By: Isabella Simonetti and Anne Steele – wsj.com – November 8, 2024 Podcasts are exploding, TikTok is a news source, and traditional media is shrinking in reach and influence. The percentage of people listening to podcasts in a given month has more than tripled in a decade. In the social-media realm, more than half of TikTok’s users say they regularly...

By: Matt Barnum and Douglas Belkin – wsj.com – November 11, 2024 The president-elect has laid out big changes for America’s classrooms, including expanding school choice and closing Department of Education. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to remake education in the U.S., pledging to exert more control over funding and classroom lessons, to curb what he views as left-leaning tendencies...

Trump devoted an unusual amount of time to accreditation reform. He pledged to compete with incumbent colleges directly by creating a free, online national university called the “American Academy,” and to pay for the American Academy by taxing the endowments of wealthy colleges.

As Americans voted decisively for a candidate who explicitly rejects nearly everything that Bernie Sanders advocates, Vermont’s senior senator insists that the Democratic Party just wasn’t liberal enough. The mindset of the far left seems to be that the working class just needs more of what they just voted against. For Bernie, the answer is always, “more cowbell.”

President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to “launch the largest deportation of criminals in American history.” That is a quote from a Nov. 2 rally in Salem, Virginia, but Trump has said precisely the same thing dozens of times.

On Tuesday night, as Matt covered, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he had selected Pete Hegseth to serve as his Secretary of Defense. The reaction was swift and severe at times, with some denigrating Hegseth’s service by focusing more so on his current role as a Fox News host. Perhaps the most shameful take came from the DNC War Room.

Former Democratic Congresswoman, Democratic National Committee Chair and Lieutenant Colonel Tulsi Gabbard has been nominated as the next Director of National Intelligence.

The Future of Faith and Freedom Right now, there’s a war over culture itself and we’ve been told that we can’t make a difference. That we should give up and adapt to the new normal. But a movement is growing…

November and December will nominally be about confirming judges and kicking the can on must-pass bills. More ambitious efforts probably aren’t happening.

By: Glenn Hubbard – wsj.com – November 12, 2024 Traditional policies like tax cuts, targeted aid and responsible spending can deliver stronger growth. First, by working with Congress, it should build on the successes of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 to make permanent the expensing of business investment. Second, it should increase support for science and defense...