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Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 10:44pm
Pat LaMarche
Lack of critical thinking: it’s killing us. And if you get alarmed by the headline of a May 22, Sacramento Bee article, it will continue killing us.
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 10:35pm
Diane Ravitch
Of all the corrupt, unqualified, and extremist characters Donald Trump has tapped to lead his administration, none has generated the tsunami of liberal outrage whipped up by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 4:11pm
Accompanying a new Unite Students report on student resilience, Jenny Shaw outlines a new model for considering how students adapt to new environments and can be best supported through their studies.
The post Student resilience – it’s all about empowerment appeared first on Wonkhe.
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 6:56am
Robert Reich
For years, conservatives warned that liberals were “defining deviancy downward.” They said that by tolerating bad social behavior, liberals in effect lowered what was deemed acceptable behavior overall – allowing social norms to decline.
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 6:52am
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
Thousands are planning to march on McDonald's in Chicago on Tuesday evening, demanding $15 an hour and union rights from the fast food giant they've dubbed "the Donald Trump of corporations."
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 6:22am
Michael Linden
President Trump’s budget proposal is an affront to decency, economics and, at a basic level, math. It is full of both broken and false promises. It forces those who have the least to suffer the most and those who have the most to contribute the least. It is, in a word, unconscionable.
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 6:12am
Douglas Blackmon
A version of this post first appeared on Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Douglas A. Blackmon’s Facebook page.
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 6:02am
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Open Internet proponents who have been fighting the Trump administration's rollback of net neutrality protections, which has been enacted at the bidding of the telecom industry, said Tuesday that Comcast is now threatening legal action saying the website Comcastroturf.com is infringing on its trademark.
As the organization Fight for the Future quipped on Twitter, "You can't make this stuff up."
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 5:41am
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
As expected, President Donald Trump's budget calls for deep cuts to public education while bolstering school choice schemes, leading top education advocates to decry the plan as out-of-touch and "manifestly cruel to kids."
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 5:36am
Benjamin Dangl
It is fitting that while President Trump is traveling the world, sealing a weapons deal with Saudi Arabia, he would drop his own kind of bomb on the American people: his budget proposal for the coming fiscal year, titled, of course, “The New Foundation for American Greatness.”
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 5:26am
Earlier this morning fast food workers and community gathered in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood for a mock groundbreaking ceremony and press conference at the new location of McDonald’s Headquarters. Wearing hard hats and construction vests, workers and community leaders spoke out, sharing their visions of what the “new” McDonald’s needs to be.
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 4:56am
Center for Biological Diversity
The Trump administration’s detailed 2018 budget proposal, released today, contains unprecedented funding cuts for the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency and increased spending for a border wall.
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 4:55am
The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Georgia, and Kuck Immigration Partners LLC took legal action today to restore Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals protections to DREAMer Jessica Colotl.
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 4:30am
Nadia Prupis, staff writer
A federal appeals court on Tuesday reversed a previous decision by a lower court that dismissed a challenge to the National Security Agency's (NSA) mass surveillance operations, scoring an "important victory for the rule of law."
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 3:40am
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 3:17am
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats on Tuesday refused to confirm or deny allegations that President Donald Trump had asked him to "push back" against the FBI's investigation into possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.
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Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 1:45am
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
President Donald Trump officially unveiled his budget on Tuesday and made clear that the candidate who rose to power with a promise to protect the downtrodden and working class had swapped that rhetoric for "hardline rightwing economics" that prioritizes military might and insulating the one-percent at the expense of all else.
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 1:26am
Jitu Brown
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos seems not to hear the fierce protests of parents, teachers and school officials over school closings and charter expansion in New York, Chicago, Oakland, Detroit and other American cities. How else to explain her continuing tone-deaf comments praising the glories of school choice? In truth, school choice does not exist in most black and brown communities in the United States.
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 1:18am
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
Palestinian activists rallied and demonstrated during U.S. President Donald Trump's brief visit to the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Tuesday, calling for a "Day of Rage" to amplify the voices and demands of hunger-striking prisoners who have been protesting since mid-April.
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 1:14am
A federal appeals court today unanimously reversed a part of a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the National Security Agency’s mass interception and searching of Americans’ international internet communications.
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 12:56am
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 12:38am
Nadia Prupis, staff writer
A watchdog group on Monday stepped up its efforts to get the Trump administration to answer for its military strike on Syria in April.
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 - 12:37am
Richard Eskow
In public, leading Democrats blame outside forces like Russia and former FBI Director James Comey for their losses in 2016. But privately, many acknowledge the party needs a new direction.
The Democrats’ massive losses at state and congressional levels cannot be blamed on WikiLeaks, Comey or even Trump. Something clearly needs to change, and fast.