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Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
‘Democracy in crisis?' DC universities offering Trump-themed class this fall
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Generate Key Takeaways Universities in the Washington, D.C., area are responding to President Donald Trump's second term by offering classes analyzing the presidential office and Trump's impact. The Washingtonian reported that at least three colleges will be offering a Trump-themed class for the upcoming fall semester. George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government will offer a "US Democracy in Crisis" course that will allegedly focus on how the United States is no longer a democracy under Trump. Professor Jennifer Nicoll Victor previously taught the course in the Spring of 2022, but said this year's class will focus on how the U.S. has "moved to a regime type that is not classified as a democracy," she told The Washingtonian. Washington, D.C., area students held a protest in April against the Trump administration and DOGE cuts. College Offering 'White Supremacy In The Age Of Trump' Course As President-elect Returns To White House Johns Hopkins University's Center for Advanced Governmental Studies will offer a course titled "The Presidency" which will examine how the "executive branch has become more significant in US culture and politics during the second Trump administration," the outlet reported. Read On The Fox News App At George Washington University, a political science course on "The American Presidency" will analyze the "controversies and disruptions" of the second Trump term and the "impact and dysfunctionality of the Trump administration and the likelihood for its success long term," according to lecturer Michael Goff. It's not just Washington-area colleges offering courses centered on Trump's second term. Fox News Digital previously reported that Smith College, a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts, offered a 4-credit course titled "White Supremacy in the Age of Trump" this spring semester. Click Here For The Latest Media And Culture News Vice President Harris' supporters shed tears during her concession speech at Howard University last November after she lost to President Trump. Last fall, Fox News Digital reported on several universities across the country that offered "safe spaces" to students and faculty following Trump's election victory. Students at elite schools like Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy were reportedly offered treats like "milk and cookies" and "hot cocoa," as well as "Lego" toys and "coloring and mindfulness exercises" to get their minds off the election results, the day after Trump won. Professors at Harvard University also reportedly canceled classes that day, made attendance optional or extended assignment deadlines for their students. Original article source: 'Democracy in crisis?' DC universities offering Trump-themed class this fall
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Jim Acosta takes shot at Trump supporters, says only half the country cares about the truth
Liberal ex-CNN anchor Jim Acosta took a shot at Donald Trump supporters in an interview published Friday, suggesting that half of the country was uninterested in the truth. Speaking with The Washingtonian shortly after his exit earlier this year from CNN and launching his new Substack video outlet, Acosta said news outlets should put more emphasis on fact-checking Trump in his second administration. "I think it does make a difference," he said. "Half the country still wants to hear the truth." Acosta said he used to tell college students that they shouldn't go into journalism because of how much time they lose, but how he's pleading for "reinforcements." Associated Press, Reuters Rip Trump White House For Cutting Wire Service Slot In Press Pool "When I go talk to college students, I used to say, 'Don't go into this business. You're going to lose your weekends and your holidays, and your mother's going to say, You don't call me anymore.' And now I tell them, 'Please come into this business, because we need reinforcements,'" he told The Washingtonian. Read On The Fox News App Acosta didn't trouble to hide his feelings about Trump while at CNN. As a White House correspondent, he often sparred with Trump and his press secretaries in melodramatic fashion and editorialized during his reporting, such as scolding Kim Kardashian for being at the White House to discuss criminal justice reform, complaining about the term "Wuhan coronavirus" being xenophobic, and reciting the poem from the Statue of Liberty. He was moved off the White House beat and onto an anchor job as President Joe Biden took office in 2021. Shortly after Trump's return to office this year, he was offered an assuredly low-rated midnight slot and turned it down, leaving CNN in January. Click Here For More Coverage Of Media And Culture In a "town hall" he held with a series of liberal media figures this week, including former CNN colleague Don Lemon, Acosta referred to the "show" Trump and his team put on every day as "sh---y." "We have to teach Americans, teach people to be more media-literate. What Donald Trump does is a show," Lemon said. "Every single day you have to realize from morning until the end, 'til midnight, it's a show that is produced like a television show. Every single day." "A pretty sh---y one, but yes," Acosta replied, to laughter from the article source: Jim Acosta takes shot at Trump supporters, says only half the country cares about the truth
Fox News
18-04-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Jim Acosta takes shot at Trump supporters, says only half the country cares about the truth
Liberal ex-CNN anchor Jim Acosta took a shot at Donald Trump supporters in an interview published Friday, suggesting that half of the country was uninterested in the truth. Speaking with The Washingtonian shortly after his exit earlier this year from CNN and launching his new Substack video outlet, Acosta said news outlets should put more emphasis on fact-checking Trump in his second administration. "I think it does make a difference," he said. "Half the country still wants to hear the truth." Acosta said he used to tell college students that they shouldn't go into journalism because of how much time they lose, but how he's pleading for "reinforcements." "When I go talk to college students, I used to say, 'Don't go into this business. You're going to lose your weekends and your holidays, and your mother's going to say, You don't call me anymore.' And now I tell them, 'Please come into this business, because we need reinforcements,'" he told The Washingtonian. Acosta didn't trouble to hide his feelings about Trump while at CNN. As a White House correspondent, he often sparred with Trump and his press secretaries in melodramatic fashion and editorialized during his reporting, such as scolding Kim Kardashian for being at the White House to discuss criminal justice reform, complaining about the term "Wuhan coronavirus" being xenophobic, and reciting the poem from the Statue of Liberty. He was moved off the White House beat and onto an anchor job as President Joe Biden took office in 2021. Shortly after Trump's return to office this year, he was offered an assuredly low-rated midnight slot and turned it down, leaving CNN in January. In a "town hall" he held with a series of liberal media figures this week, including former CNN colleague Don Lemon, Acosta referred to the "show" Trump and his team put on every day as "sh---y." "We have to teach Americans, teach people to be more media-literate. What Donald Trump does is a show," Lemon said. "Every single day you have to realize from morning until the end, 'til midnight, it's a show that is produced like a television show. Every single day." "A pretty sh---y one, but yes," Acosta replied, to laughter from the audience.
The Independent
04-03-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
JD Vance puts Virginia home on the market for nearly $2 million
JD Vance is reportedly selling his home in Northern Virginia for $1.7 million. Vance bought the five bedroom, three-and-a-half bath property for $1.5 million in 2022 following his election to the U.S. Senate. The home is located in Del Ray, an eclectic neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia. Northern Virginia tends to skew more liberal, and opinions were mixed about Vance's presence in the neighborhood. "I'm not excited, but I'm not upset either. I mean, he's a human being and he has the money and he likes Del Ray. If anything, it tells you a lot more about the neighborhood than it does about JD Vance," a resident told FOX 5 in 2024. Another resident told the outlet they believed that "everybody has a right to live wherever they want to live, and as long as he's a kind and contributing member of the community, then I'm glad he's here." That patience was tested in the lead up to the 2024 election when the Judy Lowe Neighborhood Park near his home was barricaded for his security, according to FOX 5. At the time, someone chalked "Harris 24" and "not going back" on the barricades surrounding Vance's home. Another demonstrator yarn-bombed a tree in his yard with a knitted sign that read "respect our rights," and there was more than one protest near his home. "I'm not the only person who was sort of baffled and, to be honest, a bit dismayed that someone who had so vocally expressed contempt for the kinds of people who live here and the kind of values that we hold had decided to be our neighbor," the yarn protester told The Washingtonian. "Knowing that this person has been really publicly antagonistic to LGBTQ people, to immigrants, to women's rights — it felt appropriate to publicly declare what we stand for in this community." Since the election, Vance and his family have moved to the vice president's residence at 1 Observatory Circle in Washington, D.C. The vice president's house is located at the U.S. Naval Observatory, and was originally the home of the observatory's superintendent, according to the White House. Vance is originally from Middletown, Ohio, and — following the success of his book Hillbilly Elegy and its subsequent Ron Howard adaptation — he later bought a historic home in Cincinnati in 2018. That house is a five bedroom home on 2.29 acres overlooking the Ohio River, according to real-estate website Redfin. At the time, Vance paid just over $1.4 million for the house. A few years before that, Vance bought a row house in Washington D.C.'s Capitol Hill neighborhood, and has since rented it out. A resident renting the home told The Washington Post in July 2024 that she thought the Vances were good landlords. "I love this house. I love this block. I want to be here for a long time," the renter told the paper. "So I want to be a good tenant. And I have great landlords — Usha's great."
