Saturday Night Live has not been funny in over a decade, but at least it used to try. Once upon a time, it would have found the hysteria in a murderers' row of elite university presidents unable to agree that active calls for genocide against Jews constitute a violation of codes of conduct. Alas, SNL tried and failed to make the butt of the joke not the dilettante dictators who steamrolled all other forms of free speech until the Jews were the target, but rather the powerful woman who managed to hold them to account.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Sunday blasted Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), whose questioning of three elite universities' presidents during a hearing on antisemitism went viral last week, over the House GOP Conference chair's support for former President Trump. “Where does Elise Stefanik get off lecturing anybody about antisemitism, when she's the hugest supporter of Donald...

The role of the presidency would be drastically reformed, with unknown implications for the wider global arena, and America’s place in it. 

Former President Trump is leading President Biden in the battleground states of Michigan and Georgia, according to new polling. The CNN polls released Monday found that Trump has a 10-point lead over Biden among Michigan voters despite the sitting president carrying the state in 2020. Fifty percent of Michigan voters said they would support Trump, 40 percent...

Ukraine and Russia will be preparing for an extended war into 2024.

Former President Trump expanded his lead over the GOP field in Iowa just weeks before the caucuses with a new poll showing him topping Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by 32 points. The NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll released Monday found that 51 percent of likely Republican caucusgoers say their first-choice candidate is Trump — an 8-point jump from...

There is good news and bad news about today’s U.S. economy. The good news is that inflation is moderating towards the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent inflation target, and the once overheated labor market is now finally cooling. The bad news is that we are yet to see the full effect on the economy of the Fed’s...

Nearly 80 percent of all the grades given to undergraduates at Yale University last year were in the A range.

Editor’s note: The Hill’s Morning Report is our daily newsletter that dives deep into Washington’s agenda. To subscribe, click here or fill out the box below. With the holiday recess fast approaching, lawmakers in both parties are expressing concern about the future of a government funding handshake deal brokered between the White House and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). In late spring, President Biden and...

Congress is staring down a hefty to-do list as it heads into the final legislative week of 2023, sparking a last-ditch effort in both chambers to complete must-pass legislation and check various priorities off of party agendas. Toward the top of that list for the Senate is striking a deal on border security and sending...