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Shipman, a former ABC and CNN journalist, has close ties to Biden and Obama through husband Jay Carney Katrina Armstrong (Columbia) and Claire Shipman (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Columbia University interim president Katrina Armstrong stepped down on Friday amid the Ivy League school’s protracted battle with the Trump administration, Columbia announced in a statement. Her replacement,

Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network has received millions of dollars from prominent labor unions whose bosses frequently appear on the controversial activist’s MSNBC show, often without any disclosure about their lucrative financial ties. In the past year alone, Sharpton, who hosts PoliticsNation on the weekends, has interviewed the presidents of five unions that have

Human Rights Watch, an anti-Israel nonprofit funded by George Soros and the Ford Foundation, relied on staffers linked to Islamist terrorist groups to produce research on “Israel and Palestine,” according to a new watchdog report. One HRW staff researcher on “Israel and Palestine” issues, Milena Ansari, worked for an Israeli-designated terrorist group associated with the

The Stacey Abrams-linked environmental coalition that received $2 billion during the Biden administration argued in court that its connection to Abrams is “alleged.” Just one year ago, the coalition’s lead group lauded Abrams for playing “a pivotal role” in the application that secured the funds. The group, Washington, D.C.-based Power Forward Communities, filed a federal

‘We need new leadership in there,’ one Dem hopeful says Hakeem Jeffries (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Left-wing Democratic primary challengers are refusing to back House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) for speaker, as grassroots Democrats have started turning on their party’s leaders. “I wouldn’t vote for Jeffries,” activist Saikat Chakrabarti, who is running against former

Group chats are like fun parties with attractive people—journalists don’t belong. Why anti-racist literature is just like soggy avocado toast. White House reporters embrace performative outrage. Democrats rebrand by making fun of disabled people. Mr. Secretary and Team, At your request, we have successfully converted a Space-Based Hurricane Conductor (on loan from the Jewish Confederacy

Plenty to go around: The Trump administration has revoked $430 million in federal grant money from Columbia University. The school’s president, Katrina Armstrong, doesn’t appear keen on implementing reforms that would put Columbia on a path to restoring its relationship with the federal government. So what should the administration do with the money? We have