Walter Olson Alarming news for university independence, from the New York Times: “The Trump administration on Thursday demanded that Columbia University make dramatic changes in student discipline and admissions before it would discuss lifting the cancellation of $400 million in government grants and contracts.” In particular, their letter demanded that Columbia 1) “place the school’s Middle Eastern, South Asian, and ...
The House GOP campaign committee is taking aim at more than two dozen Democrats in the chamber as it aims to expand its very fragile majority in next year’s midterm elections. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) on Monday released its initial target list for the 2026 midterms, which included 26 Democrats from coast to coast. Republicans currently control the ...
Americans like the idea of downsizing the federal government but are far from thrilled with how billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are carrying out cuts to the federal bureaucracy, according to new national polling. President Donald Trump, after winning back the White House in last November’s election, created DOGE with marching orders to overhaul and ...
Alex Nowrasteh and Ryan Bourne The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is the biggest domestic policy news of 2025 so far. Established by executive order (EO) on January 20, 2025, and “led” by Elon Musk, DOGE officially occupies the administrative shell of the US Digital Service and was mandated to “implement the President’s DOGE Agenda, by modernizing Federal technology and ...
In recent months, Uzbekistan has found itself at the centre of international attention following a series of troubling events in the country’s judicial system. The trigger for this new wave of criticism has been the case of the alleged assassination attempt on Komil Allamjonov — a powerful former senior official in the presidential administration. As human rights advocate Radha Stirling ...
Americans are growing ever more uneasy about Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff strategy, despite the former president’s fervent reassurances. A fresh survey by the Harris Poll reveals that, out of a list of pressing issues including inflation, healthcare, and immigration, tariffs rank as a top concern for 72% of respondents — a sizeable jump from 61% recorded in mid-January. Trump’s sweeping ...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is wert to meet with senior representatives from eight key regulatory bodies on today, seeking to strip away bureaucracy and accelerate economic growth in the face of fresh warnings about the UK’s outlook. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has cut its forecasts for Britain in 2025 and 2026, citing the escalating global trade conflict ...
President Donald Trump said the U.S. Supreme Court may need to decide if a Clinton-appointed judge can require the administration to reinstate thousands of probationary workers fired as the administration moves to shrink the federal workforce. ‘It’s a judge that’s putting himself in the position of the president of the United States, who was elected by close to 80 million ...
President Donald Trump claimed that former President Joe Biden’s pardons of lawmakers who served on the House Select Committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and others, are ‘VOID,’ alleging that they had been signed via an autopen and that Biden did not even know about them. ‘The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of ...
Big Moves in Sector Ranking The ranking of US sectors continues to shift. At last week’s close, we saw another big shake-up. All defensive sectors are now in the top five. Technology dropped to the last place while Consumer Discretionary tumbled from #3 last week to #9. Within the top five, Consumer Staples gained one position, Healthcare entered at the ...