Bradford Richardson

University of Virginia professor goes on leave after comparing Black Lives Matter to KKK

A University of Virginia professor is taking a leave of absence after his remarks on Facebook comparing Black Lives Matter to the Ku Klux Klan caused a stir.

October 10, 2016

University of Michigan dedicates $85M to ‘diversity’

The University of Michigan has earmarked $85 million over five years in order to promote diversity and inclusiveness on its campuses.

October 10, 2016

Republican lawmakers desert Donald Trump over lewd comments, but voters stay course

Dozens of congressional Republicans disowned their party's presidential nominee over the weekend, saying a decade-old tape of lewd talk about women has cost him the ability to lead and are trying to mount a write-in campaign for Indiana Gov. Mike Pence instead.

October 9, 2016

Mike Lee, Utah senator: Donald Trump would secure his ‘legacy’ by dropping out

Utah Sen. Mike Lee made a personal appeal to Donald Trump to quit the presidential race Sunday.

October 9, 2016

Tim Kaine: Donald Trump’s comments reveal ‘a pattern of sexual assault’

Tim Kaine says Donald Trump's crude comments about women indicate that he engaged in a "pattern of sexual assault."

October 9, 2016

Rudy Giuliani defending Donald Trump: ‘Men at times talk like that’

Rudy Giuliani said the New York businessman's remarks were lewd but not outside of the scope of male banter behind closed doors.

October 9, 2016

Secularists demand Air Force punish colonel who expressed Christian beliefs

A group advocating the separation of church and state is demanding the Air Force rebuke a commander who expressed his Christian beliefs in an interview.

October 7, 2016

Liberal professors outnumber conservatives 12 to 1: Study

Students at America's top universities are nearly 12 times more likely to have a liberal professor than a conservative one in the classroom, a new study shows.

October 6, 2016

D.C. weighs physician-assisted suicide as ‘Death With Dignity Act’ clears first hurdle

Legislation authorizing doctors to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to terminally ill patients cleared its first major hurdle Wednesday in the D.C. Council as the District looks to join a small number of states that have legalized physician-assisted suicide in the past quarter-century.

October 5, 2016

Black Lives Matter tactics prompt questions about true aims of social justice movement

Racism. Sexism. Environmentalism. Classism. What's a social justice warrior to do? Protest without end, apparently.

October 4, 2016

D.C. zoning board denies public hearing on new Planned Parenthood facility

The D.C. zoning board refused Tuesday to hear testimony from community members concerned about the location of a new Planned Parenthood facility across the street from elementary and middle schools.

October 4, 2016

Columbia University to hold no-whites student retreat

There's only one rule for Columbia University students who want to attend an upcoming leadership retreat: you can't be white.

October 4, 2016

Duke University launches ‘safe space’ for men to consider their ‘toxic masculinities’

Duke University is creating a "safe space" for male students to pore over the ways in which their "toxic masculinities" create a harmful environment on campus and beyond.

October 3, 2016

California enacts law penalizing secret recordings at Planned Parenthood

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill into law Friday punishing the dissemination of secret recordings with health care providers, in a bid to protect Planned Parenthood after it was rattled by undercover investigations into the alleged sale of fetal body parts from abortions.

September 30, 2016

Roy Moore, Alabama Supreme Court chief justice, suspended for resistance to gay-marriage ruling

Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has been suspended for the remainder of his term after he was found guilty of ethics violations for instructing lower courts to defy federal rulings on same-sex marriage.

September 30, 2016

Accusations of racism proliferate in wake of police shooting in El Cajon, California

Social justice activists say racism played a role in the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man Tuesday in El Cajon, California.

September 29, 2016

Yale professor slams Christians in expletive-laden tirade

A prominent Christian philosopher was upbraided by the academic community when he presented a paper arguing homosexuality is immoral at a Christian philosophy conference.

September 29, 2016

Kamala Harris, Planned Parenthood teamed up on legislation targeting David Daleiden, emails show

Officials from California Attorney General Kamala Harris' office and Planned Parenthood collaborated to draft legislation targeting the pro-life activist whose undercover videos showed officials for the nation's largest abortion provider discussing the sale of fetal body parts, emails show.

September 27, 2016

Social justice warriors invade University of Kansas debate on ‘safe spaces’

Safe spaces for me, but not for thee. That's the lesson a group of conservative students at the University of Kansas learned, when their Thursday night debate about "safe spaces" was crashed by social justice warriors, who berated their classmates as "racists" and "white supremacists" for holding the event.

September 26, 2016

Terror examined as Washington mall shooting motive as string of attacks stir presidential campaign

Investigators scrambled to piece together a motive in a fatal shooting spree at a Washington mall Friday but would not rule out terrorism after a nearly 24-hour manhunt ended with a Turkish immigrant, who seemed to be in a "zombielike" state, surrendering to police.

September 25, 2016