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Articles by Valerie Richardson

Edwin J. Feulner Jr., founder of The Heritage Foundation and leader of the conservative movement, died Friday at age 83. Photograph: David Hills.

Feulner remembered as man who built Washington’s conservative mind

Edwin J. Feulner Jr., who died Friday at the age of 83, was mourned as a pivotal figure in the rise of the conservative movement, a key architect of the network dedicated to spreading, defending and implementing its principles of freedom and traditional values.

July 20, 2025
Graduating students hold Palestinian flags and chant as they walk out in protest over the 13 students who have been barred from graduating due to protest activities, during commencement in Harvard Yard, at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, May 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Jewish student harassed by anti-Israel protesters sues Harvard

A former Harvard graduate student who was roughed up during an anti-Israel protest has filed an antisemitism lawsuit against the university, accusing school officials of taking no action to punish his alleged attackers and even bestowing honors on two of them.

July 18, 2025
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and Anti-Defamation League participates in the "Addressing antisemitism" panel discussion during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos from Jan. 15 until Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

NEA delegates vote to cut ties with Anti-Defamation League

The National Education Association has voted to break with the Anti-Defamation League, seeking to end a decades-long partnership on fighting antisemitism while offering more evidence that defenders of Israel may no longer have a home on the progressive left.

July 8, 2025
Students walk past the "Great Dome" atop Building 10 on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge, Mass, April 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Lawsuit rips MIT for becoming ‘breeding ground’ for antisemitism

A lawsuit filed Wednesday against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology accused university officials of "standing idly by" as the campus became a hotbed of antisemitism, prompting a Jewish graduate student to abandon the Ph.D. program in the face of relentless harassment.

June 25, 2025