The Moderate Voice

The police have regularly been called in to squelch student protests over the past century.Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images Stefan M. Bradley, Amherst College Columbia University has become the epicenter of student protests over the war in Gaza. In the following Q&A, Stefan Bradley, a history professor at Amherst College and author of the 2009 book “Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s,” touches on the similarities and differences between the protests of the 1960s and now. How do protests now differ from those of 1968?Similarities lie in students’ opposition ......

Remember when nobody liked an butt-kisser? Remember when the teacher’s pet was the least popular kid in school. What happened? Nobody respects a bootlicking toady but this goes beyond that. This is straight-up cultist. A few Republicans in the House have introduced a bill to rename Dulles International Airport after Donald Trump. I first saw this story on Monday but I didn’t get past the headline because it was April Fools’ Day and I underestimated just how sycophantic and pathetic Republicans have become. Dulles International Airport is in Northern Virginia 26 miles west of Washington, D.C. i......

Trump’s retweet of a 2020 Dan Scavino tweet These are some of the latest headlines describing how our ally, Ukraine, continues to be mercilessly pounded by Russia as its air defense is “at the edge of its capacity,” while the GOP orchestra, led by maestro, wannabe emperor Trump, is hideously fiddling. • Russian forces conducted the second largest combined drone and missile strike of 2024 on the morning of February 7…Russia targeted Kyiv City during the February 7 strike for the third time thus far in 2024…. • International analysts say the onslaught of Russian missiles, stockpiled for months, ......

Supporters of President Donald Trump climb the west wall of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana Wayne Unger, Quinnipiac University The plaintiffs seeking to remove former President Donald Trump from Colorado’s 2024 presidential election ballots filed their brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 26, 2024. They asked the court to uphold the ruling by Colorado’s highest court that Trump engaged in an insurrection against the United States and, accordingly, should be disqualified from the presidential election under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Trump “refused to accept ......

The pundit editorial class — as well as too many political reporters — focus on President Joe Biden’s age. What they don’t do is point out that Donald Trump is only 3.5 years younger. Nor do the New York Times, Wall Street Journal or Washington Post — or any TV news show — ever feature a quote from a Trump campaign event that’s more than a few words. That’s because after Trump strings words together, they look and sound like they were the output of a random number generator. At a campaign rally in Claremont, New Hampshire, Saturday afternoon, Trump said that Barack Obama was president. Not tha......