California’s move to launch a redistricting effort ahead of next year’s midterms has piled new pressure on other blue states to follow suit. Capitol Hill Democrats are hailing Thursday’s announcement by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.)…
Attorney General Pam Bondi directed the rescission of a number of D.C. policing policies on immigration, saying “DC’s sanctuary policies no longer apply.” In a series of late Thursday actions, Bondi targeted several longstanding policies as well…
President Trump’s assault on liberal ideals in the world’s greatest institutions of learning reveals a vacuous anti-intellectual conservatism. His strategy speaks to his MAGA supporters culturally and politically in pushing back against what he calls…
On the menu: Classical on the rocks; Newsom unveils Texas revenge package; Brown in; Where do you put 653 House members?; A dumpling for a bear There are many kinds of bias in the news…
You could practically hear the cheering on Thursday as critics of President Trump finally got what they’ve waited months for — some indication that tariffs might (finally!) drive prices higher. Yesterday’s Producer Price Index report…
Duke University, my alma mater, largely escaped the national campus turmoil following Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel and the Israeli military’s subsequent brutal war on Gaza. There were no encampments or serious complaints…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin will benefit the most from Friday’s high stakes meeting with President Trump in Alaska. “I believe that Putin will benefit from this, because what he is seeking, frankly,…
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) said she left her city on Thursday amid President Trump’s crackdown and police takeover because she needed to pick her seven-year-old daughter up from camp, emphasizing she was in control…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) criticized Border Patrol as “sick and pathetic” after armed agents made a show of force outside the governor’s Thursday press conference to announce retaliatory redistricting measures. “It just said everything…
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are hours away from their Friday face to face meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. Both leaders will be accompanied by a host of other officials for the high-profile summit…
While most of the conversation around the post-pandemic workplace has focused on remote working and RTO (return to office) mandates, new research is pointing to an emerging trend. Microsoft’s latest Work Trend Index has found…
The texts arrive to us late at night and just before dawn, from women as sleepless as we are. They are military spouses, increasingly alarmed that the Pentagon’s rhetoric around “readiness, lethality, and warfighting” masks…
Pop quiz for political junkies: What do Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) all have in common? Answer: They are all two-term…
Britain’s plans to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 won’t be derailed by high costs, even though Brits are now paying some of the world’s highest residential electricity prices. Nor will the effort be derailed by…
(WHTM) — More than 55,000 hairdryers sold under the “Remington” brand have been recalled due to risk of electrocution and shock hazards resulting in injury and/or death. The hair dryers were found to lack an…
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday tapped the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) chief to serve as Washington’s “emergency police commissioner,” a move to wrest power from the district’s current police chief amid the Trump administration’s…
The faculty of the University of California scored a victory for the Los Angeles branch campus against the White House, the first win for a university individually targeted by the federal government. A judge ordered the Trump administration…
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are locked in a close battle in the state’s bitterly contested Senate primary, according to an Emerson College Polling survey released Friday. The poll showed…
Texas voters are split on the Republicans’ redistricting push, which could net five more GOP House seats ahead of the midterms, new polling shows. In a Texas survey from Emerson College Polling, 38 percent of…
President Trump says he’s open to following through on former President Biden’s push to reschedule marijuana, a move that comes up short of legalization but would still provide a major boost for the cannabis industry. …