3+ week, 2+ day ago   (770+ words) The Trump administration’s ongoing feud with the American Bar Association has come to a head, as the Education Department threatens to strip the organization of its power to oversee law school programs across the country. Career staffers at the department…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (503+ words) Need another metric to show that, for President Trump, “Make America Great Again” means regressing to a 1950s-style white patriarchy? Probably not. But here’s a good-bad one for you, marking the deplorable progress of Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (325+ words) The ACLU is seeking internal Federal Communications Commission records that could shed light on why the agency ordered eight ABC-owned stations to seek early license renewals. In a Freedom of Information Act request, the civil liberties organization asked the FCC…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (784+ words) It’s easy to see how Jason Arday held on to his University of Cambridge professorship until Wednesday, despite facing significant accusations of plagiarism and dishonesty for years. After all, his story fit quite neatly into certain culture war grooves. On…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1405+ words) The Trump administration is preparing a major rollback of federal requirements for Head Start, a change that supporters of the child care program fear could gut its longstanding antipoverty mission. The proposed changes would remove most of Head Start’s 133 pages…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1024+ words) The Walt Disney Co. has intensified its battle with the Federal Communications Commission to keep its ABC television stations on the air. In documents filed with the FCC and released Thursday, Disney accused the agency of waging a thinly veiled…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (490+ words) ABC accused the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday of retaliating against the company because the agency “dislikes the content and viewpoints expressed” on the network’s programs, the latest salvo in the unusual clash between the company and the Trump administration....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (333+ words) The “Morning Joe” crew dedicated part of their Monday broadcast to tearing apart President Trump over his new executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, calling the president and others in his administration “clowns.” “This move at the Smithsonian is, indeed,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (234+ words) President Donald Trump issued a new executive order on Friday demanding warning signs be placed outside the Smithsonian Museum of American History. The order, which is meant to alert visitors that the institution has been taken over by liberal “ideological…...