Interviewer: David Greene *This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Marjorie Heins is a writer, former civil rights/civil liberties attorney, and past director of the Free Expression Policy Project (FEPP) and the American Civil Liberties Union’s Arts Censorship Project. She is the author of “Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom,…
I agree with Jay Jacobs, state and Nassau County Democratic chairman, that the Democrats must recalibrate their way of thinking “We Democrats have lessons to learn,” Opinion, Nov. 13]. But I believe he underplayed an important factor that caused the red wave and Trumpism. And that was a backlash to the envelope of social correctness…
Flyer for the election discussion event.@MU_JASPERSVOTE/INSTAGRAM By Mary Haley, Marketing Chair & Asst. Features Editor Manhattan University’s Jasper Vote committee held an event to discuss various opinions of how both President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaigns contributed to the results of the 2024 presidential election. After Jaspers Vote, the Manhattan University’s voter…
For three hot days, from July 1 to July 3, 1863, more than 150,000 soldiers from the armies of the United States of America and the Confederate States of America slashed at each other in the hills and through the fields around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. When the battered armies limped out of town after the brutal…
MANILA, Philippines — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday condemned China’s dangerous actions against the Philippines and renewed a warning that the United States would defend its treaty ally if Filipino forces come under an armed attack in the increasingly volatile waters. During a visit to the Philippine province of Palawan next to the…
The future may lie with a carbon tax, private sector innovation, economic inclusion of communities left behind and muscular corporate governance. Businesses will continue to treat ESG problems as business problems. The scale of the defeat of the Democratic party in the 2024 election is staggering. They have lost the House, the Senate, the Presidency…
CNN Chairman and CEO Mark Thompson has made it clear that the network must pivot from its Trump-centric coverage, issuing a stark warning to staff in a recent all-hands meeting. “We cannot become consumed by Trump drama for the next four years. There are other important stories to tell, and we owe it to our…
When President-elect Donald Trump takes office for the second time in January, two of his highest-profile supporters will be handed the keys to a new operation designed to slash government spending and improve its performance. The Department of Government Efficiency, which, despite its name, will likely be an advisory committee rather than an actual department,…
dubai/washington — The U.S. special envoy to Sudan traveled to the African country for the first time on Monday to seek an increase in the flow of aid to millions of people in need and an end to a devastating war. Tom Perriello, who was named Washington’s envoy for Sudan in February, traveled to Port…
The U.S. House of Representatives Ethics Committee is set to meet Wednesday to decide whether to release its investigative report on former Representative Matt Gaetz, who was accused of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use before he was picked by President-elect Donald Trump to be attorney general in his new administration. Several U.S. senators, Democrats…