On Saturday, President Donald Trump appointed Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame Law professor and U.S. Circuit judge to the United States Supreme Court. As Trump’s prospective third appointee to the court, Barrett is expected to undergo an expedited confirmation process as Senate Republicans work to confirm Barrett ahead of the November elections. Barrett is...
On Monday morning we woke up and said to each other “let’s see the President today.” After learning the leader of the free world was to host a campaign rally in Toledo, Ohio, only an hour away from our small college town, we cancelled all evening plans. Despite failing to get approved for both press...
I was booed for the first time in my life on Monday. I hadn’t given a speech — I’m no public figure, celebrity, or politician. In the eyes of many Trump supporters I was something far worse: a reporter. Our journalism class with Pulliam Fellow Chris Bedford took a field trip to the press gallery...
Hillsdale faculty applauded and criticized aspects of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech, as well as Democrat reactions. Trump spent much of Tuesday night pointing to American history and claiming that America is stronger and better than it has ever been. He also touched on themes of Manifest Destiny and the last frontier....
The current era marked by political unrest and division between parties and branches of our government is nothing new to our history. What is different, however, is the president’s understanding of his role in current circumstances. In his own way, President Trump is getting to the root of what people really want. The American people...