The Associated Press, despite boasting many excellent individual reporters, long ago lowered standards and became, at least at its top levels, a frequent purveyor of toxic and dishonest left-wing agitprop. Even by those lowered standards, though, the Associated Press’s main story on the resignation of Harvard University President Claudine Gay was a disgrace.

I was in the middle of my last year in college at the University of Pennsylvania when the COVID pandemic happened. In March 2020, I was on spring break when the university stopped in-person classes and switched to remote learning. I didn’t know it then, but I would never set foot on Penn’s campus again before graduating. Last month, I was sent a refund check as part of a class-action lawsuit for the transition to online learning. The total didn’t even amount to the cost of one of my textbooks.

If the board in charge of governing Harvard University had its way, a morally bankrupt serial plagiarist would still be leading the Ivy League school.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is perhaps the most dishonest figure involved in President Joe Biden’s border crisis, but he is not the one to blame for it, nor can he solve it.

Picture campuses that embrace moral complexity and ideological diversity as kindling for knowledge rather than impediments to be shouted down. Dream of graduates prepared to reason alongside rivals with compassion. 

Former President Trump on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to overturn a Colorado court’s landmark ruling disqualifying him from the state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ban. Trump’s petition asks that the Supreme Court agree to take up the case and immediately reverse the Colorado ruling in a summary decision without oral...

A quick recap of the day and what to look forward to tomorrow {beacon} Evening Report   © AP Republicans rally at border House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) led a group of about 60 GOP members of Congress in a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border near Eagle Pass, Texas, as the Senate and White House hash...

Former President Trump's attorney Alina Habba on Wednesday said the former president is concerned the U.S. Supreme Court justices may "shy away from being pro-Trump," and rule against him in regard to the recent decisions in Colorado and Maine that kicked him off the states' 2024 primary ballots. Responding to New York Times reporter Maggie...

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story National debt tops $34 trillion The U.S. national debt hit $34 trillion for the first time last Friday, according to new data from the Treasury Department. © AP Photo/J. David Ake The nation's debt topped $34 trillion...

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie said Wednesday that fellow candidate Nikki Haley “knew exactly what she was doing” when she failed to mention slavery as a cause of the Civil War at a town hall last week — in a moment that prompted broad criticism from Democrats, as well as her GOP primary opponents. In...