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This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Even before the White House announced last month that President Joe Biden would deliver one of his two commencement speeches this graduation season at Morehouse College in Atlanta, the prestigious historically Black college was seeing signs of the same political unrest that was bubbling up at dozens of colleges and universities across the country. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] But Morehouse is no Columbia.

Several allies of former President Donald Trump have shown up at the Manhattan courthouse to support him while he’s on trial. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Attendees at Trump’s hush-money trial have so far included the Republican House Speaker, several members of Congress, state attorneys general, and two of Trump’s former presidential primary opponents.

We seem to have entered the end stage of American culture, at least on American college campuses.

Is it just me, or do “Germany” and “socialism” not belong in the same sentence? Frankly, socialism doesn’t belong anywhere except as an encyclopedic example of an “idiot plot.”

Democrats don't care about Vietnam veterans but they do watch the ethnic vote, and suddenly, their insensitivity is showing.

And guess what that means for the consumer?