Of all the ailments afflicting our public schools, few are worse than the dumbing down of students. This casts a pall on the country’s future, and this ominous cloud is cast by design. That’s why you can look at pretty much any state in the country, and the National Assessment of Educational Progress results are similar — […]

Berkeley schools increasingly spark disgust in those who believe Jews are people, too.  The name “Berkeley” is becoming more and more comparable with the term “antisemitism.” This comes as no surprise, as the University of California, Berkeley, and the Berkeley Unified School District foster some of the most vile instances of antisemitism on school grounds […]

Many Democrats have tried to spin the rise in gas prices since President Joe Biden became president. From blaming former President Donald Trump, to the pandemic, to the war in Ukraine, to climate change, there have been many excuses from Democrats to rationalize the high gas prices.   And then, there are those like Democratic Colorado state […]

As college basketball infests your television this week, there is a good chance you will be swept up in March Madness. But what seems more like pathological madness has been spreading in intercollegiate sports for years, and some people are looking to Washington for help — arguably the craziest thing of all. The clearest madness has […]

Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) claimed the state’s immigration law is an “absolute disaster” that would violate the civil rights of many of the citizens in the Lone Star State. Castro joined MNSBC on Wednesday, the same day that a federal appeals court is hearing oral arguments over a Texas immigration law that would enable...

Lev Parnas, a convicted former aide to Rudy Giuliani, named members of Congress Wednesday who he alleged were “doing the bidding” of Russia by attempting to dig up “dirt” on President Biden during his 2020 campaign. At a GOP-led House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing titled “Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office,” Parnas...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will provide an update Wednesday on decisions reached by the nation’s central bank in meetings over the last two days. The Fed had in recent months indicated it might roll back interest rates by this point. But no change in rates is expected at present since February’s inflation remained higher...

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) went after his opponent Bernie Moreno on Wednesday, a day after the Trump-backed Republican won the state’s contested primary. Brown said in an MSNBC “Morning Joe” interview that the difference between him and Moreno is clear. “My opponent has always looked out for himself. He's even said he's not going to...

Congress is racing toward a Friday shutdown deadline, with leaders putting the finishing touches on the final funding package for fiscal 2024 amid uncertainty about the timeline for passing the legislation. Funding for the departments of Homeland Security, Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and State; the Internal Revenue Service; and general government and foreign...

A committee of Federal Reserve officials voted Wednesday to keep interest rates at a 22-year high after unexpectedly high job gains and inflation delayed likely plans for rate cuts. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the panel of Fed officials responsible for setting borrowing costs, voted to keep its baseline interest rate at the range...