Harvard’s intricate China ties
There are a number of allegations that Chinese funding has excessively influenced the university’s research and academic output
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Thursday
Mission creep has infected the IMF and the World Bank
The Bretton Woods institutions should serve their stakeholders – not the other way around
Trump’s impressive, unsettling digital fortress
The razor’s edge separating justified intelligence from Orwellian overreach grows perilously thin
RFK Jr.’s hill to dye on?
The Health and Human Services Secretary says he has ‘banned’ eight toxic colored dyes
Wednesday
How America can develop its own rare earth elements industry… safely
China’s disregard for responsible mining practices has led to severe toxic conditions American consumers are happy to ignore
What Pete Hegseth and his warfighters learned about Washington
It’s not enough to be on the team, which these dismissed aides insist they still are. You also have to be good at your job
What the Singer Sewing Machine teaches us about student loan repayment
The ‘dollar down, dollar a week’ slogan launched the era of consumer credit
NPR begs for its professional life
The era of federal funding for NPR is about to end
Let students and professors carry guns to class
We owe them their God-given right to self-defense
Tuesday
Will AOC be the next leader of the Democrats?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has worked hard to shed her reputation as a far-left dilettante
Sports are defying Trump’s trans ban
Shame on the Boston Marathon and Nike
Monday
Pete Hegseth’s fight is about more than mere staff personalities
Points of ideological contention lie at the heart of the disquiet at the Pentagon
The Trump administration attempts to correct the record on Covid
Covid.gov gets an anti-Fauci revamp
Freedom is still the Revolutionary War’s legacy
Colonists fought for fundamental philosophy that all persons have natural rights
Trump takes a hammer to the universities
And there are plenty more tools he can use
Saturday
The plight of the Midwest Protestant church
Is Middle America in a crisis of faith?
Inside Russia’s repression of Ukraine’s churches
How worshipers persist in the occupied territories
El Salvador deportation is just another partisan jump ball, says poll
New polling shows the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case doesn’t play to Democrats’ advantage
Friday
Harvard against America
The college, while invoking academic freedom for its resistance to Trump, is very far from upholding that principle
Luigi Mangione and the left’s warped choice of heroes
The Trump ‘resistance’ seems determined to lose
Democrats are doing themselves no favors on El Salvador
Is the Kilmar Abrego Garcia debate really where they want to make their stand against the Trump agenda?
Thursday
How much hope did Trump offer Meloni?
‘There will be a trade deal, 100 percent’
What’s going on in the Pentagon?
Insiders have joined the dots between a clear-out of Hegseth’s top team and internal struggles vis-à-vis Iran
Who should have Elon’s next child?
Natalie Winters is the bookmakers’ favorite
Joe Biden recalls ‘colored kids’ to be hero of their struggle
This isn’t civil rights – it’s performance art
China bans Boeing in targeted trade war shot
Boeing was expecting to deliver 8,485 planes over next two decades
Wednesday
Could this be the last time I ever have to pay my taxes?
President Trump has proposed abolishing income tax for all Americans who make less than $150,000 a year
It’s no mystery how Democrats plan to attack Republicans
The idea is to turn Elon Musk into the equivalent of Nancy Pelosi
Trump should have the power to fire the Fed chair
The current setup is anti-democratic
Is Trump killing the American dream for mom-and-pops?
Trump is hoping to appeal to small-business owners’ patriotic hearts rather than their wallets
J.D. Vance is wrong about Britain and America’s relationship
It’s not ‘reciprocal’ – the US controls the British economy
Tuesday
Bernie Sanders at Coachella shows time is not on the Democrats’ side
The optics looked like a lefty senior citizen in a desperate attempt to win back the love of a nihilistic, Bushwick-dwelling grandchild
The Blue Origin lady spaceflight was desperate, sad and tasteless
What this ‘mission’ represents is a show of wealth and physical flaunting
Mahmoud Khalil is not the victimized cuddlebear the media would have you believe
He’s a dangerous person with clear ideological and political ties to the intifada that Hamas declared on October 7