The Trump administration is casting new scrutiny on foreign funding at U.S. colleges and universities — a push critics say is part of a broader effort to assert control over higher education under the guise of national security. The big picture: The Department of Education is pointing to newly-revealed data on foreign gifts and contracts to schools as a national security issue, which is misleading, Alexander Cooley, a political scientist researching foreign authoritarian influence, tells Axios. Driving the news: The Education Department on Wednesday released foreign funding disclosure data submitted by colleges and universities for 2025, "documenting over 8,300 transactions worth more than $5.2 billion in reportable foreign gifts and…
Across the globe, many cultures have words for love and attachment that don't have a direct English equivalent. Why it matters: As Valentine's Day approaches, borrowing a word from another language could help you say what "love" alone can't. - Between the lines: Axios Finish Line readers recommended that we write about some of these words as part of our ongoing series on untranslatable words . The big picture: English heavily relies on the "L" word to talk about all manner of deep connection — which could say something about our culture's comfort with big feelings. - "It's not necessarily a bad thing," says Ben Kramer, a linguist and course designer at Duolingo. "There's also something beautiful" about viewing feelings for a relative…
Rejoice! The Great Reset is yesterday's news, and the great reject is upon us! What does it mean that the US is withdrawing from the IPCC? That the UN is on the ropes? That Davos was as big of a flop as last year's COP? Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.com joins us to discuss these issues and the sea change that has taken place in public opinion on global warming and globalism in the past year. ARE YOU LOOKING FOR SHOW NOTES WITH LINKS TO ALL OF THE ARTICLES, VIDEOS AND WEBSITES MENTIONED? HOW ABOUT COMMENTS? THEY’RE AT THE CORBETT REPORT WEBSITE! JUST FOLLOW THE TRANSCRIPT LINK BELOW TO GO THERE DIRECTLY. TRANSCRIPT AND LINKS: https://corbettreport.com/the-great-reject-is-upon-us-solutionswatch/
BANNON: Save America Act, voter ID, clean voter rolls, fixing mail-in ballots, is essential. House passes it and Senate won’t even take it up. Rs admit they’re scared of the media. Same Uniparty that blocks election reform blocked E.J. from leading BLS bc he’d go in and change it.
Several athletes have found themselves caught up in controversies over musical choices before and during one of the biggest competitions of their careers.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a big reduction of sky-high tariffs, but critics say he undermined Indian sovereignty and undercut the nation’s farmers.
Why I, along with other Americans, am struggling to get excited about the 2026 Winter Games. The post I’m Already Over the Winter Olympics (And They Just Started) appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture I’m Already Over the Winter Olympics (And They Just Started) Why I, along with other Americans, am struggling to get excited about the 2026 Winter Games. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2010_Winter_Olympics_Johnny_Spillane_and_Todd_Lodwick_in_nordic_combined_NH10km.jpg Credit: Kevin Pedraja There’s only so much curling a man can take. For me, that limit is about 15 minutes, at which point I turned off NBC’s Friday morning coverage of the 2026 Winter Olympics. The winter edition of the Olympics has always been a tough sell for me and most Americans who live outside the gray, brutally cold Northeast.…Open
Washington should help North and South get back together. The post The Promise and Perils of Korean Reunification appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs The Promise and Perils of Korean Reunification Washington should help North and South get back together. The world’s most important divided nation, Korea, hosts one of the world’s most volatile international confrontations. Renewed conflict there could be as intense as the ongoing Russian–Ukrainian war, potentially drawing in the United States, China, Russia, and Japan. Healing the division that led to the Korean War would be the most obvious way to preempt a military rerun—this time with nuclear weapons. Germany’s experience demonstrates the great benefits of reversing artificial national divisions resulting…Open
Dirty Democrat deeds are on display in the latest dump. The post Epstein Revelations You Won’t Read in the New York Times appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Epstein Revelations You Won’t Read in the New York Times Dirty Democrat deeds are on display in the latest dump. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images) I don’t have a team of researchers like the New York Times to review the Epstein files, but I have flipped through them and found a couple of things that you won’t read in the Times—and you definitely won’t see on MS-NOW. 1. Criminal defense lawyer David Schoen sent an informative email to Epstein, saying no one would ever take the Russia investigation seriously because special counsel Robert Mueller had selected a legal team that was a…Open
