Common Ground

Elizabeth Warren agrees with President Trump about something.

The Democratic senator from Massachusetts told Trump on Tuesday that she thinks the White House should take action to stop what she said were discriminatory practices by the country’s biggest banks, according to a letter from her office that was viewed by The Wall Street Journal. 

Since 2016, America’s college campuses have become synonymous with idealogical echo chambers, anxiety, and intolerance. But the cultural tide within higher education is turning.

Sometimes the universe laughs at us. Other times, in the words of famed psychologist Carl Jung, it winks.

Don’t call it a honeymoon. Incoming President Trump’s first 100 days (his second first 100 days) are guaranteed to be filled with rancor, chaos, finger-pointing, and apocalyptic pronouncements daily from political enemies, punctuated by the occasional self-immolation of a subordinate . . . that is, the usual.

But that doesn’t mean he and the Republican-controlled Congress won’t get points on the board in the early months, occasionally with the help of Democrats.

Sen. John Fetterman’s (D-Pa.) open-minded approach to President-elect Trump is fueling questions about his motives and vexing some of his fellow Democrats.

In the wake of Trump’s victory in November, Fetterman has emerged as a critic of his own party’s messaging, while also signaling a willingness to entertain some of the incoming administration’s policy ideas.

When Kay’s two best friends — a married couple she met at work — told her they weren’t voting for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, she believed them. After all, Kay and her friends shared similar values; they all supported issues like reproductive rights and protections for LGBTQ people.

On a warm November day, a group of Columbia University professors set up “listening tables” near the center of campus and hailed students rushing to class, inviting them to stop and talk.

About a dozen students, alumni and faculty members sat down, grabbed some free pizza and chatted about how the protests over the Israel-Hamas war had alienated some of them and inspired others.

Over the past few decades, the religious landscape of America has transformed in ways we couldn’t have imagined. Historically, Christian groups—particularly white evangelical Protestants—wielded significant influence in public life. Leaders like Jerry Falwell Sr., for instance, helped shape social policy through the Moral Majority movement in the late 1970s and 1980s. Their churches often served as de facto community centers, and their leaders’ endorsements were actively sought by political candidates.