The Biden administration on Monday unveiled a new student loan forgiveness plan aimed at offering relief to more than 30 million borrowers. The new plan would cancel up to $20,000 of accrued interest for every borrower regardless of income, with complete forgiveness of outstanding interest for low- and middle-income borrowers participating in an income-driven repayment
An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon early on Monday killed a field commander in the heavily armed Lebanese group Hezbollah, as the United Nations warned that shelling was spreading and urged a halt to the violence. Hezbollah and the Israeli military have been exchanging fire across Lebanon’s southern frontier in parallel with the Gaza war, adding to
Bowman celebrated an anti-Semite and cop-killers on ‘wall of honor’ Jamaal Bowman speaks at a 2018 AERO Conference (Alternative Education Resource/YouTube) As a middle school principal, New York Democratic congressman Jamaal Bowman advised against teaching about “white” historical figures like George Washington, Jesus Christ, and Santa Claus. Instead, he used his position to elevate a
Miles Davis’s 1959 album Kind of Blue is the best-selling instrumental jazz album of all time. As the music-buying public is rightly suspicious of jazz, that makes Kind of Blue the kind of jazz that people who don’t like jazz can stand. This was not what Davis had in mind when he convened a six-piece
There are two mistakes we can make about life in North America in the first century of English colonization. The first is the common one which many, if not most, of us grew up with, that the English settlers of the Atlantic seaboard at first lived happy and fraternal lives with the tribes of that
The first shocking thing about Nicholas Shakespeare’s biography of James Bond creator Ian Fleming is that it is over 700 pages long and includes almost another hundred of notes. The second shocking thing is that all of them are necessary. Shakespeare does go on a tangent or two, but in providing a complete portrait of
President Joe Biden on Monday kicked off the annual White House Easter Egg Roll by asking the crowd to “say hello to oyster bunnies.” He then continued his string of inappropriate interactions with children by sniffing a baby who attended the event. The infamous ghost handshake also made an appearance this week following a speech