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Columbia University says it expelled some students who seized building last year

Columbia University says it has expelled or suspended some students who took over a campus building during pro-Palestinian protests last spring, and had temporarily revoked the diplomas of some students who have since graduated.

Senate Democrats lean toward shutdown as ‘least worst outcome’ in funding fight

Senate Democrats say they are not eager to shut down the government but believe voting against a Republican stopgap bill is their only way to stand up to President Trump and his cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency.

Unforeseen dangers

They say joining the military is life-changing, and from everything I’ve experienced and heard from others, I believe that to be true. I recently spoke with former Navy Lt. David Pingenot, whom I knew when I was growing up in Iowa, and I was interested to learn that enlisting in the Navy changed his life, […]

Top-shelf clothes

Last month I spent nearly $200 getting a stack of old trousers taken in at the waist. I had been keeping them folded up on a top shelf in a closet, in a kind of Carbohydrate Lover’s Strategic Reserve, because I know from past behavior that just because they’re too big for me now, there’s […]

American interests in Ukraine

The Ukraine war is like a Russian doll. A series of five increasingly complex geopolitical questions encases a solid core of historical conflict. That core issue is whether Ukraine should be independent of Russia or whether, as often in its history, it falls so far within Russia’s sphere of interest that it becomes a second […]

Bong Joon-ho’s disposable humanity

I have seen my share of action movies, monster movies, and, to my chagrin, horror movies, but seldom have I seen a movie that treated the human body so callously, so coldly, or so cavalierly as Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17. In his first outing behind the camera since 2019’s Oscar-winning sensation Parasite, Bong has made […]

Trump’s aggression against Canada disgraces America

This is a painful column to write. All my life, I have seen the United States as the repository of mankind’s loftiest hopes and ambitions, the nation that would place its flag on Mars as surely as it did on the moon. Even when the U.S. clashed with my British homeland, as when American troops […]

House Democrats bash Senate colleagues for backing GOP spending bill: ‘Huge slap in the face’ 

House Democrats are furious at their fellow Democrats in the Senate for supporting a Republican spending bill, saying Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other aisle-hopping senators are set to empower President Trump to gut the government at the expense of their own constituents. “There is a deep sense of outrage and betrayal,” Rep. Alexandria...

60 percent of voters unhappy with DOGE handling of federal workers: Poll

A majority of voters are unhappy with the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) handling of federal workers, according to a new poll. When asked about “the way Elon Musk and DOGE are dealing with workers employed by the federal government,” 60 percent of respondents in the Quinnipiac University poll of registered voters said they are...

Trump meets with Michigan governor to discuss jobs

President Trump met with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) on Thursday at the White House for what the Democratic governor described as a “productive meeting.” “I had a productive meeting at the White House today with President Trump where we discussed bringing good paying jobs to Michigan,” Whitmer told NewsNation. “We also discussed tariffs, the...

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