On Sunday, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, flanked by former presidential candidates, urged Democrats to fiercely oppose the Trump administration and criticized his own party leaders for acting too timidly for too long. In a speech to Democrats in New Hampshire, Pritzker criticized President Donald Trump and charged that Democratic officials have adopted a “culture of…
The University of California, Berkeley became the latest federal target when the Trump administration opened an inquiry into the school on Friday, focusing on foreign money. The inquiry brings up criticism of the university’s collaboration with Tsinghua University in China from a number of years ago. It follows a series of executive orders released by…
Jessica Ramos, a mayoral candidate, wants to oversee the city’s $112 billion budget, but according to The Post, she hasn’t been able to organize her finances and has defaulted on around $80,000 in student loans. Ramos, a state senator from the borough, defaulted on two loans, one for $35,757.21 and the other for $42,550.25, according…
In an effort to prevent Republican President Donald Trump’s administration from targeting Minnesota in the same manner that it is targeting Maine in a federal effort to outlaw transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports, Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison of Minnesota filed a preemptive lawsuit against him on Tuesday. At a news…
In a joint statement released Tuesday, more than 100 American institutions and colleges—including Harvard, Princeton, Penn, Brown, MIT, Cornell, and Tufts—denounced President Trump’s “political interference” in the country’s educational system. The action was taken a day after Harvard University filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, which first declared a $2.2 billion funding freeze and…
In a sharply divided state that is also expected to be a fierce Senate battlefield in the midterm elections, Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., began her Senate campaign on Tuesday, entering what is expected to be one of the most contested Democratic primary contests in the nation next year. In the Democratic primary for the seat…
Ahead of several important elections next year, Arizona Democrats are in danger of upending the state party due to an intraparty fight. In a letter to state committee members, newly elected state Democratic Party chair Robert E. Branscomb II claimed that a number of his personnel decisions within the state party had infuriated Democratic Sens….
The wife of a former senator from New Jersey was convicted by a jury in New York for her involvement in a multi-year bribery conspiracy that involved a Mercedes-Benz, gold bars, and piles of cash. In order to help her husband, former Sen. Robert Menendez, who got expensive gifts in return for political favors, Nadine…
The Department of Education (DOE) made the announcement on Monday that it will resume collection operations on defaulted federal student loans beginning in May. This will bring an end to a four-year moratorium that was established during the COVID-19 crisis. The number of people in the United States who have student loan debt exceeds 40…
Whether or not parents have the right to opt out of their children reading LGBTQ literature in the classroom that are in contradiction with their family’s faith is something that the Supreme Court will explore on Tuesday evening. Parents in Montgomery County, Maryland are asserting that their children’s schools are infringing upon their right to…
