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Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 11:50pm
Eugene Robinson
The statements President Trump issued on Twitter in recent days lead to a chilling conclusion: The man is out of control.
I know that is a radical thing to say about the elected leader of the United States, the most powerful individual in the world. And I know his unorthodox use of social media is thought by some, including the president himself, to be brilliant. But I don’t see political genius in the invective coming from Trump these days. I see an angry man lashing out at enemies real and imagined — a man dangerously overwhelmed.
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 11:50pm
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 11:44pm
Elizabeth Sawin
Less than a week after President Trump announced the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, cities and states across the US have adopted the goals of the agreement as their own. Supporting those cities and states (and the grassroots coalitions that hold them accountable) provides a significant opportunity for progress on climate change and for making gains on health, equity, and economic vitality.
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 11:38pm
Diane Ravitch
Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos’s proposed budget for the US Department of Education is a boon for privatization and a disaster for public schools and low-income college students. They want to cut federal spending on education by 13.6 percent. Some programs would be eliminated completely; others would face deep reductions. They want to cut $10.6 billion from existing programs and divert $1.4 billion to charter schools and to vouchers for private and religious schools.
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 11:32pm
Katrina vanden Heuvel
“It’s an unbelievably complex subject,” President Trump said in February, discussing the Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 11:24pm
William E. Connolly
Dear Donald Trump:
I write this short note to you shortly after you have moved to cancel participation of the United States in the Paris Climate Accord. I know that many believe you are a stumbling, bumbling narcissist who does not think deeply about anything but himself and the mood of the base he is so eager to maintain. But I see things just a bit differently.
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 11:17pm
John de Graaf
When Hillary Clinton gave the commencement speech at her alma mater Wellesley College on May 26, her message of “Onward Together” reflected that of another Wellesley icon, Katharine Lee Bates, the woman who wrote the words to America the Beautiful. I believe that the story of Bates and her song can inspire, inform and unite us in these harsh and polarizing times.
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 9:03am
Universities love a good committee meeting, but is the art of effective minute-writing dying out? Paul Greatrix writes in defence of an important but undervalued practice.
The post Just a minute: the lost art of minute-writing appeared first on Wonkhe.
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 9:02am
Many university leaders have been uneasy about the Conservatives' plans to enforce school sponsorship. Anne-Marie Canning argues that instead, universities should embrace the challenge to help raise attainment in schools.
The post Should universities raise school attainment? Yes, and here’s why appeared first on Wonkhe.
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 9:01am
Troubling news about universities' record on student safety and sexual violence has become all-too-common, but we need to start focusing on the good work that institutions are doing to tackle it. Lucy Winrow introduces ProtectED, a new accreditation scheme.
The post Setting standards on student security and wellbeing appeared first on Wonkhe.
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 6:32am
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 6:27am
Andy Rowell
It was meant to be Donald Trump’s greatest triumph. Yet it will prove his greatest failure. It was meant to send a strong powerful message to his supporters at home. But it backfired at home and abroad and left the President more isolated than ever before.
All Presidents are defined by events, by their speeches, by their actions, and we already have much to judge Trump on; but the President’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement last week will be a stain that shames this Presidency to its end.
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 6:25am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Regional officials are jockeying for the Trump administration to dump an Obama-era ban on uranium mining that its supporters applauded for having closed "the door on rampant industrialization of Grand Canyon's watersheds."
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 6:22am
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke had a busy day on March 23, at least according to his official Twitter account.
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 6:16am
Kenneth Peres
Trump’s rhetoric of America First and Make America Great Again are evocative and form great bumper stickers. But these slogans don't quite encapsulate all of the Trump movements' analysis of either the cause of or proposed solutions to our current economic problems.
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 5:06am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Two days following the terrorist attacks in London and three days before the culmination of what has become an unexpectedly competitive election, several U.K. political leaders are demanding that a government study reportedly implicating Saudi Arabia in the spread of violent extremism be made public.
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 4:39am
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 3:48am
Sam Husseini
On March 11, 2004, just a few days before a critical election, a series of nearly simultaneous bombs exploded on four commuter trains in Madrid, killing over 190 people. Before the bombing, the Socialist Party (PSOE) was about five points behind in the polls, but it ended up winning by five points. The party promised that if it won the election, Spain would get out of Iraq in six months. That happened after only five. I can find no evidence of any Middle East–related terrorism in Spain since, though there apparently have been thwarted plots.
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 2:26am
Center for Biological Diversity
The Trump administration today issued draft authorizations to five companies to search for oil off the Atlantic Coast — from Florida to Delaware — using loud seismic airgun blasts that hurt whales, dolphins and other animals. The exploration activities are the first step to opening the Atlantic to new oil drilling.
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 2:21am
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 2:17am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
A recent study found that maternal death rates in Texas were the highest in the United states, and among the worst in the developed world, with the number of such deaths doubling from 2010 to 2012.
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 2:13am
Hunter Blair, Josh Bivens
It has been declared “infrastructure week” by the Trump administration. On the face of it, that should be excellent news. The U.S. economy would benefit enormously from an ambitious increase in public investment, including infrastructure investment.
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 1:06am
Ramzy Baroud
There is a saying that goes: “Be careful what you wish for, for you may get it.” This has been Israel’s dilemma from the very beginning.
The Zionist movement, which held its first conference in Basel, Switzerland 120 years ago, wanted Palestine but not the Palestinians. They achieved this objective 50 years later, in what Israel termed as its ‘war of independence.’
Then, in 1947-48, the Palestinian homeland was captured, but millions of Palestinians were cruelly evicted following a harrowing war and many massacres.
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 12:55am
Juan Cole
Donald J. Trump
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue/ Mar-a-Lago Florida (Golf Course)
Dear Prime Minister May and Mayor Khan:
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 12:26am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
As commentators considered how a "normal" U.S.
Tuesday, 6 June 2017 - 12:20am
The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a landmark case on whether the government needs a warrant to access a person’s cell phone location history. The American Civil Liberties Union is co-counsel in the case, Carpenter v. United States.