Claremont McKenna College News

With no sign of an end to three mushrooming scandals, the White House acknowledged the rising political dangers on Wednesday by launching a concerted effort at damage control.

The headlines recently have been crying out, " Will Benghazi derail Hillary Clinton's aim for 2016? " Republicans in Congress are intent on destroying Hillary Clinton 's reputation because of the way the Benghazi killing of the American ambassador and others was handled by the State Department when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Afghan women during a civil society roundtable discussion at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul October 20, 2011.

Despite his self-proclaimed history of mental instability and post-traumatic stress, one-time congressional candidate and perennial activist Adam Kokesh is organizing a pro-gun rally in which marchers will walk with loaded rifles into Washington from Virginia.

For many of us, college is the starting point on a journey leading far from home.

The day will be about those students and their successes and accomplishments. Amy Black is hoping to encourage them and give them some words of wisdom in her commencement address.

Francine Prose reads from Anne FrankA s A A'Diary of a Young GirlA before a Claremnt McKenna College audience April 17.

One week ago, I had just gotten back to work with a renewed energy after an inspirational weekend in Sonoma, Calif.

Built in to President Obama's budget proposal for 2014 is a $580 million contingency fund to address the turmoil roiling the Middle East and North Africa, to be spent across the region over the course of the year at the discretion of the White House and the State Department.