The old corporate playbook — drag your feet, lawyer up, wait for the enforcement action that may never come, and sue if you must — has been replaced by something weirder.
In a memo sent to top schools, the White House said it would tie funding to, among other things, mandatory standardized testing in admissions and a five-year tuition freeze.
With partisan advantage, clashing perceptions of reality and revolutionary readings of the Constitution all in play, the Supreme Court’s cases this year reach far into American politics and culture.
Omar Fateh talks to Mehdi about his brand of democratic socialism, the Islamophobic attacks he’s faced, and how he plans to deal with the Trump administration if he wins the mayoral race.
From the Salem witch trials to McCarthyism and Charlie Kirk’s killing, an exaggerated fear of a particular group has resulted in repression from liberals and conservatives.
Washington’s ‘warrior ethos’ was grounded in decency, temperance and the capacity to act with courage without surrendering to rage. That ideal built an army – and in time, a republic.
With hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed as part of the latest US government shutdown, a scholar explains why such events never occur in the UK.