Can Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos Really End Common Core?

Dec. 5, 2016
Good morning from Washington, where the fate of Common Core is shaky after Donald Trump's election. In a video report, Kelsey Harkness shows how a new education secretary could undo the national standards. Hours before today's deadline for demonstrators to retreat from land where they're protesting an oil pipeline, federal officials decide to reroute the project. Jamie Gregora reports. From Ukraine, Nolan Peterson chronicles an unusual family Thanksgiving. Plus: Walter Lohman on Trump's Taiwan move, and David Rosenthal on a federal campaign against cats.
News Can Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos Really End Common Core? On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump promised, "We're going to end Common Core." Here's how he could do that. Watch the Video
News Obama Administration Sides With Protesters, Halting Construction of Dakota Access Pipeline The idea that the protest over the Dakota Access oil pipeline is "about the environment" actually is "bogus," Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., says. Read More
Commentary Trump's Phone Call With Taiwan Is a Good Start to Reforming Relations The Trump administration should dispatch a Cabinet secretary to Taiwan in its first year to demonstrate the call with the president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, was not a mistake, but a sign of things to come. Read More
Feature Two Veteran Brothers' Thanksgiving on the Front Lines of the War in Ukraine "I think back to when Drew and I were boys," writes Nolan Peterson. "I imagine these are the sounds of a Florida thunderstorm, and my brother and I—now 30 and 34, respectively—are sleeping in a fort constructed of pillows. Then the hard metal snarl of a machine gun nearby. Reality." Read More
News Lame Duck Will See Fight to Put Export-Import Bank Back on Its Feet Business groups and the White House are urging Congress to use a must-pass spending bill to make the Export-Import Bank fully operational again, setting up a showdown with conservatives who oppose the agency's existence. Read More
Commentary Federal Agents Threaten Pet Owners With a War on Cats It is a crime to "allow" a pet to make a noise "that frightens wildlife" on land administered by the National Park Service. Read More
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