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The Storm Brewing for Democrats in Michigan

By: Aymann Ismail， Slate
Michigan has the power to unravel a second Biden presidency. It just might.

The Storm Brewing for Democrats in Michigan

'Trump Did This': How To Beat MAGA on Border Security

By: Jill Lawrence， The Bulwark
Force them to own their immigration fails, starting right now.

Biden Up Against Nostalgia for Trump's First Term

By: Stephen Collinson， CNN
President Joe Biden is casting the 2024 election partly as a referendum on Donald Trump, but it's a harder card to play now that he's in office and some voters have warming memories of the former president's chaotic term.

Biden Up Against Nostalgia for Trump’s First Term

Majority (Still) Backs Border Wall, Stiff Immigration Controls

By: Terry Jones， I＆amp；I／TIPP
Most Americans continue to strongly favor more enforcement, not less, of current immigration rules.

College Protests Over Gaza Deepen Democratic Rifts

By: Katie Glueck， New York Times
Scenes of chaos unfolding on campuses across the country are stoking internal divisions and carry political risk as a major election year unfolds.

College Protests Over Gaza Deepen Democratic Rifts

Giorgia Meloni's Soft Revolution

By: Ryan Girdusky， The American Conservative
When Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party won the largest share of the vote in September 2022, the mainstream media were horrified that the far right was

Will Gen-Z Cancel America?

By: Wallsten ＆amp； Citrin， The Hill
An undeniable current of anti-Americanism has surfaced in a number of the anti-Israel protests now raging across the country.

Will Gen-Z Cancel America?

The Travesty of the Trump Trials

By: Victor Davis Hanson， American Greatness
Tragically for the country, to stop this left-wing madness, the Trump travesties may not be the end, but the beginning of precisely what the Founders feared.

The Travesty of the Trump Trials

Trump Attorney's Embarrassing Courtroom Apology

By: Norman Eisen， CNN

Trump Attorney’s Embarrassing Courtroom Apology

The Most Infamous Public Toilet in America

By: Ezra Klein， New York Times
We think of adding regulation as something liberals do and removing regulation as something conservatives do. But that is only part of the story.

GOP Establishment's Days Are Numbered

By: Kevin Roberts， The Daily Signal
The recent House vote on foreign aid while the southern border remains wide open reveals a divide within the GOP.

President Biden's Secret Weapon for November

By: Tarren Bragdon， New York Post
President Biden is the weakest incumbent in modern history. No matter: He's using the strength of the federal government to register and mobilize voters who are likely to support his re-elect...

President Biden's Secret Weapon for November

Donald Trump's Sleepy, Sleazy Criminal Trial

By: Benjamin Wallace-Wells， The New Yorker
The most striking aspect of the former President's hush-money trial so far has been that, for the first time in a decade, Trump is struggling to command attention.

Donald Trump's Sleepy, Sleazy Criminal Trial

Education Apocalypse Now?

By: Glenn Reynolds， Substack
The Ivy League Hits An Iceberg.

Campus Leaders Must Show Courage, Stand Up to Hatred

By: Robert Kraft， NY Post
Signs at Columbia University read Go Back to Poland, calling for the Jewish community to return to the horrific death camps of the Holocaust.

The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education

By: George Packer， Atlantic
Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university.

The Strange Death of the Family

By: Joel Kotkin， Spiked
The world is sleepwalking towards a depopulation crisis.

Biden's Dilemma: NC Voters Are Sour on Economy

By: Ned Barnett， The News ＆amp； Observer
All indicators are up, except the one that matters most to Biden's reelection

Who's on Trial, a Former President or a Mob Boss?

By: Jackie Calmes， Los Angeles Times
It's downright disturbing to contemplate the similarities between the Donald's hush money trial and that of an organized crime don.

The Economy: From Bad to Worse--Stagflation

By: Larry Kudlow， FOX Business
Consumer spending has slowed, capital investment slowed, inventories slumped - and the trade deficit widened.

The Economy: From Bad to Worse--Stagflation

Is the Worst Yet to Come?

By: Steve Huntley， JohnKassNews
By Steve Huntley April 28, 2024 This and that. Random thoughts and observations about current events. Trigger alert! What follows might harm the psyche of the woke. Perhaps those sensitive souls should retreat to a safe space, which I suspect will be Judenfrei. Peaceful protest is a hallowed right and tradition in America. These days, however, that right, which achieved ... Read More

Biden's Abortion Obsession Reveals Lopsided Priorities

By: Brian Burch， RealClearPolicy
As his list of catastrophic failures mount, including an unprecedented border crisis, growing economic disparities, soaring housing costs, debt and inflation, President Biden has chosen as his si

Columbia Students Cheer for Ideological Heirs of Nazis

By: Rafael Medoff， NY Post
A century ago, Columbia students protested Nazis - today they cheer for their ideological heirs, Hamas.

Columbia Students Cheer for Ideological Heirs of Nazis

Republicans Are in Damage Control Mode Over Abortion

By: Sasha Abramsky， The Nation
Arizona's 1864 abortion law has local party leaders flailing to avoid alienating voters.

Discussing Sotomayor's Retirement Is Strategic, Not Sexist

By: Arwa Mahdawi， Guardian
The liberal justice has been called the supreme court's conscience but we can't afford a repeat of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

'Trump: The Sequel' Will Be a Real-Life Horror Show

By: Simon Tisdall， The Observer
If the former president regains the White House in November, America faces a more dystopian future than that being shown in cinemas

'Trump: The Sequel' Will Be a Real-Life Horror Show

Media Propagates Evil Lies About Situation in Middle East

By: Michael Goodwin， NY Post
We now have clear proof of the adage that a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth can put its boots on.

Media Propagates Evil Lies About Situation in Middle East

Civil War Movie: What Kind of American Are You?

By: John Kass， JohnKassNews
By John Kass April 26, 2024 My family survived a terrible Civil War in Greece just before I was born. Not in some Hollywood movie, with combatants issuing their pithy sayings, those bad fantasy hombres with just the right length of chin stubble as they squint through the sights, but a civil war in real life, with real blood and ... Read More

Civil War Movie: What Kind of American Are You?

Israel Has a Choice To Make: Rafah or Riyadh

By: Thomas Friedman， New York Times
U.S. diplomacy to end the Gaza war and forge a new relationship with Saudi Arabia has been converging in recent

Israel Has a Choice To Make: Rafah or Riyadh

Justice Alito Is Holding Trump to a Different Standard

By: Jamelle Bouie， New York Times
I mentioned it in passing in my Friday column, but I was struck - disturbed, really - by one specific

Justice Alito Is Holding Trump to a Different Standard

'Let Joe Be Joe' Has Been a Disaster

By: Sasha Stone， Substack
The pause, the fake applause and ... cannibals?

'Let Joe Be Joe' Has Been a Disaster

Institutionalizing a Lie

By: Max Eden， City Journal
The Biden administration's new Title IX rules mean that all American public schools must operate on the fundamental falsehood of gender ideology.

The Glorious Proletarian Theater of Pro Wrestling

By: Kim Kelly， The Nation
An ode to one of the greatest working-class art forms of our time.

How a Nation Reformed Its Universities

By: Greg Conti， Compact Magazine
Universities are once again at the center of national debate.

Biden's Civil Rights Rollback

By: KC Johnson， The Free Press
Under Trump, college kids accused of sexual assault were given the right to defend themselves. With his update of Title IX, Biden has taken it away.

PA Could Be 'Ground Zero' for a Novel Presidential Tie

By: Mabinty Quarshie， DC＆nbsp；Examiner
Pennsylvania is the top battleground state that President Joe Biden needs to win to stave off a 2024 loss to Donald Trump or an electoral tie.

PA Could Be 'Ground Zero' for a Novel Presidential Tie

Navigating Transitions in an Uncertain Economy

By: Mohamed El-Erian， Project Syndicate
Mohamed ElErian explains how to recalibrate expectations in the face of yet another forecasting failure

Navigating Transitions in an Uncertain Economy

Ukraine Is Far From Doomed

By: Deryugina ＆amp； Fedyk， Project Syndicate
When comparing Ukraine's situation in 2024 to Europe's in 1941, Russia's defeat seems entirely possible.

House Speaker Mike Jellyfish Flops Again

By: Deroy Murdock， The American Spectator
House Speaker Mike Johnson has gone from zero to Mitch McConnell in record time. The conservative firebrand who was elected last Oct. 25 to lead Republicans to greater glory now resembles his depleted Senate counterpart.

Arizona Indictments Come at the Worst Time for Trump

By: Hayes Brown， MSNBC
The Supreme Court should focus on the crimes Donald Trump's allies are accused of committing when it rules on the

Arizona Indictments Come at the Worst Time for Trump

All the Disinformation That's Fit To Print

By: Holman Jenkins， Wall Street Journal
Will heavy-handed U.S. intelligence spooks re-elect Trump? Will the New York Times help?

All the Disinformation That's Fit To Print

With Trump in Court, Can Biden Take Advantage?

By: Politi，＆nbsp；Fedor ＆amp； Miller， Financial Times
As polls show the race tied, the president is campaigning around the country and his opponent is stuck spending his days in a Manhattan courtroom

With Trump in Court, Can Biden Take Advantage?

The Most Feared and Least Known Political Operative in U.S.

By: Michael Kruse， Politico
Susie Wiles, the people who know her the best believe, is a force more sensed than seen. Her influence on political events, to many who know what they're watching, is as obvious as it is invisible. The prints leave not so much as a smudge. It's a shock when she shows up in pictures. Even then it is almost always in the background. She speaks on the record hardly ever, and she speaks about herself even less.

The Most Feared and Least Known Political Operative in U.S.

Biden's Outrageous Quest To Jail Trump Before the Election

By: Sean Collins， Spiked
The Manhattan hush-money case is absurd, unjust and outrageously partisan.

Biden's Outrageous Quest To Jail Trump Before the Election

The Transportation Department's New Path

By: David Dayen， American Prospect
In a busy week for regulatory action, Pete Buttigieg's emergence in fighting corporate power should not be overlooked.

Anti-Semitism and the DEI Agenda

By: Joanna Williams， Spiked
The anti-Israel camps taking over elite universities are a physical manifestation of the DEI agenda.

Is Biden Slipping in PA?

By: Shane Harris， AMAC
President Joe Biden's highly unusual three-day swing through the state in the week leading up to primary day.

Continuing a Tradition of Civics Excellence

By: Mike Sabo， RealClearEducation
With new institutes emerging at colleges and universities in Florida, Ohio, Utah, Tennessee, North Carolina, Texas, and elsewhere, civics education may be seeing a rebirth.

The Law Isolates Trump From His Circle

By: Amanda Marcotte， Salon
The January 6 co-conspirators are likely too wrapped up in their criminal cases to give Trump a helping hand

TX Tramples 1st Amendment Rights With Protest Crackdown

By: Angel Eduardo， FIRE
More than 50 arrested after state police storm protestors at University of Texas at Austin.

Baby Blues

By: Steven Malanga， City Journal
Democratic states lead the U.S. birth dearth.

Iran's Nightmares

By: Victor Davis Hanson， American Greatness

Iran's Nightmares

Can Biden Revive the Fortunes of American Workers?

By: Paul Krugman， New York Times
Last week, employees at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., voted by almost three to one to join the United

Can Biden Revive the Fortunes of American Workers?

Postcard From the Hispanic Working Class

By: Ruy Teixeira， Substack
Education polarization comes to America's Latinos.

Postcard From the Hispanic Working Class

Elon Musk vs. the Globalist Censors

By: Brendan O'Neill， Spiked
Australia's demand that X take down a violent video clip in every country in the world is wildly authoritarian.

Biden Vexes Commoners With Another Election Money Grab

By: James Bovard， NY Post
Much of Westchester County was locked down Thursday thanks to President Biden and his vast entourage descending on Irvington for a fundraiser reception in Michael Douglas' mansion.

Biden Vexes Commoners With Another Election Money Grab

For the Sake of Democracy, Celebrate Mike Johnson

By: Frank Bruni， New York Times
We've seen movies aplenty in which a deeply flawed protagonist, someone we'd pretty much given up hope on, has a

The Return of Stagflation?

By: Bevan，＆nbsp；Cannon ＆amp； Walworth， RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM
Thursday on the RealClearPolitics radio show (SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124, M-F at 6:00 pm EDT), Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon discuss the political impact of the latest GDP numbers, whether "stagflation" is back, and the meaning of new Census Bureau statistics on America's falling birthrate, which is the lowest since the 1930s.

The Return of Stagflation?

Will Trump Be Tried for Jan 6? It's More Uncertain Than Ever

By: Harry Litman， LA Times
The conservative justices seemed likely to confer broad presidential immunity from prosecution - and in a way that would further delay any federal trial.

Will Trump Be Tried for Jan 6? It's More Uncertain Than Ever

How Columbia's Campus Was Torn Apart Over Gaza

By: Andrew Marantz， The New Yorker
The university asked the N.Y.P.D. to arrest pro-Palestine student protesters. Was it a necessary step to protect Jewish students, or a dangerous encroachment on academic freedom?

Alvin Bragg and Dems' ‘Election Interference'

By: Kimberley Strassel， Wall Street Journal
His theory in New York state's Trump case is crazier than you think.

Alvin Bragg and Dems’ ‘Election Interference’

Biden Courts Pro-Hamas Voters in Michigan

By: Tim Murtaugh， Washington Times
It's instructive to watch the way people react to the pro-Hamas demonstrations on college campuses. You can learn a lot, especially about members of the media and President Biden.

Biden Courts Pro-Hamas Voters in Michigan

Giving Up on Elite Colleges--and Heading South

By: Eric Spitznagel， The Free Press
'Even if I could've gotten into Harvard, I wouldn't have gone.'

Trump Has a Path to Victory

By: Brandon Weichert， The National Interest
The upcoming 2024 U.S. presidential election is shaping up to be tightly contested between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Amidst economic struggles and concerns over border security and global conflict, the polls show a narrowing gap, with Trump gaining a lead in key swing states.

Jewish Students Fear for Their Safety. Where's Biden?

By: Elizabeth Stauffer， DC Examiner
The recent explosion of antisemitic demonstrations on Ivy League campuses is a tipping point for President Joe Biden's America.

Democrats Have a Trump Trial, Now Just Need a Crime

By: Jonathan Turley， NY Post
We've never seen a case like this one where a dead misdemeanor from 2016 could be revived as a felony just before the 2024 election

What Democrats Want Out of the Trump Trial

By: Byron York， Washington Examiner
WHAT DEMOCRATS WANT OUT OF THE TRUMP TRIAL. Former President Donald Trump is back in a Manhattan courtroom after a Wednesday break. On the way to court Thursday morning, Trump stopped at a construction site where he received an enthusiastic welcome from workers chanting,

Democrats Target Ted Cruz To Stave Off Senate Disaster

By: Shane Harris， AMAC
With just over six months to go in the 2024 campaign, incumbent Republican Ted Cruz has a healthy seven-point lead over Democrat Allred.

Competition, the American Way

By: Jack Miller， RealClearEducation
Our K-12 educational system is designed to serve much less than 50% of American students.For decades the cry has been that

'Reverse Coattails' Won't Rescue Biden

By: Nate Moore， Substack
Across the battleground states, down-ballot Democrats are running well ahead of President Biden. This delta has been a defining electoral feature since the 2022 midterms, where congressional Democrats significantly outperformed expectations set by Biden's poor approval rating. With the incumbent back on the ballot in 6 months, some Democratic strategists

The Cass Review Won't Fade Away

By: Jesse Singal， The Dispatch
How youth gender medicine broke almost every liberal institution it touched.

The Tricky Judgments on When To Loosen

By: Martin Wolf， Financial Times
An ECB interest rate cut soon would make sense but the Fed faces a more difficult call in the US

The Tricky Judgments on When To Loosen

Behind the Mask: Why the New Protestors Cover Their Faces

By: David Weigel， Semafor
The pandemic, social media, and legal changes have encouraged left-wing activists to cover up.

Katherine Maher's Color Revolution

By: Christopher Rufo， City Journal
The NPR boss is a symbol of regime change-foreign and domestic.

Katherine Maher's Color Revolution

Republicans' Hollow Threats Against Dem Corruption

By: Nate Hochman， Am.＆nbsp；Spectator
Erick Erickson made a splash within right-wing circles on the Right's alleged departure from limited-government, free-market principles.

Republicans' Hollow Threats Against Dem Corruption

It Just Might Be That Dems Know How To Win Michigan

By: John Nichols， The Nation
A pair of special-election landslides proves that the party is doing something right.

Kicking the Can Down Ukraine's Crumbling Road

By: George Beebe， Responsible Statecraft
Without a strategy to end the war, the new US aid package will only take us right back to where we started a few months from now

Kicking the Can Down Ukraine's Crumbling Road

Kennedy Now Threatens Biden and Trump

By: Ed Kilgore， New York Magazine
For a while there, the independent ticket of ex-Democrats Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Nicole Shanahan seemed to be taking crucial votes away from Democrat Joe Biden, at least as indicated by comparing three-way and five-way (with Cornel West and Jill Stein) polls to head-to-head matchups of the incumbent and Donald Trump.

Kennedy Now Threatens Biden and Trump

A Democrat's Case for Saving Speaker Johnson

By: Russell Berman， The Atlantic
If Speaker Mike Johnson keeps his job, it'll be Democrats who save him. Like his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, the Louisiana conservative is facing an attempted ouster after he defied Republican hard-liners by relying on Democratic support to pass a funding bill-$61 billion for Ukraine, in this case-they hated.

A Democrat's Case for Saving Speaker Johnson

Biden Blesses Abortion With Sign of the Cross

By: Paul Bedard， Washington Examiner
President Joe Biden has enraged Catholic Church regulars with his latest show of approval for abortion, a Vatican red line.

40 Policies That Will Define the 2024 Election

By: John Halpin， Substack
Results of a comprehensive new poll of 4,038 registered voters from The Liberal Patriot and Blueprint conducted by YouGov.

40 Policies That Will Define the 2024 Election

An Ugly Win

By: Adeline Von Drehle， RealClearPolitics
Winning ugly. A catchy way to describe an imperfect victory, but a victory eked out nonetheless. In sports, it's considered okay to win ugly, and sometimes even seen as a growth exercise. And while political races can be the fiercest competition of all, winning ugly carries a different weight in Washington.

An Ugly Win

Secret Service Scuffle Prompts DEI, Vetting Scrutiny

By: Susan Crabtree， RealClearPolitics
An incident involving a physical attack by a female Secret Service agent tasked with protecting Vice President Kamala Harris is raising questions about whether the agency had thoroughly vetted her during her hiring and whether an ongoing push to increase the numbers of women in the service and boost overall workforce staff played a role in her selection.

Secret Service Scuffle Prompts DEI, Vetting Scrutiny

Judge Points Out Biden DOJ's Hypocrisy, Double Standard

By: Miranda Devine， NY Post
Peter Navarro, a former Trump trade adviser, is sitting in jail for defying a subpoena from Nancy Pelosi's star chamber, the January 6 Committee.

Judge Points Out Biden DOJ's Hypocrisy, Double Standard

Why Elites Are Rarely Held Accountable for Terrible Mistakes

By: Lionel Shriver， Spiked
Lionel Shriver on why elites are rarely held accountable for their most damaging mistakes.

We're at Peak Sports Right Now for a Reason

By: Will Leitch， New York Magazine
Americans are tuning out a presidential election in favor of distractions.

Will Israel Be a Game-Changer In The 2024 Election?

By: Terry Jones， I＆amp；I／TIPP
Republicans now the only major party that remains solid in its support for long-time ally Israel.

Taylor Swift: Why You Gotta Be So Mean?

By: Freya Sanders， The Free Press
In her latest album, the pop star crucifies ex-boyfriends like never before.

Columbia Left-Wing Radicalism as Dangerous as It Was in 1968

By: Rich Lowry， NYP
More than 50 years after anti-Vietnam War demonstrators roiled the Columbia campus in 1968, anti-Israel agitators are disrupting the school's operations.

Young People Are Enraged, Opting Out of America

By: Scott Galloway， MSNBC
NYU business school professor Scott Galloway talks to MSNBC's "Morning Joe" about why young people are struggling economically:

Young People Are Enraged, Opting Out of America

In 2024, Americans Will Be Voting Like It's 1892

By: Charlie Kirk， The Federalist
Both candidates have a record, and we know which president saw success and which one has only produced one crisis after another.

In 2024, Americans Will Be Voting Like It's 1892

On Trial, Trump Isn't the Superhero MAGA Craves

By: Sidney Blumenthal， The Guardian
He wants his devotees to see the court case as trial by combat, with him as warrior. But the truth is more pathetic

On Trial, Trump Isn't the Superhero MAGA Craves

Chicago's Criminal Complex Denies Our Right to Safety

By: Paul Vallas， JohnKassNews
You want to know why violent crime is surging in the nation's urban centers? Look no further than the radical left's efforts to reform the criminal justice system by pretending that criminals are just a new class of victims whose violence is a product of our systemically racist society.

Chicago's Criminal Complex Denies Our Right to Safety

Student Protesters Are Schooling Their Universities

By: Sarah Jones， New York Magazine
What is a university for? At Columbia University and its affiliated women's college, Barnard, it is ostensibly to value critical thought, a broad mind, and a commitment to reason.

Student Protesters Are Schooling Their Universities

Skip the Ivy League and Go to a State School

By: Nate Silver， Substack
The Ivy League and other elite private colleges are losing esteem - and they deserve it.

Skip the Ivy League and Go to a State School

The Republicans Who Want American Carnage

By: Adam Serwer， The Atlantic
Tom Cotton has never seen a left-wing protest he didn't want crushed at gunpoint.

The Republicans Who Want American Carnage

Trump's Trial Will Only Help Him

By: Paul du Quenoy， Newsweek
If Trump should be reelected in November, he may owe his victory in no small part to Alvin Bragg and Juan Merchan.

Trump's Trial Will Only Help Him

The Rule of Law Depends on John Eastman

By: Mark Pulliam， TomKlingenstein.com
Trump Derangement Syndrome and the tyranny of woke apparatchiks in the bar threaten the longstanding principles of our legal system.

The Rule of Law Depends on John Eastman

Meet the Zoomerwaffen

By: Peachy Keenan， Substack
The Jewish Question: It's (Suddenly) Complicated. Plus: A big personal reveal!

Meet the Zoomerwaffen

Trump Heavily Outspent in Swing States

By: Bevan，＆nbsp；Cannon ＆amp； Walworth， RCP on SiriusXM
Tuesday on the RealClearPolitics radio show (SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124, M-F at 6:00 pm EDT) Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon discuss new data revealing how the Biden campaign is outspending Trump in critical swing states and the politics behind President Biden's trip today to Florida to speak about abortion.

Trump Heavily Outspent in Swing States

Leaving CNN Was How I Found My Voice

By: Brooke Baldwin， Vanity Fair
The former anchor exited the network after 13 years not because of Trump coverage or pandemic chaos, but because of something far more ordinary-and insidious.

Leaving CNN Was How I Found My Voice

Bragg's Case a Legal Embarrassment & Historic Mistake

By: Jed Shugerman， NY Times
It's not the crime; it's the cover-up. But it's still a highly flawed case.

Bragg's Case a Legal Embarrassment & Historic Mistake

Dems Right To Toss Sham Impeachment Against Mayorkas

By: Will Saletan， The Bulwark
House Republicans undermined real action on border security and made a mockery of the impeachment process.

Dems Right To Toss Sham Impeachment Against Mayorkas

How McConnell, Schumer Beat Conservatives on Ukraine

By: Everett ＆amp； Haberkorn，Politico
Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden might have been in lockstep on aiding Ukraine, but some things the Senate minority leader had to shoulder alone.

How McConnell, Schumer Beat Conservatives on Ukraine

Biden Lawsuit Against Sheetz Gas Will Enrage PA Voters

By: Salena Zito， DC＆nbsp；Examiner
The Biden EEOC is filing a federal lawsuit to stop Sheetz gasoline company, a Pennsylvania mainstay, from using criminal background checks. How weird.

Biden Lawsuit Against Sheetz Gas Will Enrage PA Voters

'Grading for Equity' Is Hurting School Kids

By: Vince Bielski， RealClearInvestigations
Joe Feldman has faced many tough crowds in the course of successfully selling his "Grading for Equity" program to school districts across the nation. During the consultant's presentations, teachers concerned that his approach lowers standards have rolled their eyes, questioned his understanding of students, and worse.

'Grading for Equity' Is Hurting School Kids

Trump's Trial Is About Politics, Not Justice

By: Jonathan Emord， Washington Times
Less than seven months from Election Day, Americans are continuing to lose trust in President Biden and the Democratic Party's ability to lead on issues that matter, such as border security, crime, and the economy.

Trump’s Trial Is About Politics, Not Justice

Republicans Not Protecting Elections, Don't Want Democracy

By: LZ Granderson， LAT
The latest efforts to exclude Black votes echo the earliest days of our republic.

Republicans Not Protecting Elections, Don't Want Democracy

Australia Pushing for Global Internet Censorship

By: Michael Shellenberger， Substack
American-born Julie Inman Grant is a key architect of the multigovernmental Global Online Safety Regulators Network to censor the speech that politicians and government bureaucrats fear

Australia Pushing for Global Internet Censorship

Trump's Trial Painting a Damning Portrait of Him

By: Harry Litman， Los Angeles Times
The scheme at the heart of the charges against Donald Trump in New York is well-known: To keep allegations of an affair with the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels from becoming public, Trump is accused of agreeing to pay her $130,000, camouflaged as payments to Michael Cohen for legal services.

Trump's Trial Painting a Damning Portrait of Him

What's Happening at Columbia Is a Disgrace

By: Jonathan Greenblatt， CNN
On Sunday, I went to Columbia University just uptown from my office to see for myself what is happening there.

What’s Happening at Columbia Is a Disgrace

Biden Says There Are Very Fine People on Both Sides

By: David Harsanyi， The Federalist
Joe Biden can't get himself to unequivocally call out the Brownshirts roaming our elite universities.

Biden Says There Are Very Fine People on Both Sides

Protesting Against Slaughter Isn't Antisemitism

By: Robert Reich， The Guardian
Education is all about provocation. Without being provoked even young minds can remain stuck in old tracks

Protesting Against Slaughter Isn't Antisemitism

Inside the Week That Shook Columbia University

By: Fandos ＆amp； Otterman， NY Times
In a Washington war room, Columbia's president, Nemat Shafik, decided to call police officers to arrest protesting students. The backlash now threatens her leadership.

Inside the Week That Shook Columbia University

How Ohio Became the Center of the Republican World

By: Curt Mills， Am. Conservative
Florida gets all the attention. The GOP power center of the future is closer to D.C.

MAGA 2.0

By: Robert Kuttner， American Prospect
Can J.D. Vance keep it alive after Trump?

Colleges Must Revive Free Press on Their Campuses

By: Lexi Boccuzzi， RCPennsylvania
Elite universities can work toward greater free speech, but things won't improve until legacy campus publications are challenged.

Iran vs. Israel: Outline of a Different Future Is Visible

By: Jonathan Freedland， Guardian
Both seem keen to limit hostilities, and key Arab states are ready to resist Tehran. But real change will require new Israeli leadership, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Biden Turned Whitewater, WI, Into a Border Town

By: Steve Cortes， American Greatness
Although the Badger State is 2000 miles away from Mexico, the fallout of Biden's open border bleeds into the American heartland, literally so in many cases.

Biden Turned Whitewater, WI, Into a Border Town

This Is No 1960's Love-in During Anti-Israel Rallies

By: Michael Goodwin， New York Post
Amid the disruptions at elite universities across the nation, it is tempting to compare the student protests over Gaza to uprisings during the Vietnam War.

This Is No 1960’s Love-in During Anti-Israel Rallies

The Coming Arab Backlash

By: Marc Lynch， Foreign Affairs
Middle Eastern regimes-and America-ignore public anger at their peril

The Coming Arab Backlash

Can Down-Ballot Races Lift Biden to Victory in 2024?

By: Ed Kilgore， New York Magazine
When you have a presidential candidate who is struggling to generate enthusiasm in the party base, it's natural to look for some external stimulation.

Can Down-Ballot Races Lift Biden to Victory in 2024?

Leadership Lied, Said Border Funding Before Ukraine Aid

By: Rep. Byron Donalds， CNBC
Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds told CNBC on Monday that the MAGA supporters who attempted to tie border security funding to military aid for Ukraine were lied to.

Leadership Lied, Said Border Funding Before Ukraine Aid

The Secret Force Defending American Principles

By: Jeremy Tate， RealClearPolitics
The commentary class was collectively shocked when new polling this week showed over 90% of Americans across the political spectrum share core principles. More specifically, the vast majority firmly believe in the importance of fundamental freedoms such as the right to vote, equal protection under the law, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion.

The Secret Force Defending American Principles

Speaker Johnson Got 'Swamped' Over Ukraine

By: Thaddeus McCotter， Chronicles
The return of GOP's minority-party mindset is very likely to be a self-fulfilling prophecy come November.

Speaker Johnson Got 'Swamped' Over Ukraine

I Was Stabbed in the Eye at Yale

By: Sahar Tartak， The Free Press
The school has allowed anti-Israel students to run roughshod over their most basic policies. Yesterday, I paid the price for their inaction.

I Was Stabbed in the Eye at Yale

Groupthink Chorus Emerges at Trump Trial

By: Byron York， Washington Examiner
Covering former President Donald Trump's trial on television is a difficult job.

Groupthink Chorus Emerges at Trump Trial

How Ukraine Wins

By: Kurt Volker， Center for European Policy Analysis
It took far too long, but House Speaker Mike Johnson showed true leadership in bringing Ukraine aid to a vote.

How Ukraine Wins

Biden Should Step Aside, Only Kennedy Can Beat Trump

By: Louis Conte， Substack
And because Kennedy is the only candidate who can beat Donald Trump

Biden Should Step Aside, Only Kennedy Can Beat Trump

A Bipartisan House?

By: Joe Klein， Substack
In my last dispatch, I described the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson as looking like an overmatched pharmacist. Well, he still looks like a pharmacist-but his mildness of affect has brought forth mighty victories in recent days, not just on aid to Ukraine, but also on surveillance funding (the FISA court) and various other spending bills, including the national security appropriation (which passed thanks to pressure from my friends in the bipartisan military caucus, For Country). So I was wrong to call him overmatched.

A Bipartisan House?

MIT President Moves Passover Event Amid New Unrest

By: Susan Crabtree，＆nbsp；RCP
For Jews in the United States and around the world, Monday evening, the beginning of Passover, was supposed to be a time for exchanging blessings of peace, comfort, and hope.

MIT President Moves Passover Event Amid New Unrest

House Foreign Aid Bills Put a Target on Johnson's Back

By: Chris Lehmann， The Nation
After a vote in favor of sending $95 billion to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan passed, far right Republicans are threatening a motion to vacate the speaker of the house.

House Foreign Aid Bills Put a Target on Johnson's Back

The Education Factory

By: Erik Baker， The Nation
By looking at the labor history of academia, you can see the roots of a crisis in higher education that has been decades in the making.

The Education Factory

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