Time for GOP panic?  Establishment worried Carson or Trump might win  —  Less than three months before the kick-off Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them.

BREAKING: Mary Spellman Resigns as Dean of Students  —  At 12:02 p.m. on Thursday, November 12, Mary Spellman resigned as Dean of Students following calls for her resignation after students of color articulated concerns about the Dean of Students office being unsupportive towards students …

Major donors consider funding Black Lives Matter  —  Some of the biggest donors on the left plan to meet behind closed doors next week in Washington with leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement and their allies to discuss funding the burgeoning protest movement, POLITICO has learned.

Inquiring Minds Want to Know...  Nov  —  This afternoon a Mountain View Police Department traffic officer noticed traffic backing up behind a slow moving car traveling in the eastbound #3 lane on El Camino Real, near Rengstorff Ave.  The car was traveling at 24 mph in a 35 mph zone.

In Obama Era, G.O.P. Bolsters Grip in the States  —  LEXINGTON, Ky. — Young, telegenic and news media savvy, State Auditor Adam Edelen looked like a shoo-in for re-election when Democrats gathered in a horse barn here for a buffet dinner late last month.  Most figured he would go on to …

The Self-Destruction of the American University … It's in a way ludicrous to mention in the same breath the childish idiocy at Yale, the Lord-of-the-Flies frenzy at the University of Missouri, and the embrace of National Socialism by the great philosopher Martin Heidegger.

Jennifer Lawrence: GOP 'doesn't support women's basic rights'  —  Actress Jennifer Lawrence says she has trouble staying true to her Republican upbringing because of the GOP's treatment of women.  —  “I was raised a Republican but I just can't imagine supporting a party …

FEC Chair To ‘Daily Show’: Agency Is ‘Enormously Dysfunctional’ (VIDEO)  —  Federal Election Commission Commissioner Ann M. Ravel told “The Daily Show” on Thursday's episode that the FEC is “enormously dysfunctional” and compared the agency's effectiveness to men's nipples.

A Six-Figure Settlement on Campus Free Speech  —  As debates roil over free speech on American college campuses and as mechanisms that critique Israeli policies continue to divide, the universe delivered a perfect enmeshing of both stories in the Land of Lincoln.

Sister Souljah's New Moment  —  The rapper-turned-author and namesake for an iconic political maneuver has long since moved beyond the Clintons  —  Sister Souljah doesn't watch TV anymore—she says the VH1 reality series Basketball Wives, “the show with all of the women who are not wives at all …

Donald Trump Is Upset  —  The candidate says we were unfair to him on trade.  —  Being attacked by Donald Trump is one of journalism's more exhilarating experiences.  We got the treatment on Thursday when he took to various TV shows and Twitter with his usual soft sell and demanded corrections …