Why was America in the Revolutionary War era, with 3 million people, able to generate leaders of the quality of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, while today’s America, with 333 million people, generates the likes of Joe Biden and Donald Trump? That’s a question I keep asking, as I alternate between writing about current affairs […]
A school in northwest London might seem to have little bearing on our culture wars in the United States. But the nature of the Michaela Community School, located in the unfashionable district of Wembley, and of a lawsuit it won this month in Britain’s High Court offer lessons for other countries struggling to accommodate large […]
A quartet of Columbia University officials largely avoided a viral breakout moment in a Wednesday House hearing on antisemitism, but still struggled in multiple areas when they were peppered with questions from Republican lawmakers. The viral question that last year stumped the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute...
Americans' confidence in the U.S. military dipped last year, losing its top spot among the other Group of Seven (G7) countries, according to a new Gallup poll. American's confidence in the U.S. military dipped to 81 percent in 2023, down 5 points from 2022, when confidence stood at 86 percent. That's according to a new...
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) joined a resolution from Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) that aims to overturn a new rule on climate disclosures approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last month. Manchin, the chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, joined with 32 Republican senators to co-sponsor the resolution. The SEC finalized...
President Biden on Wednesday came out in support of Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) proposal for three separate bills providing U.S. aid to Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific, urging passage of the bills this week. “The House must pass the package this week and the Senate should quickly follow. I will sign this into law immediately...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act that established a budget process unique to the legislative branch. The act created the House and Senate Budget committees and the Congressional Budget Office, along with procedures the president must follow when implementing congressional appropriations. Fifty years later, the Bipartisan Policy...
The Biden campaign on Wednesday jabbed at former President Trump's ability to attract donors after an analysis of federal data showed the Trump campaign is lagging behind its 2020 pace in terms of money and individual donors. "Donald Trump simply cannot keep up with Joe Biden: He’s too lazy to campaign, too toxic to generate...
The conservative effort to put an abortion ban on the ballot in Nebraska has been bankrolled entirely to date by Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.). Ricketts donated $500,000 in cash on March 26 to the group Protect Women and Children, according to its campaign finance report filed with the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission. The group...