Garland urges public service in Harvard address: 'Democracy is under threat'
Attorney General Merrick Garland urged Harvard University's graduating class to go into public service to combat the ongoing turmoil in the U.S., saying that “democracy is under threat.” Delivering his commencement address to the university’s graduating class of 2020 and 2021 on Sunday, Garland spoke about how he saw citizens offering to volunteer in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. “Earlier in my career, I spent
Read MorePelosi tells Brown University graduates to unite in deeply divided country
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) invoked Abraham Lincoln and John Lewis during her commencement speech at Brown University on Sunday, calling on graduates to help unify the country. "I urge you to bring this spirit of unity to whatever you do,” Pelosi said. “It’s no secret that you graduate in a country deeply divided socially, politically, culturally. And there’s even more dangerous factions [that] seek to dispense with democracy altogether, but graduates, you are our hope," she added. Pelosi also accepted an honorary doctorate during the ceremony, joking with
Read MoreBidens meet families of Uvalde school shooting victims
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Sunday met with survivors of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, as well as families of the victims of the massacre. The Bidens traveled to Uvalde on Sunday, five days after a gunman entered Robb Elementary School and killed 21 people, including 19 children. The meeting with families was closed to the press. Biden is slated to meet with law enforcement and first responders in Uvalde before departing Texas for Washington, D.C. The first stop after the president and first lady arrived in Uvalde was to to the school whe
Read MoreWhy this inflation is different
Commentators and politicians are frightening Americans about inflation without understanding and explaining why it burst on the scene last summer as COVID-19 receded. A growing consensus among inflation hawks says that the surge in prices is the result of the Federal Reserve’s failure to raise interest rates and slow the economy soon enough. Worse, the hawks tell Americans that the Fed must squeeze harder and that its “mistake” could lead to a long period of “stagflation” like the one the U.S. endured from 1974 to 1981. It is important to respond to this foolishness. T
Read MoreFormer DHS counterterrorism chief: Law enforcement response to Texas school shooting a 'failure'
Former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) counterterrorism chief John Cohen said on Sunday that law enforcement’s response to the active shooter situation at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas was a “failure”. “I mean, John, it was a failure,” Cohen told ABC’s “This Week” moderator Jonathan Karl. “I've been in law enforcement almost 40 years I am proud of my profession. I respect the men and women who are out there each day trying to make our community safe. But at the end of the day, we had 21 people die, we had 19 children die. We had people potentially d
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