Can Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos Really End Common Core?
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Dec. 5, 2016 |
| Good morning from Washington, where the fate of Common Core is shaky after Donald Trump's election. In a video report, Kelsey Harkness shows how a new education secretary could undo the national standards. Hours before today's deadline for demonstrators to retreat from land where they're protesting an oil pipeline, federal officials decide to reroute the project. Jamie Gregora reports. From Ukraine, Nolan Peterson chronicles an unusual family Thanksgiving. Plus: Walter Lohman on Trump's Taiwan move, and David Rosenthal on a federal campaign against cats. |
NewsCan Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos Really End Common Core?On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump promised, "We're going to end Common Core." Here's how he could do that. |
NewsObama Administration Sides With Protesters, Halting Construction of Dakota Access PipelineThe idea that the protest over the Dakota Access oil pipeline is "about the environment" actually is "bogus," Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., says. |
CommentaryTrump's Phone Call With Taiwan Is a Good Start to Reforming RelationsThe Trump administration should dispatch a Cabinet secretary to Taiwan in its first year to demonstrate the call with the president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, was not a mistake, but a sign of things to come. |
FeatureTwo Veteran Brothers' Thanksgiving on the Front Lines of the War in Ukraine"I think back to when Drew and I were boys," writes Nolan Peterson. "I imagine these are the sounds of a Florida thunderstorm, and my brother and I—now 30 and 34, respectively—are sleeping in a fort constructed of pillows. Then the hard metal snarl of a machine gun nearby. Reality." |
NewsLame Duck Will See Fight to Put Export-Import Bank Back on Its FeetBusiness groups and the White House are urging Congress to use a must-pass spending bill to make the Export-Import Bank fully operational again, setting up a showdown with conservatives who oppose the agency's existence. |
CommentaryFederal Agents Threaten Pet Owners With a War on CatsIt is a crime to "allow" a pet to make a noise "that frightens wildlife" on land administered by the National Park Service. |
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