https://hotair.com/feedHotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 25 Aug 2026 13:55:26 -0400<![CDATA[Today the Washington Post is reporting that Black Studies departments across the country are shrinking. The Post doesn't definitively blame this on any one reason but suggests a combination of factors are at play. One of them is the Trump administration's pushback against DEI. But the more significant reason seems to be low enrollment. It's difficult to run an entire department for a handful of students.]]>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:20:41 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Academia]]><![CDATA[Black Lives Matter]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/08/25/black-studies-departments-are-shrinking-at-colleges-nationwide-n3818346<![CDATA[When you have nothing to lose, you roll the dice and hope to get lucky. That rarely works out in casinos, nor does it succeed much in appeals of criminal convictions. But when all you have is money and time, like Ghislaine Maxwell, it doesn't hurt to give it a try.]]>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:40:57 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Ghislaine Maxwell]]><![CDATA[Jeffrey Epstein]]><![CDATA[Judges]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/08/25/federal-judge-to-ghislaine-maxwell-thanks-for-proving-the-jurys-point-n3818341<![CDATA[Jason Arday's story was riveting for many reasons, but it blew up because it was perhaps the best example of how an obsession with DEI corrupts cultures in our elite institutions.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:00:31 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Academia]]><![CDATA[Islamic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[Terrorism]]><![CDATA[Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/08/25/jason-ardays-fraud-is-not-the-biggest-cambridge-university-scandal-n3818340<![CDATA[This is just nutty enough - it should work.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Maine]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/08/25/finally-a-write-in-campaign-i-can-get-behind-n3818314<![CDATA[I wonder whether this is a meltdown. Is this stream of profanity-laced whining and idiocy a normal day on Hasan Piker's Twitch stream?&nbsp;]]>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:40:30 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/08/25/piker-melts-down-as-michigans-jewish-dems-fight-back-n3818337<![CDATA[Never in recorded history has an area stricken by famine one year been faced with an obesity crisis the next.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:42 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Fake News]]><![CDATA[Gaza]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Palestinians]]><![CDATA[United Nations]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/08/25/exposing-the-gaza-grift-n3818338<![CDATA[Get ready for 83 seconds of pure ... ick.]]>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]><![CDATA[Jesse Watters]]><![CDATA[Michigan]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]><![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/08/25/todays-deep-question-why-is-el-sayed-so-curious-about-watters-junk-n3818321<![CDATA[It's almost too easy to take a swipe at the hypocrisy of the Democratic Socialists of America.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/08/25/are-there-any-working-class-people-in-the-dsa-n3818276<![CDATA[Tabs were on my side when I was surfing down the web, it was all site site site ...&nbsp;]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:00:13 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/08/24/mondays-final-word-n3818304<![CDATA[This is the kind of crazy story that could only happen in San Francisco. It started on May 31 when a man later identified as Norris Reed III fled from police, crashed his car and wound up shooting a female officer.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:20:45 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Homelessness]]><![CDATA[Law and Order]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/08/24/sf-homeless-shelter-employees-arrested-for-hiding-shooter-from-cops-n3818318<![CDATA[Holy SMOKES!]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:40:50 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/08/24/breaking-scotus-hands-trump-a-win-on-mail-in-ballots-n3818316<![CDATA[It has been ten days since Jason Arday died by suicide, and there are still articles being published today in which people on the Left blame the Right as if this incident were somehow akin to the Charlie Kirk assassination. Let's start with this one which is completely over the top.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:00:03 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Academia]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]><![CDATA[Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/08/24/the-left-will-never-stop-blaming-the-right-for-jason-ardays-death-n3818317<![CDATA[The WNBA is 30-years-old, and for 29 of those years, almost nobody knew it existed.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:20:50 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]><![CDATA[Woke]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/08/24/who-knew-the-wnba-actually-matters-now-n3818309<![CDATA[A decade ago, Priscilla Chan set up a school in East Palo Alto which was designed to help children who were being held back by the fact that they grew up in a poor part of town. The "Primary School," set up by Chan was funded by large grants from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, was to provide students with all sorts of free services including free tuition and free medical and dental care. Back in 2015, the hype was about how much this new experiment would change education.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:00:21 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Healthcare]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/08/24/the-zuckerbergs-school-experiment-gets-shut-down-n3818313<![CDATA[Back in January, as border crossings dropped to near-unbelievable and infinitesimal numbers considering what they had been merely 12 months before, the Trump administration was already on the hunt, looking for the next way to tighten up on illegal aliens in the country.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:20:27 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Law and Order]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/08/24/another-judge-another-injunction-rubios-visa-freeze-vacated-n3818310<![CDATA[I've been a fan of Matt Orfalea ever since I first came across him through Matt Taibbi's writing.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:40:31 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Black Lives Matter]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Media Bias]]><![CDATA[Riots]]><![CDATA[Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/08/24/ok-i-need-to-see-this-documentary-n3818306<![CDATA[Everyone involved in this dispute agrees on one point. The Washington Post fired Karen Attiah over her online commentary about Charlie Kirk. The only real dispute is whether the quality of that online commentary rose to a fireable offense for a "journalist" working for the newspaper.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Bluesky]]><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk]]><![CDATA[Free Speech]]><![CDATA[Washington Post]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/08/24/ygbkm-arbitrator-orders-wapo-to-rehire-journalist-who-falsified-charlie-kirk-quote-n3818297<![CDATA[At this point I've written about Wildberries a number of times. It's basically the Russian version of Amazon, an online marketplace backed up by dozens of massive warehouses/shipping facilities located around the country. Over the past month, Ukrainian drones have burned quite a few of those buildings to the ground.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:20:28 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Russia]]><![CDATA[Ukraine]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/08/24/what-is-ozon-and-why-is-it-burning-n3818308<![CDATA[September 6th is fast approaching, and depending on what side of the cordon sanitaire you are on, you are either dreading it or giddy with anticipation.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:40:36 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[European Union]]><![CDATA[Germany]]><![CDATA[Polling]]><![CDATA[Syria]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/08/24/afd-is-riding-the-east-german-vespa-on-high-hopes-n3818305<![CDATA[Last week Karmelo Anthony got a hearing before a new judge to see if he would be able to get a new trial. Getting the previous trial judge removed from the case was seen by some as a step in the right direction by Anthony's supporters.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:20:13 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Judges]]><![CDATA[Texas]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/08/24/no-new-trial-for-karmelo-anthony-n3818301