Day: August 2, 2025

U.S. Citizenship Test to Get a MAGA Makeover, Made Tougher to Pass

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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

The U.S. citizenship exam is set for a major revamp, with plans to roll out a tougher version, echoing reforms from President Donald Trump’s first administration. Joseph Edlow, the new head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), has criticized the current test—where applicants must correctly answer only six out of ten civics questions from a set of 100 which are pre-provided—as overly simplistic, encouraging memorization over meaningful education of American values. 

The proposed changes could reinstate a more demanding format, possibly requiring 12 correct answers out of 20 questions, as briefly trialed in 2020. This move has ignited controversy, with opponents warning that it may hinder immigrants, especially those with limited English skills, while proponents argue it fosters a deeper understanding of U.S. governance, history and its values. 

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Commentary: Don’t Overlook Hillary Clinton

RealClearWire
Obama and Clinton

Before Barack Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan and 50 other intelligence analysts deceived Americans in the run-up to the 2020 election by warning that Hunter Biden’s laptop had “all the earmarks of a classic Russian information operation” – and before Obama, Brennan, Obama’s FBI Director James Comey, and National Intelligence Director James Clapper falsified an Intelligence Community Assessment in December 2016 to destabilize Donald Trump’s first term – there was Hillary Clinton.

The media’s focus these days is on President Trump’s possible cameo in the so-called “Epstein files” and Obama’s role in advancing the Russia collusion hoax. These stories crossed when DNI Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe released compelling evidence that six weeks before his term concluded, Obama pressed the intelligence community to ignore its previous assessments and instead rely on the sham Steele dossier and an ambiguous and unverifiable sentence fragment to smear Trump and undermine his presidency before it began.

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