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Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 11:46pm
Katrina vanden Heuvel
“I just want to state some facts,” Deja Foxx, a 16-year-old activist, told Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) at a town hall meeting in April. “I’m a young woman, and you’re a middle-aged man. I’m a person of color, and you’re white. I come from a background of poverty, and I didn’t always have parents to guide me through life.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 11:34pm
Mattea Kramer
In normal times, Dee from New York would have ordered her copy of The Handmaid’s Tale from Amazon, but these are not normal times. Amazon is on the Grab Your Wallet list, a campaign to boycott retailers that sell Trump family products, which began as a response to the video revealing our now-president’s penchant for grabbing women "by the pussy." Dee bought her book from a smaller retailer instead.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 11:06pm
Juan Cole
Manchester, UK, was hit with the deadliest bomb attack on Monday since a June Saturday morning in 1996, when a massive 3000 lb. Provisional Irish Republican Army blast leveled the city center shopping district to rubble and left 200 wounded. The toll at the Ariana Grande concert so far this morning is nearly two dozen dead and over 60 wounded.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 10:55pm
Steven Singer
As a vocal critic of charter and voucher schools, one of the most frequent questions I get from readers is this:
“Why should I care about other people’s children?”
One reader put it this way:
“Why should my child’s education and safety have to suffer because of difficult and violent students? …it isn’t my responsibility to pay for a miscreant’s education.”
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 11:12am
Common Dreams staff
Updated:
As details begin to emerge of the victims, many of whom are known to be children or young adults, the death toll after Monday night's bombing in Manchester has now risen to twenty-two, according to officials. Fifty-nine people were injured in the blast.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 9:01am
Registrarism is now ten years old! Paul reflects on this momentous occasion with a look at what has changed over the years.
The post A decade is a very long time in university administration (and blogging) appeared first on Wonkhe.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 7:45am
David Schwenk
Chanting “Pass the gifts ban, do your job” and “Drain the swamp,” a boisterous crew of March on Harrisburg participants and members of the Teamsters Union jammed the hallways outside the office of Pennsylvania House State Government Committee Chairman Daryl Metcalfe on Monday to demand action on a bill banning gifts to lawmakers. Many of the same protesters later disrupted proceedings outside a committee room buried deep in the Pennsylvania State Capitol.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 6:44am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
As the World Health Organization (WHO) prepares to select its new director general, public health, food, and science experts are urging the new leader to take action on the issue of factory farms and global threats they pose.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 6:41am
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
After marching 100 miles from Philadelphia to Harrisburg, a group of activists demanding that the Pennsylvania state government "get big money out of the political system" were arrested at the state Capitol on Monday for, as one observer put it, "chanting too loud."
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 6:32am
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
Offering more evidence that President Donald Trump's budget is a multi-faceted blow to everyone but the one percent, the proposal to be unveiled Tuesday would reportedly slash funding for clean-ups at so-called Superfund sites—the vast majority of which are found in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 5:36am
The Trump Administration is expected to release its first detailed budget Tuesday. The budget will contain deep cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency, sustainable food systems and renewable energy, according to reports.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 5:03am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (pdf) Monday that race predominated the Republican redrawing of two of North Carolina's congressional districts.
"This is a watershed moment in the fight to end racial gerrymandering," said National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) chairman Eric Holder, the former attorney general. "North Carolina's maps were among the worst racial gerrymanders in the nation."
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 4:20am
Michael Winship
Here’s a different kind of story about media and politics.
It demonstrates how the monstrosity of a crime a century old still divides and scorches the world. And it’s one more example of how digital technology is changing geopolitics at every level, from interfering with other nation’s elections to the current wave of ransomware cyberattacks and even the release of motion pictures.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 3:56am
Nadia Prupis, staff writer
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Monday will plead the Fifth Amendment and refuse to hand over documents subpoenaed by the Senate Intelligence Committee, according to news reports.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 3:43am
Medea Benjamin
With the world’s media focused on President Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia, it’s curious that the streets of Riyadh were so empty. Unlike most of Trump’s public appearances, there was not a protester in sight.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 3:41am
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Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 3:10am
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the redrawing of two congressional districts by the North Carolina legislature following the 2010 census was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 3:03am
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
Describing McDonald's as "the Donald Trump of corporations," workers and leaders in the Trump resistance movement are joining forces for a massive protest against the fast food giant this week.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 2:52am
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 2:34am
Isaiah Poole
Mark Feuer, the Los Angeles City Attorney who helped hold Wells Fargo accountable for creating millions of fake accounts without customers’ knowledge, now warns against efforts by the Trump administration and Congress to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 2:15am
Jennifer Dalven
Recently, Lori Szala the national director of client services for the Human Coalition, wrote an op-ed in The New York Times attempting to deny a connection between the availability of abortion and the economic well-being of women and families. Ms.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 1:30am
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 1:25am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The Texas lawmakers of the 85th legislative session are on the wrong side of history."
So declared Chuck Smith, CEO of Equality Texas, on Sunday after state lawmakers voted to advance discriminatory legislation, moving forward two anti-LGBTQ bills that critics say are part of a "slate of hate" the legislature is prioritizing as its session draws to a close.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 12:58am
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Indicating that hunger for a people's revolution continues to grow throughout the United States, thousands of Montanans packed rallies across the state this weekend to hear Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) campaign alongside Rob Quist, a career musician who is running for the open U.S. House seat in Thursday's upcoming special election.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 12:51am
Veterans for PeaceOn Tuesday, May 30, at 11:00 am, veterans and supporters will mass at the Lincoln Memorial. Speakers include Veterans For Peace President Barry Ladendorf, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, David Swanson, Medea Benjamin, Chris Hedges, Brian Becker, Col. Ann Wright, Mara Verhayden Hilliard, Michael McPhearson, and Matt Hoh.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 12:31am
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
The Trump administration is attempting to squash an ethics inquiry into former lobbyists now working for government, according to the New York Times.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 12:17am
Chris Hedges
The deep state’s decision in ancient Rome—dominated by a bloated military and a corrupt oligarchy, much like the United States of 2017—to strangle the vain and idiotic Emperor Commodus in his bath in the year 192 did not halt the growing chaos and precipitous decline of the Roman Empire.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 12:14am
Is abolishing tuition fees a good idea or a bad idea? There's no easy answer. We run through some of the main arguments for and against.
The post The pros and cons of abolishing tuition fees appeared first on Wonkhe.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 12:12am
Student loan debt is unlike any other form of financial product. This has made it impossible to have a sensible public debate about tuition fees. David Morris breaks down the paradoxes of our university funding system.
The post A debt of Labour: fees, loans, and the political confusion of university funding appeared first on Wonkhe.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 - 12:08am
Nadia Prupis, staff writer
President Donald Trump's first major budget proposal on Tuesday will include massive cuts to Medicaid and Social Security, among other safety net programs, according to new reports.