Trump’s Victory and the End of the Rainbow Coalition
How the Ivy League Broke America: The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new. - "As Markovits has noted, the academic gap between the rich and the poor is larger than the academic gap between white and Black students in the final days of Jim Crow.
...
"In some ways, we’ve just reestablished the old hierarchy rooted in wealth and social status—only the new elites possess greater hubris, because they believe that their status has been won by hard work and talent rather than by birth. The sense that they 'deserve' their success for having earned it can make them feel more entitled to the fruits of it, and less called to the spirit of noblesse oblige."
A Former Republican Strategist on Why Harris Lost: Inflation, moderation, and candidate effects
Opinion Trump’s great government purge begins: The president-elect’s plan to make the government more “efficient” is going just swell.
Trump aides explore plans to boost Musk effort by wresting control from Congress: The White House could challenge or seek to change a 1974 law that blocks presidents from choosing which programs to fund.
Georgetown bagel shop wins zoning fight. Not everyone is happy.: Despite neighborhood pushback, Call Your Mother deli can continue to serve sandwiches, a zoning board ruled.
After bribery case hearing, White asks D.C. Council to accept his reelection: Recently reelected D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. said the council should not remove him from office before his criminal trial in January 2026.
D.C. truancy, chronic absenteeism drop to lowest levels since pandemic: Truancy in D.C.’s public schools has returned to pre-pandemic levels while chronic absenteeism is at its lowest since schools closed nearly five years ago, new data show.
No comments:
Post a Comment