President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress and a former advisor to Hillary Clinton, to head the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. The position requires Senate confirmation, which might be a long shot, given Tanden’s long history of feuding with not just Republicans but also fellow Democrats. […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci, an infectious diseases expert and top advisor to the White House on the COVID-19 pandemic, said that he was for closing bars and restaurants but reopening schools in an interview on Sunday. “The default position should be to try as best as possible, within reason, to keep the children in school, to […]
On Monday, Penguin Random House announced it would publish a sequel to 12 Rules for Life, the bestselling self-help book by Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson. In response, several employees of the publishing giant broke down crying—and no, these weren’t happy tears due to the prospect of selling so many books. “He is an icon of […]
Sidney Powell, an election lawyer assisting the Trump campaign, has claimed that the president is the victim of a vast conspiracy to steal the 2020 Election that involved foreign powers, a corrupt software company, and other players. On Saturday, Powell made even stronger claims during an interview on Newsmax. She accused Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, […]
Iowa State University has reaffirmed the free speech rights of conservative students initially under fire for tweeting an edgy comment—thus provoking the ire of several ISU journalism professors who demanded the students be punished. A few days after the 2020 election, the Twitter account of ISU’s College Republicans made this statement: “Everyone, you must arm […]
Throughout the fall, New York City repeatedly delayed reopening its schools for most students, despite an emerging scientific consensus that classrooms were not significant areas of spread for COVID-19. Now Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered a full shutdown of schools due to rising coronavirus numbers; the city has reached the 3 percent test-positivity rate, […]
One school district in Washington state has evidently decided that Asians no longer qualify as persons of color. In their latest equity report, administrators at North Thurston Public Schools—which oversees some 16,000 students—lumped Asians in with whites and measured their academic achievements against “students of color,” a category that includes “Black, Latinx, Native American, Pacific […]
President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the 2020 election is an embarrassing low for a Republican Party that has grown increasingly detached from reality. But I can’t agree with a Washington Post article arguing that it’s evidence the party has embraced “rising authoritarianism.” Don’t misunderstand me: There’s a strong argument to be made that Trump […]
Last May, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos formally issued new rules regarding Title IX, the law that prohibits sexual harassment in schools. Though intended to clarify confusing and contradictory past federal guidance that had weakened due process protections for students accused of misconduct, the new rules drew swift condemnation from Democrats —who accused the Trump administration […]
With the COVID-19 positivity rate on the rise in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has announced a new wave of restrictions on bars, restaurants, gyms, and other places of public accommodation. But his new coronavirus countermeasures go much further than that: Cuomo has also declared that private gatherings in residences must be limited to […]
