The Trump-Zelensky meeting explained

March 03, 2025

The Trump-Zelensky meeting explained

If you search for a transcript of yesterday’s White House meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, almost all of them begin in the last 10 minutes of a 50-minute meeting when Vice President JD Vance responds to a reporter’s question about whether Trump believes he is too aligned with Putin. We […]

NPR and PBS’s impending reckoning with DOGE

Public broadcasting’s lobbyists and their television and radio clients huddled in a Washington hotel this week to chart an uncertain future. And who could blame them if they assumed the roar they heard outside came from a chainsaw-wielding Elon Musk, stalking the hotel a la Jack Nicholson in The Shining? The noise, however, was a […]

Linda McMahon should loose the DOGE dogs on Biden’s loan forgiveness

The first weeks of the Department of Education under the second Trump administration have been, in a word, eventful. Even as storm clouds gather over the agency’s continued existence, the new Trump appointees started a slew of investigations of school districts with policies that violate Title IX, directed schools to throw out racially discriminatory diversity, […]

Make ‘influencers’ irrelevant again

If there has been one trend that has become glaringly obvious in 2025, it is arguably the toxicity of right-wing so-called influencers. It is 59 days into the new year, and over that time, this cadre of attention-seekers has regularly embarrassed itself with horrific decision-making, narcissism, and thirst for attention. Look no further than Thursday’s […]

Universities must expel antisemites taking part in illegal protests

Supposed “elite” universities run by liberal bureaucrats have been far too soft on illegal, antisemitic protests and the students who take part in them. It is past time for expulsions to be on the table. Barnard College, an affiliate of Columbia University, expelled two students over a January event in which students disrupted the first […]

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Zelensky’s arrogance crashes into Trump’s ignorance in Oval Office

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance engaged in a stunning argument with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office on Friday. The meeting underlined the personality clash afflicting Trump’s relationship with his Ukrainian counterpart. Where Zelensky is arrogant and incapable of offering charismatic gratitude, Trump is ignorant of Ukrainian concerns and Russia’s […]

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