Universities, which are usually quick to issue statements addressing pressing social concerns such as the death of George Floyd or the Dobbs decision on abortion, kept their lips sealed in the immediate aftermath of the Hamas attacks on Israel. Their sluggish reaction to the Oct. 7 attacks, compounded with an unremitting barrage of anti-Israel student protests, incited a wave of anger and backlash by prominent donors and alumni, many of whom are Jewish.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said “good riddance” to Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), after the former Speaker revealed his plan to retire from Congress at the end of the year. “I say a good riddance to him,” Raskin said Wednesday in an interview with MSNBC Wednesday. “He did nothing for this country or his Constitution at...

The gunman who opened fire on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), campus Wednesday afternoon was a professor who had unsuccessfully sought a job at the school, according to reports.  The man shot and killed three people and critically wounded a fourth before he died in a shootout with police, authorities said. A law enforcement...

Milton Friedman once observed that major policy changes tend to happen only during a crisis, and that "the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around."

GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie say he “had enough” of Vivek Ramaswamy’s “garbage” on the debate stage, where he repeatedly launched attacks at the conservative entrepreneur.  Asked by CNN’s Dana Bash in an interview post-debate about why he defended former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley from Ramaswamy’s insults — including questioning her "basic intelligence" — the...