University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill was forced to resign over the weekend amid widespread backlash resulting from her testimony on Capitol Hill last week in a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism. That has hardly put the issue to rest. The viral video of questioning by Rep. Elise Stefanik, a New York Republican, and the resulting […]
It’s become a holiday tradition, especially in the red states. Every year, in response to overtly Christian displays put up in government buildings, the Satanic Temple petitions to set up a display honoring Lucifer in state capitols. They usually succeed. See, the Supreme Court long ago created a loophole in the First Amendment to allow […]
Tempe Mayor Corey Woods gave his last state of the city address as a first-term mayor in front of a packed hotel ballroom where he spoke about the city’s significant successes over the past year, reflected on its shortcomings and promised to deliver on some massive initiatives in a second term. The Friday morning event […]
WASHINGTON — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is due to debate California Gov. Gavin Newsom this week about whose state offers a better model for the country, is leading an “assault on free expression in Florida” that is “almost without peer in recent U.S. history,” a watchdog group warned in a pair of reports released Tuesday. […]
College leaders have faced intense scrutiny as they’ve attempted to navigate competing pressures on campus, and critics on both sides of the issue and in both parties say they’re failing. Lawmakers have slammed university officials over their responses, with Republicans taking aim at the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania at a […]
Viola Davis’s acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress began with a thanks to the Academy and this observation: “You know, there’s one place that all the people with the greatest potential are gathered.” Pause. Some viewers may have felt a queasy pang. Was the Fences actress about to give a sequel to Meryl Streep’s Golden […]
President Joe Biden is set to publicly call on Congress to pass tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance for Ukraine as his administration warns of dire consequences for Kyiv if lawmakers don’t act ByZEKE MILLER Associated Press and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press December 6, 2023, 12:09 PM President Joe Biden speaks […]
Rue, a nursing student from Brooklyn, joined hundreds of mostly young pro-Palestinian demonstrators waving flags and homemade signs on a frosty evening in Manhattan at the annual lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. Wednesday’s demonstration was the latest in a series of pro-Palestinian protests and acts of civil disobedience in New York and other cities. They […]