Debra Saunders

From the Right / Debra Saunders / Mar 11, 2025

WASHINGTON -- Kudos to President Donald Trump's administration for canceling $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University "due to the school's continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students."

"Since Oct. 7, Jewish students have faced relentless violence, intimidation, and antisemitic harassment on ...Read more

Trump's Pick to Head NIH Did Not Follow the COVID Herd

From the Right / Debra Saunders / Mar 07, 2025

WASHINGTON -- When Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya challenged COVID lockdown orthodoxy in 2020, critics glued posters of his face across the campus -- which he saw as an incitement to violence -- and colleagues tried to marginalize him for spreading misinformation.

It didn't matter that he was right.

But it matters now. President ...Read more

USAID v. Trump

From the Right / Debra Saunders / Mar 03, 2025

WASHINGTON -- I don't like the way President Donald Trump abruptly fired swaths of federal workers during his first weeks back in office. But I know why he did it this way.

Trump campaigned on a promise to cut the size of government -- and this go-round, he's actually doing it.

The administration has offered buyout packages, which some 77,...Read more