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Trump congratulates new Attorney General Pam Bondi, predicts ‘consequential’ tenure at DOJ

President Trump on Wednesday congratulated Pam Bondi on her confirmation as U.S. attorney general and predicted she would be a history-making leader at the Department of Justice.

Ignore Trump’s Gaza distraction. Focus on Iran

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Donald Trump, the first post-inaugural White House visit by a foreign leader, could shape the Middle East for generations. Pre-meeting speculation centered on how the leaders would handle the Hamas-Israel war. Stunningly, Trump’s comments just before and then after his meeting with Netanyahu focused on the U.S. taking […]

Universities need more change than neutrality

Institutional neutrality policies, such as those adopted by Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania, are good steps for hyperpoliticized universities. They also could prove entirely inconsequential. Each school has published a statement of its own explaining the policy and what it aims to accomplish. Universities taking official positions on sociopolitical events has become commonplace […]

How Trump and DOGE should reform the Social Security Administration

As President Donald Trump and his administration look to reduce wasteful government spending and improve federal government productivity, they can find low-hanging fruit at the Social Security Administration. In particular, the administration should undo Biden-era regulations that unnecessarily bloated spending on welfare and disability benefits.  The president, working with the technology experts at Elon Musk’s Department […]

Texas Dem says he’ll bring articles of impeachment against Trump over Gaza

Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green said Wednesday he plans to bring articles of impeachment against President Trump after he suggested the U.S. should take over Gaza. “The movement to impeach the president has begun,” Green said on the House floor. “I rise to announce that I will bring Articles of Impeachment against the president for...

Trump’s call to ‘clean out’ Gaza is a direct threat to Palestinians 

Peace will come only as a result of the Palestinian people being free from Israeli military rule and apartheid policies, and Palestinian refugees being allowed to return to the homes from which Israel exiled them more than 75 years ago.   

CIA offers buyouts to employees: Reports

The CIA has offered buyouts to employees, according to multiple reports. Eight months’ pay and benefits can be given to agency workers if they leave their roles, employees were informed by the CIA, according to The Wall Street Journal, who reported on the matter first. Officials told the Journal that priorities from President Trump were behind...

Judge cements block on Trump’s order restricting birthright citizenship

A federal judge Wednesday furthered a block of President Trump’s executive order preventing the children of undocumented migrants from receiving birthright citizenship.  U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman at the conclusion of a hearing in Greenbelt, Md., said that Trump’s order “runs counter to our nation’s 250-year history of citizenship by birth” and likely violates an...

Rand Paul knocks Trump Gaza takeover plan: ‘I thought we voted for America First’

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday slammed President Trump’s proposal to seize control of Gaza, send in U.S. troops if necessary and turn it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” “The pursuit for peace should be that of the Israelis and the Palestinians. I thought we voted for America First. We have no business...

Zelensky accuses Tucker Carlson of ‘working for Putin’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky took a shot at conservative commentator Tucker Carlson and accused him of promoting the Kremlin's talking points. "It seems to me that to this journalist, I do not remember his surname. Excuse me, Tucker. Yes, Tucker, his name, but it seems to me he needs to more deeply understand what’s happening in...

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