In this article I offer new evidence about something readers of Academic Questions already know: The political registration of full-time, Ph.D.-holding professors in top-tier liberal arts colleges is overwhelmingly Democratic. Indeed, faculty political affiliations at 39 percent of the colleges in my sample are Republican free—having zero Republicans. The political registration in most of the remaining 61 percent, with a few important exceptions, is slightly more than zero percent but nevertheless absurdly skewed against Republican affiliation and in favor of Democratic affiliation. Thus, 78.2 percent of the academic departments in my sample have either zero Republicans, or so few as to make no difference.

My sample of 8,688 tenure track, Ph.D.–holding professors from fifty-one of the sixty-six top ranked liberal arts colleges in the U.S. News 2017 report consists of 5,197, or 59.8 percent, who are registered either Republican or Democrat. The mean Democratic-to-Republican ratio (D:R) across the sample is 10.4:1, but because of an anomaly in the definition of what constitutes a liberal arts college in the U.S. News survey, I include two military colleges, West Point and Annapolis.1 If these are excluded, the D:R ratio is a whopping 12.7:1.

SANTA FE, TX—In the hours following a violent rampage in Texas in which a lone attacker killed eight individuals and seriously injured several others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Friday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said Ohio resident Erica Webb, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this individual from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what they really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”

A shocking new report has revealed over 5,000 new cases of Female Genital Mutilation were recorded between 2016-2017 in the United Kingdom.

Reported by anti-extremist group Quilliam, the damning dossier states that though “5391 new cases of FGM were recorded in the UK […] Britain has failed to bring a single perpetrator of FGM to justice.”

The report aims to “highlight the dire situation of FGM conviction rates in the UK” to “act as a catalyst for proactive action on implementing FGM laws in Britain.”

Muna Adil, the author of the report, states:

“The fact that we’ve been collecting detailed FGM data for some years now and still haven’t seen a single case brought to justice is a shame and utter disservice to the thousands of young girls and women who have undergone this horrific practice. Dis-empowered survivors lack the resources, knowledge, and voice to bring charges on their perpetrators, which makes it our duty as civil society to push for a harder, more active stance on this issue, rather than the passive law currently in place. We already have the data to indicate which communities and boroughs are high-risk situations – there is no credible reason for us to be shying away from this issue.”

The report, with a foreword by FGM survivor Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is available for free download here

On Friday, movie director Rob Reiner (Stand By Me, The Princess Bride), appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," where he told substitute host Nicolle Wallace that the Trump Administration is the first time that networks like Fox and Sinclair Broadcasting "aligned with a president of the United States."

He went on to claim that the networks never aligned with John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, or Barack Obama.

Reiner launched into a tirade about the unproven Russia conspiracy surrounding the White House.

A jubilant Nicolas Maduro addressed a crowd of svelte supporters outside the presidential palace in Caracas late Sunday evening, inviting his defeated opposition to join him in dialogue.

The Venezuelan socialist leader was re-elected to a second six-year term in a landslide victory, gathering 68% of the votes and beating his nearest challenger, Henri Falcon, by more than 40 points.

Before the end of voting, Falcon rejected the election as illegitimate and called for a new vote. The candidate claimed his campaign received thousands of complaints indicating Maduro’s party set up “Red Points” at nearly 90 per cent of polling stations across the country intended to pressure the poor to vote for Maduro, reports the Associated Press.

The election “without any doubt lacks legitimacy and we categorically refuse to recognize this process,” Falcon said.

The starving, oil-rich socialist nation has been in social collapse in recent years due to authoritarian rule and mismanagement of the state-run oil industry. Venezuelans continue to face widespread food shortages and limited access to medicine.

One report showed in 2017 the average Venezuelan lost 24lbs in body weight as Maduro actually got fatter. Recent online videos have revealed food riots and gangs of people beating grazing cattle to death with rocks.

Maduro embraces the election results and says he’s ready to talk with opposition leaders.

Venezuela’s military has also supported the election results. On Sunday the military’s top command, Gen. Padrino Lopez said, “Venezuela has won again, peace has won again, our democracy has won again.”

Google’s unofficial motto has long been the simple phrase “don’t be evil.” But that’s over, according to the code of conduct that Google distributes to its employees. The phrase was removed sometime in late April or early May, archives hosted by the Wayback Machine show.

The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs released new emails on Monday night that allegedly show that Obama administration officials coordinated with each other to help CNN run a damaging story on President-elect Donald Trump based on salacious and unverified information contained in a politically-motivated dossier financed by Trump's political enemies.

Here are a few of PolitiFacts' fact-checks on some of the inflated numbers pushed by CNN and gun control groups like Everytown for Gun Safety:

• Mostly False: 18 U.S. school shootings so far in 2018 and 18 in rest of the world over past 20 years
• 14 school shootings since 2010 in Florida? Not really
• Have there been 74 school shootings since Sandy Hook? A closer look at a tricky statistic

And here's The Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro fact-checking CNN's most recently debunked claim following the Santa Fe shooting:

• CNN Says There Have Been 22 School Shootings This Year. That’s A Lie.