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Thursday, 8 June 2017 - 10:51pm
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We won't let Wall Street crush our economy again," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Thursday, 8 June 2017 - 3:00pm
Today Wonkhe is hosting our TEF event: 'The Incredible Machine - what next for TEF?'. It promises to be a fascinating day of debate and discussion on teaching excellence - follow it all here.
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Thursday, 8 June 2017 - 9:04am
The election result suddenly seems more unpredictable than previously thought, and the polls are all over the place. But both major parties' manifestos suggest plenty of post-election chaos for universities, says Martin McQuillan.
The post Embrace the chaos, time to choose appeared first on Wonkhe.
Thursday, 8 June 2017 - 9:02am
TEF is just the latest in a long line of public efforts to improve university teaching, and public anxieties about quality have not changed for many years. We take a look at the litany of initiatives in this space.
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Thursday, 8 June 2017 - 9:01am
It's QS World University Rankings time, and UK universities have taken a bit a battering this year.
The post World shut your mouth: It’s the 2018 QS ranking appeared first on Wonkhe.
Thursday, 8 June 2017 - 6:33am
John Nichols
Bernie Sanders traveled to Britain last week, attracting crowds that confirmed that the Vermont senator has emerged as not just the most popular active political figure in the United States but an international phenomenon. It was not Sanders’s intent to intervene in the hastily scheduled and suddenly very exciting British general election campaign that will conclude Thursday.
Thursday, 8 June 2017 - 6:26am
Jennifer Bing
There are two places to visit if you want to know the human impact of Israel’s 50-year military occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory: an Israeli military court and the sitting room of a Palestinian family. I have been to both.
Thursday, 8 June 2017 - 6:25am
Phil Gasper
Can the British Labour Party pull off an astounding come-from-behind victory in the UK general election this Thursday?
The odds still favor Theresa May’s Conservatives (known as the Tories), emerging as the biggest party. But on April 18, when May called the surprise election, her party was over 20 points ahead in the polls, and looked to be heading towards a landslide win.
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Note: On Thursday, June 8, the U.S. House of Representatives will consider the Financial CHOICE Act (H.R. 10), a sweeping financial deregulation measure authored by U.S. Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), chair of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee.
Thursday, 8 June 2017 - 6:01am
Thursday, 8 June 2017 - 5:58am
Senate committees are considering today the nomination of Russell Vought for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. Manar Waheed, American Civil Liberties Union legislative and advocacy counsel, issued the following statement:
Thursday, 8 June 2017 - 5:54am
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Thursday, 8 June 2017 - 5:37am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Less than week after President Donald Trump announced that he was pulling the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, Hawaii rebuffed that stance and became the first state in the nation to enact legislation to uphold the goals of the landmark accord.
Thursday, 8 June 2017 - 5:07am
President Trump announced today that he is nominating former federal prosecutor Christopher Wray to be the next FBI director.
Faiz Shakir, American Civil Liberties Union national political director, had the following reaction:
Thursday, 8 June 2017 - 5:02am
Bernie Sanders
Donald Trump’s so-called infrastructure plan is a huge giveaway to Wall Street that fails to create the millions of jobs we need to modernize our roads, bridges, water systems, rail, airports, levees and dams.
Thursday, 8 June 2017 - 4:43am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Congratulations to Kansas for voting to roll back outrageous tax cuts for the wealthy that devastated the state." —Sen. Bernie Sanders
Thursday, 8 June 2017 - 4:24am
Common Dreams staff
A day before his scheduled public testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, what appears to be former FBI Director James Comey's prepared written "statement for the record" surfaced online Wednesday afternoon and was rapidly being shared among journalists and on social media.
Thursday, 8 June 2017 - 3:38am
Common Dreams staff
Eric Trump, son of billionaire president, draws widespread rebuke and ridicule for saying he perceives dad's opponents as not human
Thursday, 8 June 2017 - 2:12am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Thursday, 8 June 2017 - 1:42am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
In a televised debate just two weeks ahead of the high-profile special election that will fill the vacant House seat in Georgia's Sixth Congressional District, Republican Karen Handel delivered her opponent what one commentator called a "gift-wrapped present" Tuesday night by declaring her opposition to a livable wage.
Wednesday, 7 June 2017 - 11:16pm
Michelle Chen
Confronting the climate crisis shouldn’t be rocket science—to push society to decarbonize, just treat greenhouse gases the way governments treat liquor and cigarettes: Raise the price. With the climate-change movement at an impasse as the Paris climate treaty clashes with Trump’s anti-science agenda, the bottleneck around carbon policy today is more political than technological.
Wednesday, 7 June 2017 - 11:11pm
Neal Gabler
Another week, another disaster, which is the way it goes in America nowadays. Just before Memorial Day, it was President Trump’s unwillingness to reaffirm America’s commitment to Article 5 of the NATO treaty, which calls for mutual protection among the allies. Last week it was his withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, which puts the country in the company of Syria and Nicaragua as the only nonsignatories. The consensus was that the latter decision put ideology above science, and politics above everything.
Wednesday, 7 June 2017 - 11:07pm
Nafeez Ahmed
Theresa May is right. Enough is enough.
A difficult and embarrassing conversation needs to be had about the fact that there is too much tolerance of extremism – by the British state.