Your Government at Work: FAFSA Financial Aid Version
Remember the political uproar after a ticket-buying surge from Taylor Swift fans caused Ticketmaster’s website to crash? By contrast, consider the muted reaction to the Education Department’s rocky rollout this weekend of the revised Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Even by government standards, the new FAFSA launch has been a fiasco. According to […]
The Pilot Union’s Flying Veto
Some seven million people took to the skies this holiday season, and most seemed to escape last year’s airline meltdowns. But cloudier skies are ahead if pilot unions are allowed to control who can fly. Congress recently extended until March the reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration. It’s the second short-term extension in three months, […]
Javier Milei and Argentina’s Reform Trial
Can a basket-case economy escape from a 25-year socialist decline? That’s the drama now unfolding in Argentina, where new President Javier Milei is pushing a big-bang economic reform to make the once-rich nation prosperous again. The political question is whether his reforms can take hold before the public loses confidence in his efforts. Mr. Milei […]
Bangladesh Shows the Limits of Biden's 'Democracy Promotion'
Finger wagging proved ineffective in preventing the country’s slide toward illiberalism. Source link
How We Squeezed Harvard to Push Claudine Gay Out
The left has spent decades consolidating power across the institutions of American academic life. The crowning achievement of that effort was the diversity, equity and inclusion bureaucracy—constructed to perpetuate progressive dominance of higher education by keeping conservatives out of the professoriate. Claudine Gay was in some respects the apotheosis of this process. Last year, Ms. […]
Can Even Trump Save Biden’s 2024 Run?
President Biden enters the New Year with what looks like a losing campaign trifecta—dismal ratings from three groups critical to his re-election. A Dec. 29 Suffolk University/USA Today poll found Mr. Biden drawing only 63% from black voters, down from the 87% he received in 2020. The same poll found he trailed Donald Trump 34% […]
Our Dog, Who Art in Heaven
The afterlife for pets? Ask Lewis and Chesterton. Source link
Notable & Quotable: Shelby Steele on Affirmative Action
‘Evil is everywhere waiting around the corner, advocating for itself as a moral convenience that will make you a better person.’ Source link
Opinion | Former Harvard President Claudine Gay: This Is About More Than My Mistakes
On Tuesday, I made the wrenching but necessary decision to resign as Harvard’s president. For weeks, both I and the institution to which I’ve devoted my professional life have been under attack. My character and intelligence have been impugned. My commitment to fighting antisemitism has been questioned. My inbox has been flooded with invective, including […]
Junior doctors' strike: Some hospitals request staff return to work
NHS bosses make more than 20 requests for junior doctors to return to work on the first day of a strike. Source link