Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith is taking on a new role in Democratic politics as the party searches for its identity after its loss to President Trump in November. Smith expressed interest in politics well before Election Day but has been particularly critical of the party following Trump’s victory, calling on it to refocus on...
The Trump administration's decision to end almost all foreign aid spending from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is poised to plunge global health into chaos. The contract terminations announced Wednesday will end grants for HIV treatments and prevention, tuberculosis, polio, malaria, Ebola and numerous other diseases and conditions. Nutrition assistance programs for...
Cuts to the Department of Education are hitting the highly valued Nation’s Report Card even as sirens blare on student test scores. The 12th grade National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) was recently canceled, and the top official in charge of it was put on leave, leading advocates to doubt a promise from the Department...
President Trump took executive action to make English the official language of the United States, marking the first time in American history that the country will have an official language.
Still reeling from the breakneck pace and audacity of President Donald Trump’s first two weeks in office, the New Republic‘s Michael Tomasky made an intriguing comparison. “Trump 1.0,” he observed, “was a Jackson Pollock—splat splat all over the place. Trump 2.0 is painting within very precise lines. It’s terrifying.” Tomasky was right. In his first […]
Competing rulings from federal court jurisdictions could tee up the Supreme Court to make its own ruling on whether young people under 21 can legally purchase handguns, something that has been illegal at the federal level for many decades.
With the 97th Academy Awards set for Sunday, expect the annual avalanche of anti-woke missives. This year’s batch is sure to be laced with glee in light of President Donald Trump’s decisive victory in November. Conservative commentators, many of whom made their names ridiculing woke absurdities, will do a Gene Kelly impersonation over Hollywood’s grave. […]
Before meeting Trump, Zelensky met with anti-Trump Democrats who advised him to reject the terms of the mineral deal the president was offering, according...