stage in New York City. Zohran Mamdani, a New York assemblyman running for mayor of New York City, is the subject of the newest Democratic […]
Democrats are seeing signs of growing energy on the grassroots level, raising questions about the possibility of a Tea Party-style movement from the party’s progressive flank. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) drew tens of thousands on stops for their “Fighting Oligarchy Tour” over the weekend, illustrating what progressives say is their...
Sen. Ron Wyden (R-Ore.) on Monday said Democrats shouldn’t help Republicans tackle the debt ceiling this Congress, after a recent forecast warned the government was at risk of defaulting during the summer. “The economic agenda for Trump and Republicans is about running up the debt and inflicting pain on working families to make billionaires like...
Columbia University student Yunseo Chung is suing the Trump administration amid its efforts to deport the 21-year-old, who has been in the U.S. since she was 7 and has lawful permanent resident status. A lawsuit was filed Monday after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) got an administrative warrant for Chung's arrest and told the...
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg slammed Trump administration officials for reportedly discussing plans for an attack against Houthi rebels in Yemen on a text chain that inadvertently included The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg. “From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of f‑‑‑up imaginable,” Buttigieg, a Navy veteran, wrote in a post on...