Universities face pressure to vet ex-Trump officials before hiring them Marisa Iati, Lauren Lumpkin Richard Grenell, a former Trump administration official, speaks to reporters at the White House in September. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) There is a long tradition of political appointees moving into academia former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice returned to Stanford University as a professor, ex-CIA director Robert Gates was a dean and then president at Texas A&M University, and former secretary of health and human services Sylvia Mathews Burwell is president of American University. But in recent months, some students and faculty have argued colleges should apply more scrutiny to former Trump officials looking to make similar transitions.
Biden faces a tougher task than any president but Lincoln
Jeff Greenfield, The Washington Post
Jan. 20, 2021
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President-elect Biden and Jill Biden stop at a covid-19 memorial in the reflecting pool of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Tuesday night.Washington Post photo by Demetrius Freeman.
When Olympic competitors take to the ice, the diving board or the gymnastics floor, they re not judged simply on what they do but on how hard the routine they re attempting is: The more twists, turns, flips, axels or Lutzes they execute, the higher they score.
There s no such degree of difficulty standard when it comes to measuring how tough a task an incoming president faces. But it s obvious that new chief executives have been met with radically different prospects, ranging from prosperity to catastrophic economic conditions; from eras of good feeling to bitter political division; from peace to war. If we calculate the degree of difficulty for Joe Biden s incomi
Wednesday 20 January 2021
Douglas Emhoff, US Vice President Kamala Harris, Dr Jill Biden and US President Joe Biden look down the National Mall as lamps are lit to honour the nearly 400,000 American victims of the coronavirus pandemic at the Lincoln Memorial
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Between restrictions on account of the pandemic and high security after the pro-Trump riots in the Capitol earlier this month, incoming President Joe Biden’s inauguration will certainly be an atypical affair. There’ll be no mass public gatherings, no lavish Inauguration Balls and outgoing President Donald Trump has refused to even attend – a historical rarity.
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Kamala Harris isn t just a first. She ll be one of the most powerful VPs ever.
Niambi M. Carter, The Washington Post
Jan. 20, 2021
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Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and President-elect Joe Biden in Wilmington, Del., on Jan. 16, 2021.Washington Post photo by Demetrius Freeman.
When Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are sworn in as senators from Georgia on Wednesday, they won t just put Democrats in control of the chamber. They ll also make Kamala Harris the most powerful vice president in years - and the most powerful Black or Asian woman in American history. And that power was granted to her by the hard work of Black women in Georgia.