Pritzker-backed law requires contract bidders to ‘prioritize their diversity initiatives if they hope to be competitive’ J.B. Pritzker (Scott Olson/Getty Images) A little-known law in Illinois requires private companies to finance the DEI industry if they wish to do business with the state—giving a lifeline to an unpopular industry that currently finds itself on the
The cuts are a part of the administration’s continuing review of the totality of Columbia’s $5 billion in federal funding Top: Columbia activists storm Hamilton Hall. (Alex Kent/Getty Images) Bottom: Donald Trump addresses reporters. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty images) The Trump administration on Friday slashed additional grants to Columbia University totaling approximately $30 million, the Washington Free
Last week, while Trump hosted Ireland’s prime minister at the White House, the parish of St. John the Beloved, just across the river, held its annual Irish-Italian cookoff. The competition is closer than you think—one side is a cornucopia of potatoes, corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes (did I mention potatoes?) and the other side is a sea
The Red Scare—the era from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s during which fears of domestic communism became one of the major issues in American political life—has generated innumerable books and articles dedicated to documenting its alleged victims and searching for those ultimately responsible for the harm it inflicted and the ways in which it distorted
Arkansas Republican senator Tom Cotton, now chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has authored a slender book that punches so much above its modest weight as to make a reader envision some skinny teenager—and Cotton is reportedly 6’5″—taking down Muhammad Ali or, in this case, obese Chinese dictator Xi Jinping. His multigenerational Arkansas roots aside,
And the hands were black that held the gun,and white that held the sword,But the difference was none and the color but one,When the red, red blood was poured. So mused a seminal American hero whose 87-year-long action-packed life is the subject of a masterful new biography by historian Douglas R. Egerton. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Dems in disarray: It’s been true since Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in November, but alas, the party united in opposition to… Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Infuriated Democratic senators, representatives, governors, and grifters online influencers joined forces to denounce their feckless leader, calling Schumer a “GOP sleeper agent” who made a “dirty deal” with