President Donald Trump addressed a meeting of Republican donors on Saturday during which he commented that the “invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the single worst decision ever made.” Trum […]
Winter Storm Riley is leaving a devastating wake of destruction up and down the East Coast. Nine are dead and two million households and businesses lost electrical power. In […]
I have just finished reading Niall Ferguson’s new book, The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power from the Freemasons to Facebook. Ferguson is an historian and a senior fel […]
I hope all of you who live and work up and down the East Coast weathered yesterday’s storm well. Here in New York, many homes are without power and/or cable service.
Earlier this week, White House Communications Director, Hope Hicks resigned her position and yesterday NBC News reported that national security adviser, H.R. McMaster will be leaving […]
NOTE: Mr. Carvalho accepted and then declined the NYC Schools Chancellor’s position the next day.
Dear Commons Community,
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced yesterday that Alberto M. Carvalho, who rose from […]
Over the past week, a number of companies in the travel industry such as Delta and United Airlines have announced plans to cut their discount ticket policies for National Rifle […]
It appears that for the first time since a federal court ruled last year that the military would have to accept openly transgender people, the Pentagon announced earlier this week that a […]
There is an interesting article in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education describing how the University of Maine has been planning for a projected enrollment drop in students over t […]
Rachel Ida Buff, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, had an article last week in The Nation, reviewing the current state of public higher education in […]
A teacher’s strike is keeping public schools closed for a third day in West Virginia. The state Department of Education’s website shows all school districts are closed in all 55 […]
Thanks for posting your preliminary project brief, Natacha. Your problem statement is strong, and your aim to keep your French students in contact with the language is pedagogically sound. We wonder if you might […]
Thanks for posting your preliminary project brief, Jing. Since this project is now for ITP rather than the Praxis class, you’ll need to think about how to refine the scope into something you can complete on your o […]
Thanks for posting your preliminary project brief, Jenna and Lauren. Your project is fairly far along, and we agree that this semester it would be productive for you to focus on building a plan and a timeline for […]
Thanks for posting your preliminary project brief, Khadeidra. We are a bit concerned about the broad scope of your project, and since you are interested in using this as part of your dissertation research that’s s […]
Coming on the heels of Bill and Melinda Gates’ recent visit to our own Hunter College a few days ago, the Gates Foundation has announced that two senior-level administrators who f […]
Yesterday, Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee released a memo countering claims made by their Republican colleagues, who two weeks ago issued their own memo that […]