POLITICS

Canceled Classes, Rescheduled Midterms, and Stress Baking: How Elite Universities Are Coddling Students Grieving Over Trump’s Victory

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After Donald Trump’s historic reelection sent despair rippling across college campuses, grieving professors at America’s top universities canceled classes, rescheduled exams, and promised to forgive poor grades. Schools offered students milk, cookies, puzzles, Legos, and “destress sessions.” Several professors at Columbia University and its sister school, Barnard College, offered such accommodations for their students, emails

The Biden Error

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Column: The events of 2020 seemed epochal. Trump’s election exposed them as aberrant. Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Joe Biden in 2016 (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) “Don’t forget all that we accomplished,” President Biden said during his Thursday address on the election. “It’s been a historic presidency. Not because I’m president, [but] because of what we’ve done.

Federal Agency Accuses White House Official of Violating Hatch Act

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Advisor Neera Tanden illegally used her X account to promote solicitations for Democratic candidates, said the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. A federal investigative agency is requesting disciplinary action for Neera Tanden, who serves as one of President Joe Biden’s domestic policy advisors, over her allegedly violating a law that prohibits solicitations for partisan political