Much like the fabled Santa Ana winds, the California primary blew in from the east and enveloped the state in a prolonged spell of hot air. But whereas the climatological Santa Anas can spark wildfires and ruin, Tuesday’s political windstorm did little to alter the California landscape.
Government-funded research runs the gamut from investigations of the most basic physical and biological processes to applied research on more immediate needs.
In an exclusive today, the Washington Post reports that two Russian intelligence agencies hacked the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) database which included opposition research on Donald Trump. The Post says “The intruders so thoroughly compromised the DNC’s system that they also were able to read all email and chat traffic.”
Though it sometimes appears that Education Secretary John King didn’t get the memo, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) represents a significant devolution of authority from the federal government to the states.
In response to my post criticizing Jimmy Carter for his advocacy of keeping prostitution illegal, Stanley Greer wrote me the following (and gave me permission to reprint.)
The professor of European Studies at Oxford University talks to Index on Censorship about his new book Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World.
Michael McFaul, the former U.S. ambassador to Russia, said Tuesday that relations between the United States and Russia are “worse than at any time since the Cold War.”
Two former ambassadors on Tuesday presented Congress with very different views on how the United States should handle recent aggression from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, has allowed Mr Donald Trump to seize upon a familiar issue he has used to great advantage — the threat of Islamist militants and his plan to limit Muslim immigration to the United States, offering him what could be a crucial moment to re-boot his sputtering presidential campaign.
House Speaker Paul Ryan told a room of Republican donors and elites in Park City, Utah last weekend that he endorsed Donald Trump to keep the Republican Party together.
