Laurel Duggan

British foreign secretary David Cameron said the war in Ukraine was good value for money during a joint statement Wednesday with US secretary of state Antony Blinken. He made the case for further American support for the war effort, focusing not only on the moral side of the conflict but also the financial side, though [...]Read More...

Cornel West, philosopher turned long-shot independent presidential candidate, tapped activist Melina Abdullah as his vice president on Wednesday. Abdullah has a colourful past. She came to national attention in 2018 after she was charged with numerous criminal misdemeanours related to her activism against Los Angeles police. She had allegedly assaulted a police officer, and a [...]Read More...

Jihadists are worse than the Nazis were, neuroscientist and podcaster Sam Harris has claimed.

After months of campus protests over the war in Gaza, universities are doing something unusual: penalising students for illegal or rule-breaking demonstrations. This week, during a student dinner at the personal home of the Berkeley Law School’s dean, a group of students protested the school’s supposed funding of weapons used in Gaza and refused to [...]Read More...

Commentators are calling for US media company NPR to lose its government funding, in light of resurfaced tweets from the outlet's new leader.

The war in Gaza is threatening to split the Democratic Party. The party's centrists, most notably President Joe Biden, mostly view Israel

Democrats are losing the huge advantage they’ve long held among young voters, largely due to Generation Z’s surprising affinity for Donald Trump. Polls from the past year show a tipping point as Trump has climbed to near-parity with Joe Biden among Gen Z, but the trend has been underway for years. Hillary Clinton had a [...]Read More...

US President Joe Biden signed a bill on Wednesday forcing the sale of TikTok from its Chinese owners, a move that could result in a national ban of the app. It’s an odd partisan inversion. Donald Trump was famously adversarial toward China while in office and tried to ban the app by executive order, but [...]Read More...

Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott is once again back-pedalling on campus free speech in the name of fighting antisemitism.

Amid growing discontent with immigration, polling evidence across Europe and the US points to increasing voter support for a previously unmentionable idea: mass deportations. A majority of Americans, 51%, now support mass deportations, including 45% of Latinos and 42% of Democrats, a Harris poll revealed last week. In an earlier poll, Gallup found support for [...]Read More...