Anderson Cooper decided to quit his moonlighting job at “60 Minutes,” but not without a few words interpreted as “a dig” at CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss. In an “Overtime” video reviewing his CBS career, Cooper proclaimed: “There’s very few things that have been around ...
WASHINGTON — Camelot, it’s not. King Arthur, not even close. Donald Trump is a pretender president who doesn’t even pretend to do right by the people. In all candor, this city, graced by garden squares, memorials and museums, feels like a crime scene, with his fingerprints everywhere on ...
We’ve been having a debate about “book bans” in recent years, but given the steep decline in student literacy, the deeper question is how anyone would notice whether a book is available in a school library or not. The New York Times published an eye-opening report on a study by the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford documenting steep declines in student test scores, especially in reading. Over the past 10 years, reading scores have declined in 83% of school districts. What looked like a COVID-driven catastrophe is, instead, part of a long-running trend. Reading ...
Millennials are a cultural infrastructure, like an older overpass everyone depends on, but it’s starting to carry more weight than it was originally designed to hold. We’re trying to move things forward as we absorb tension from both directions. And increasingly, this generation is being ...
China is not merely America’s geopolitical opponent. It is America's geopolitical enemy — and has been since the establishment of the Chinese communist regime in 1949. For decades, American leaders and elites indulged the fantasy that this reality could be softened or reversed. Richard ...
Something strange is happening in Washington. A generation of investors and entrepreneurs who built careers championing private capital and intuitively understood the power of market discipline and limited government have joined the Trump administration, taking charge of hundreds of billions ...
