Speaking in Iowa at a town hall event Monday, Hillary Clinton was discussing a recent veto of funding by the state’s Republican governor. “These schools throughout Iowa are doing a better than average job,” Clinton said. She then added a caveat, “Now I wouldn’t keep any school open that wasn’t doing a better than average job.”
A study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that nearly all of the increases in college tuition since 1987 can be explained by the increase in student loans made more available by government policy.
An independent investigation found reports of sexual abuse of young boys by UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic credible and said they suggested a broader pattern of abuse that should have been further investigated.
The New York Times published and then removed an explanation for President Obama’s inability to grasp the national mood in the wake of the San Bernardino terror attack, even though it had been judged the highlight of the piece by CNN’s media reporter.
Amanda Marcotte, a feminist writer for Salon, suggested a trick poll question about a non-existent cartoon city, just to embarrass Republicans.
Speaking to the New York Police Department Wednesday, FBI Director James Comey took issue with a New York Times report which suggested San Bernardino attacker Tashfeen Malik had posted material on social media praising jihad.
Two emails received by Hillary Clinton on her private email server were in fact classified “top secret” at the time she received them.
The IAEA’s Board of Governors voted Tuesday to close the longstanding investigation into the past military dimensions (PMD) of Iran’s nuclear research, clearing the way for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action to move forward.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whom Time magazine chose as Person of the Year, largely for her decision to welcome immigrants into the country, said Sunday that multiculturalism is a “grand delusion.”
The State Department has informed the Senate Judiciary Committee that it cannot locate emails belonging to Bryan Pagliano, the former IT director for Hillary Clinton who maintained her private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.
The Washington Post’s fact checker took a look at recent mass shootings and concluded there is no evidence that stronger gun laws would have prevented any of them.
The media has spilled gallons of ink diagnosing the national mood and how it explains the rise and rise of Donald Trump. The consensus view is that Trump is capitalizing on American’s fears (and their bigotry) to stoke his support. But what if that diagnosis is wrong? What if Americans aren’t afraid, but angry?
The Washington Post published an editorial Tuesday afternoon demanding that the GOP renounce the current frontrunner for the nomination Donald Trump, saying his campaign is based on “hatred, bigotry and rage.”
The Cadillac tax was made famous last year by Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber who said it was a ploy designed to fool “stupid” American voters. Now the tax is facing a 2-year delay as part of a congressional budget deal, with leading Democrats helping push the deal forward.
A widely cited list of extremist violence since 9/11 added the San Bernardino shooting last week, making 2015 the dealiest year for jihadist violence since 9/11.
The following is a timeline of events that occurred in San Bernardino, California where a mass shooting took place Wednesday that killed 14 people. All times are PST.
Sally Kohn used her CNN platform Tuesday to argue that the political right is “morally implicated” in Robert Dear’s shooting of three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic. Her argument is both superficial and poorly reasoned.
Sen. Ted Cruz used humor to hit back at Democrats’ abortion policies, by telling his Iowa audience on Monday that there was no danger of conservatives becoming the “condom police.”
A University of Illinois at Chicago student has been arrested and will face charges for an online threat to kill at least 16 “white devils” in revenge for the death of Laquan McDonald who was shot 16 times by police.
Hillary Clinton offered her support for Planned Parenthood on Twitter during an active shooter situation Friday in which several people, including four police officers, were shot.
Black Friday chaos at retail locations across the U.S. started early this year, as many stores opened on Thursday. One of the hotspots turned out to be a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas.
The Washington Post’s aptly named “The Fix” vertical has weighed in on an embarrassing email story involving Politico. The Post labels Politico editor Mike Allen’s offer of a “precisely” pre-arranged interview with Chelsea Clinton—one he promises will not involve any tough questions—a Republican conspiracy theory.
Thanksgiving is a holiday when Americans celebrate their family in the least political way possible, by cooking a big meal and relaxing in front of a football game or maybe a parade. Naturally, the left hates this with a white hot passion.
In a joint press conference held Tuesday with French President Francois Hollande, President Obama adopted the kind of bellicose language he mocked just a week before. It was the latest shift in a long series of reappraisals by the President which began nearly two years ago when he referred to ISIS as the “JV team.”
Starbucks may no longer be a safe space to have a conversation with a friend, not unless you’re prepared to be called out by PC minders who might be eavesdropping nearby.
During his press conference in Turkey this Monday, President Obama suggested his critics talk tough on ISIS but don’t have any real suggestions to offer other than putting “large numbers of U.S. troops on the ground.”
Ben Carson’s comparison of Islamic jihadists, like the ones who killed 130 people in France last week, to “rabid dogs” is now being framed as a gaffe by reporters at the Washington Post.
Professional protesters Johnetta Elzie and Deray McKesson have put together a website, demands.org, listing demands made by various student protest groups at campuses across the country (as well as some in Canada). The website currently contains demands or links to lists from 37 schools.
Health insurance industry expert Bob Laszewski says the threat by insurance giant United Health to quit Obamacare is proof that the program is a “huge failure” with the middle-class.
Police officers in Minneapolis cleared Black Lives Matter protesters from the vestibule entrance to their own police station Wednesday afternoon.
Three student leaders at the University of Kansas face impeachment over their supposed failure to stand in respectful support of a Black Lives Matter group.
Former CIA Director Michael Morell says President Obama’s ISIS strategy is not working, and must become more aggressive are the Nov. 13 attack in Paris.
It’s not every day that Mother Jones magazine publishes something asking progressives to take it down a notch, but that’s what author Kevin Drum did in a piece published Tuesday.
At breakfast hosted by WMUR in New Hampshire yesterday, Cruz showed he may actually be the guy you want to have breakfast with, when he did a line by line reenactment of a scene from ‘The Princess Bride,’ complete with some respectable voice acting.
CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill decided to celebrate Veterans Day by posting an image of women in Cuba’s revolutionary army.
The FBI’s initial investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private server and handling of classified information reportedly has expanded into a large-scale investigation.
The president of the University of Missouri bowed to pressure Monday and stepped down from his position. It was the end of a sometimes ugly pressure campaign which seemed to have only a tangential connection to the actual outrage that started students down this road.
Apparently the protesters’ success at forcing University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe to resign on Monday has already gone to their heads.
Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter published an interview with Edward Snowden Friday in which Snowden described how he wound up stuck in Russia and why being an exile is not what it used to be.
We’ve seen this before: An encounter between a black citizen and police is framed as an example of racial profiling. The story spreads like wildfire on social media and is pointed to as evidence of the need for immediate cultural change.
