NYTIMES (Ross Douthat) - For America’s 250th, Let’s Get Something Clear About Our National Identity
It depends on both ideas and cultural inheritance.
NPR (Sequoia Carrillo) - After years of declines, young students show gains in reading and math
Unscathed by pandemic-era school closures, the nation's 9-year-olds showed progress in math and reading. It's a different story for 13-year-olds, however.
NPR (Paul Boger) - In Nevada, Trump's policies are making things tough for Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo
In one of the most competitive races for governor this year, Nevada Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford will challenge Republican Gov. Joe Lomardo for his office in November.
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THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Ted Snider) - Is the Iran War Tipping the Gulf Away From the U.S.?
The countries that have borne the brunt of Iranian retaliation have an incentive to diversify their security structures. The post Is the Iran War Tipping the Gulf Away From the U.S.? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Is the Iran War Tipping the Gulf Away From the U.S.? The countries that have borne the brunt of Iranian retaliation have an incentive to diversify their security structures. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images) / On June 3, as messages continued to pass between Iranian and American negotiators, the U.S. endangered diplomacy with renewed aggression against Iran. Enforcing the blockade on Iranian ports, U.S. forces fired a Hellfire missile into the engine room of a Botswana-flagged oil tanker. Moments earlier, per CENTCOM, they had “conducted self-defense strikes on an Iranian military ground control…Open
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Scott Greer) - Mike Pence’s ‘Progressive GOP’ Delusion
Republicans’ “leftward” economic drift has been overstated, to say the least. The post Mike Pence’s ‘Progressive GOP’ Delusion appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Mike Pence’s ‘Progressive GOP’ Delusion Republicans’ “leftward” economic drift has been overstated, to say the least. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images) The now-irrelevant Mike Pence still knows how to get back in the news. The former vice president has a new book out warning America of the GOP’s “dangerous” lurch to progressivism. Among his complaints is that he believes his old party is at risk of abandoning the fiscal conservatism it was built on in favor of left-wing economics. “Some right-wing populists have decided that American families need the support of industrial policies…Open
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Phillip Linderman) - The Rocha Spy Case: Espionage and Conflicted Loyalty
The Trump administration must require that dual-national officials renounce any second citizenship as a condition of holding a security clearance. The post The Rocha Spy Case: Espionage and Conflicted Loyalty appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics The Rocha Spy Case: Espionage and Conflicted Loyalty The Trump administration must require that dual-national officials renounce any second citizenship as a condition of holding a security clearance. (Photo by James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images) The U.S. Department of Justice has filed suit to revoke the naturalized citizenship of Manuel Rocha, the former American diplomat exposed in 2023 as a long-running espionage asset of Communist Cuba. Not since Alger Hiss was unmasked as a Soviet spy has the State Department—and the nation—suffered such a profound betrayal by a senior diplomat. Rocha was a…Open
AXIOS (Holly Otterbein) - Platner's big night: 5 takeaways from Tuesday's primaries
Maine Democrats handed progressive firebrand Graham Platner an easy win in Tuesday's Senate primary, looking past his personal scandals in hopes he can oust five-term GOP Sen. Susan Collins in November. Why it matters: Tuesday's results set up what's sure to be a nasty, expensive battle for a seat that will go a long way toward determining control of the Senate. They also illustrated the huge contrasts now animating the political parties: - GOP voters are almost always in lockstep with the leader of their party, President Trump, whose pick for South Carolina governor advanced to a runoff. - As for Democrats, the combination of being desperate for victory and having no one with enough clout to stop an embattled outsider helped set the…
NYTIMES (Reis Thebault) - Nevada Attorney General Wins Democratic Nomination for Governor
Aaron Ford easily outpaced a Washoe County commissioner, Alexis Hill, for the nod to take on Gov. Joe Lombardo in November.
REDSTATE (Jerry Wilson) - Rioting Taking Place in Northern Ireland in Protest Against Knife Attack by Immigrant
DAILYCALLER (Faith Miller) - Left-Wing Billionaire Spends $200,000,000 Of Own Money To Become Governor Only To Lose To Fox News Host
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