Don Williams 
Last night marked the culmination of Kevin McCarthy’s reckoning. The consequences of pandering to his party’s extreme factions, engaging in desperate deals, and breaking promises were finally catching up with him. The House Republicans’ failure in the 2022 elections was the ultimate price to pay. Since Donald Trump assumed control of the party, Republicans have …
No one has witnessed a presidential election quite like the one coming in 2024. Anticipated to be a repeat of the 2020 election, with the sitting president facing off against a former president, this race has surprised many with its crowded primary. On the Republican side, over a dozen candidates are vying for the nomination. …
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The weekend of September 30 marked a concerning shift in international support for Ukraine, not only in Washington, D.C., but also in two Eastern European countries that were once strong supporters. On that day, former U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached a last-minute budget deal to avoid a government shutdown that was conditional on eliminating …
The office of speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant. With those words, spoken in the House on Tuesday afternoon, Kevin McCarthy’s reign as speaker came to an inglorious end. McCarthy is the first speaker in history to be removed by his own party; eight Republicans voted …
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Thirty years ago today, the U.S. military was involved in a brief but brutal battle in Somalia. In a series of firefights over two bloody days, 18 members of America’s most elite Special Forces and hundreds of Somali militiamen were killed. This was the Battle of Mogadishu, which the journalist Mark Bowden (now an Atlantic …
Americans are losing their faith in higher education, with over half of respondents in a recent Wall Street Journal poll claiming that a bachelor’s degree is not worth the cost. This sentiment is especially prevalent among young people, who see college as a risky financial gamble. However, it is important to consider the economic reality …
When I made the decision to read California’s 1,000-page proposal to transform math education in public schools, I quickly realized that even unproven ideas could become official instructional policies. In 2021, the state released a draft of the California Mathematics Framework (CMF), which aimed to provide new opportunities in science and tech careers for students …
By the time the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, many Americans had already opened their wallets to protest. In the approximately 24 hours after the Court’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization leaked early, ActBlue, the Democratic fundraising platform, raised a staggering $12 million. Reproductive Freedom for All also …