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Only one-third of Harvard’s last graduating class felt comfortable expressing their opinions about controversial topics during their time at the College, the University’s 2024 senior survey found, reporting a 13 percent decrease from the Class of 2023. The full survey results are not public, but were partially included in a report issued last week by the Classroom Social Compact Committee, convened by Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra last spring in response to questions about the state of free speech on campus. The committee — co-chaired by Economics professor David I. Laibson ’88 and History professor Maya...

'We must make the Military Academies GREAT AGAIN!' President Donald Trump announced Monday yet another step his administration is taking to eliminate ideologues from the military. In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump vowed to dismiss the Board of Visitors to various branches of the military, citing concerns that they have "infiltrated" American service academies with woke ideology. Trump noted that in order to maintain military dominance, the boards need to be staffed with a new group of appointed individuals. 'We will have the strongest Military in

ANSWER: If we are talking about economics, then yes, it would be better for Canada to merge with the USA for its own benefit. The provinces in Canada have trade barriers among each other. That would be illegal under US law, and Canada’s economy would be much better off. In addition, the mortgage market would change overnight. Where Canadians cannot get long-term mortgages, then they could, and they would be cheaper. However, I would not see Canada as the 51st state, I would see each province as a state retaining their cultural differences. They would also benefit from a unified...

The football coach who led Ohio State to its first national championship in more than 30 years has been picked to be Ohio's next lieutenant governor. Jim Tressel was also the president of Youngstown State and a vice-president at the University of Akron after his coaching career ended following a scandal involving players trading memorabilia for tattoos. On Monday Gov. Mike DeWine announced Tressel's appointment to the position, which became available after he moved Jon Husted to Vice President JD Vance's U.S. Senate seat. Tressel described being selected as "a humbling moment" but admitted this is a new role for...

For eight years, Democrats saw Donald Trump as the most toxic brand in politics, a singular figure who unified their disparate factions and filled their political coffers with campaign contributions. The limits of that strategy became evident in November. They are now turning their attention to a new supervillain: Elon Musk. In the early weeks of the second Trump administration, Democrats are seeking to highlight the prominence of Musk, the polarizing technology mogul, in the new administration. The strategy is the first sign of unified opposition for a rudderless and leaderless Democratic Party. As I recently reported with my colleague...

Hands down the best National Anthem ever to be sung at the Super Bowl. Yes, this even beats out Whitney Houston's version.

Girl Scout cookie season—generally a six- to eight-week period between January and April—is pretty much its own holiday. Once those tables with green tablecloths hit supermarkets nationwide, we start dreaming about towering stacks of coconut-flecked Samoas. Or are they Caramel DeLites? (Wondering why some cookies have different names? Check out 9 Things You Didn't Know About Girl Scout Cookies.) Enthusiasm for their cookies is matched only, we think, by the ferocity of fans' opinions on the best varieties. Which is to say: We know we're playing a dangerous game by picking the best (and worst) Girl Scout cookies. But here...

President Trump said Sunday that he will announce 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports into the United States on Monday. Mr. Trump, speaking on Air Force One on the way to New Orleans to attend the 2025 Super Bowl, said he would also announce "reciprocal tariffs" on Tuesday or Wednesday, which he said will go into effect immediately. This means that the U.S. would impose import duties on products in cases where another country has levied duties on U.S. goods. "If they charge us, we charge them … every country," he said, adding, "If they are charging us...

In this writer’s opinion, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton committed treason surrounding the debacle in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012. In this 1950s, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for treason, for supplying nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviets. Obama, Hillary and possibly several others knowingly provided similar game-changing technology to several of our enemies in bad judgment that amounts to treason. Treason has no statute of limitations. The penalty is life imprisonment, or death. Prosecuting them wouldn’t be Lawfare, because Lawfare involves exaggerated charges or selective prosecution. This is neither. And neither Obama nor Hillary were pardoned. Both...

Democratic strategist David Axelrod criticized former President Biden for missing out on opportunities to reach American voters after he skipped the traditional presidential interview ahead of the Super Bowl during his final year in office. Ahead of Sunday’s game pitting the Kansas City Chiefs against the Philadelphia Eagles, President Trump sat down with Fox News host Bret Baier, where they talked about the game, Canada and the recent Trump administration actions. “A year ago, Biden refused the traditional Super Bowl interview and the unparalleled audience it would have yielded,” Axelrod posted to the social platform X. “That bewildering decision was...

Remember how billionaire Mark Cuban humiliated himself last year by endorsing Kamala Harris and defending her socialist price-gouging proposals? Good times, right? Although he was allegedly planning to step away from politics after the election, he’s back to his old anti-Trump ways, and he really stepped in it again. In recent weeks, Cuban has expressed concerns regarding DOGE's transparency, challenging Elon Musk to do something about it. Cuban isn’t exactly saying anything the radical left hasn’t already said, and of course, the various legal challenges against DOGE have accused Musk of, among other things, not meeting federal transparency regulations. While...

La Niña has returned, cooling the Pacific and disrupting global weather. NOAA confirms it’s weak, likely short-lived, and won’t counteract rising global temperatures. Expect storms, droughts, and shifting climate patterns. La Niña has made a long-awaited return, cooling the Pacific and stirring up global weather patterns. This natural climate phenomenon, part of the ENSO cycle, strengthens trade winds and brings up deep, cold ocean water, altering temperatures and rainfall worldwide. While NOAA confirmed its presence in early 2025, this La Niña is weaker than past events and may not last long. La Niña Arrives in the Pacific After seven months...

"Fact checkers" at the anti-Trump website The Dispatch tried to scold critics enraged over the millions in taxpayer dollars wasted on "Politico Pro" subscriptions, and ended up looking completely ridiculous in the process. Facebook originally hired The Dispatch as part of its old fact-checker squad, perhaps to lend an appearance of balance, as they have claimed. This wasn't balanced. Following the uproar over the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other government agencies doling out $8.2 million on Politico’s wildly overpriced Pro subscriptions between 2024 and 2025 alone, The Dispatch fact-checker Alex Demas followed with a knee-jerk response on...

When the NFL chooses a Grammy-winning rapper, it should ensure he will produce a show that connects with a wide audience. Every rap fan following the drama of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” track, which disses fellow rapper Drake, was dying to see if he would mention Drake during the Super Bowl halftime show. He did. Last week, “Not Like Us” won a Grammy Award for best rap performance as well as for song of the year. In January, Drake filed a complaint in federal court against Universal Music Group, saying the song accuses him of being a pedophile. During...

COINTELPRO, counterintelligence program conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1956 to 1971 to discredit and neutralize organizations considered subversive to U.S. political stability. It was covert and often used extralegal means to criminalize various forms of political struggle and derail several social movements, such as those for civil rights and Puerto Rican independence. COINTELPRO operations were initiated against various organizations, including the Communist Party, Socialist Workers Party (SWP), Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Black Panther Party (BPP), American Indian Movement, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Ku Klux Klan. Tactics included intense surveillance, organizational infiltration, anonymous mailings, and police...

ABT-263, a senolytic drug, accelerates wound healing in aging skin by clearing senescent cells, triggering beneficial inflammation, and enhancing gene activity, offering a promising new treatment for slow-healing wounds. Topical ABT-263 effectively reduced several senescence markers in aged skin, preparing it for improved wound healing. Researchers from Boston University’s School of Medicine have identified a promising treatment that could improve wound healing in aging skin. Their study, published in the journal Aging, reveals that the drug ABT-263 can significantly accelerate skin repair by eliminating old, damaged cells known as senescent cells. As people grow older, their bodies accumulate senescent cells—cells...

Here we go again. There has been a certain amount of news around about an outbreak of an H5N1 influenza. It's gotten the name "bird flu" because it's widespread in wild birds, and it's been running wild through domestic chickens. You may have noticed egg prices. They're not dying because the bird flu is killing them. Instead the Department of Agriculture is killing them so the bird flu won't kill them, leading to almost 140 million birds being culled in the last year. So, failing any other message from this article, let me say: DON'T PANIC (Seriously, is there a...

The Washington Post reported Friday that the United Kingdom’s deep state has demanded that Apple create a back door for them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud—what would be an unprecedented erosion of online privacy and civil liberties. This works because once the UK seizes your data, they can hand that to the Feds in the states, and your Constitutional rights are NOT violated because the US government did not illegally seize it without a warrant. The American Revolution Was Over This Very Issue And Starmer’s Government is Doing What King George...

Significant portion of employers revealed they'd rather hire artificial intelligence robots than bring a Gen Z graduate into the company, according to a new survey. Roughly 37 percent of employers said they'd rather hire AI than a recent graduate, according to a new survey from Hult International Business School.

Elon Musk @elonmusk The F-35 design was broken at the requirements level, because it was required to be too many things to too many people. This made it an expensive & complex jack of all trades, master of none. Success was never in the set of possible outcomes. And manned fighter jets are obsolete in the age of drones anyway. Will just get pilots killed. The US Air Force Secretary admitted in April 2024 that fewer than a third of F-35s built by Lockheed Martin are actually operational. Ex-US Congressman Matt Gaetz labels the F-35 as a "$100M paperweight", pointing...