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New York Times columnists, Gail Collins and Bret Stephens, do a question and answer with each other about Joe Biden’s options for a vice presidential running mate.  They consider po […]

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Faculty around the country are beginning to debate whether they teach online or face-to-face in the fall in those states  where officials are allowing the colleges the option. The […]

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A major issue is evolving with the Democratic Party over what to call an overhaul of police departments around the country in response to protest marchers chants to “defund the p […]

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Calbright College, California’s fully online community college may close if the State Legislature has its way.  Last week, California’s Assembly and Senate leaders moved to el […]

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The University of Alaska’s Board of Regents voted on Friday to eliminate 39 academic departments and reduce or merge five more due to shrinking enrollments, diminishing state funds, […]

 
Colin Powell
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After a week in which President Donald Trump threatened to use military force against protesters, Colin Powell blasted the commander-in-chief for taking steps he says […]

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New York Times’ columnist Maureen Dowd comments today on how our country went from the pride of our first black president to the desolation caused by our current president’s f […]

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Much of the country remains unlikely to venture out to bars, restaurants, theaters or gyms anytime soon, despite state and local officials across the country increasingly allowing […]

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After federal law enforcement agents and military troops lined up for days against protesters outside the White House, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser of Washington responded emphatically on […]

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Claire Bond Potter, a professor of history at The New School, has an op-ed in today’s New York Times, that examines higher education’s future in a post-coronavirus world.  She […]

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I have just finished reading Paula McLain’s 2019 historical novel, Love and Ruin, about Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway’s third wife. Gellhorn is quite a match for Hemingway in […]

Forever Forward
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Last year my wife and I visited France and had the privilege of going to the American D-Day Memorial sites in Normandy – Utah Beach, Point du Hoc, Omaha Beach and the […]

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Rudy Giuliani again demonstrated that he has become unhinged when anyone questions his conduct and veracity.  We hadn’t seen him in a while and I think he should have stayed out of the […]

Senator Lisa Murkowski
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Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, said yesterday that she endorsed the scathing criticism of President Trump’s leadership by Jim Mattis, the f […]

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This past March, faculty at colleges and universities around the country scrambled to move courses online because of the coronavirus pandemic.  The Chronicle of Higher Education […]

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White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany (see video above) yesterday likened President Donald Trump’s church photo-op stunt on Monday to the symbolic images of former B […]

Jim Mattis
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Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis slammed President Donald Trump’s response to nationwide protests over the police killing of George Floyd, writing yesterday in The A […]

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Former President George W. Bush said he and his wife, Laura, are “anguished” by the death of George Floyd and “disturbed by the injustice and fear that suffocate our count […]

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With the coronavirus still looming for the fall semester and probably beyond, some colleges are deciding to move programs online.  The Chronicle of Higher Education had a featured […]

Steve King
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Steve King, the white supremacist congressman from Iowa, was defeated in a Republican primary yesterday, bringing an end to the legislative career of one of Washington’s m […]