Nikole Hannah-Jones, UNC reach settlement over tenure controversy
Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of The New York Times’s 1619 Project, has reached a settlement with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) following controversy over her tenure status. UNC confirmed in a statement to The Hill that the settlement resolves a legal dispute that arose after she was denied tenure last year for not coming from a “traditional academic-type background.”
Read MoreUS election deniers promoting democracy abroad defies reason
The power of the more than 200-year-old American model of democracy has encouraged people across the globe to fight for their rights and freedoms, often in the face of brutal authoritarians. We have personally seen the impact of U.S. influence through the more than 100 projects that we have helped design to ensure credible and legitimate elections are conducted in countries around the world. Given this experience, we are concerned that efforts to advance democracy abroad may be compromised by board members of publicly-funded U.S. democracy promotion organizations who deny th
Read MoreCNN’s Tapper presses Senate Democrat over Biden-Salman fist bump
CNN anchor Jake Tapper pressed Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) over his defense of President Biden’s interaction with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. “He flew to Saudi Arabia and he fist bumped Mohammed bin Salman, the man responsible according to Biden’s own director of national intelligence for ordering a brutal murder of a Washington Post journalist, killing him and then dismembering him with a bonesaw,” Tapper said, according to video published by
Read MoreJudge rejects Eastman's request to protect phone from investigators
A U.S. district judge denied former President Trump's lawyer John Eastman's motion to implement a temporary restraining order preventing the Department of Justice (DOJ) from accessing his phone. In an opinion issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Robert C. Brack said that Eastman failed to show "a clear and unequivocal right to relief from an immediate, irreparable harm." “Because there is no evidence that the Government has searched the phone … and because the war
Read MoreOpportunity in crisis: The case of Nigeria
As goes Nigeria, so goes Africa. That’s not just hyperbole. Nigeria has over 216 million people, meaning one in five Africans is Nigerian — and with population trends indicating that by 2050 every fifth person in the world will be an African, do the math on what that means for Nigeria’s centrality to the future of our planet and to America’s national s
Read More