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Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 11:30pm
I am delighted to announce that from this morning, David Kernohan will be joining Team Wonkhe as Associate Editor. David has supported and written for Wonkhe since our inception, both as a featured author and supporting analysis behind the scenes. Many in the sector will already be aware of him as one of the sector’s... read more
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 11:28pm
Jon Queally, staff writer
Offering a testament to the hunger for insight and guidance for understanding—and resisting—the presidency of Donald Trump, the newly-published book by journalist and progressive activist Naomi Klein surged to the top of Amazon's best-seller list on the day of its publication.
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 11:14pm
The ministerial reshuffle proved to be less dramatic than expected, as Jo Johnson holds onto his post as Minister for Universities and Science in DfE and BEIS.
The post From Jexit to Jemain – Jo Johnson stays as universities minister appeared first on Wonkhe.
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 10:42pm
Marty Lederman
There’s been a great deal of noise from some of the President’s confidants over the past 48 hours suggesting that he might (try to) remove Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Most alarmingly, Trump friend Chris Ruddy told Judy Woodruff on PBS NewsHour on Monday night that “I think [the President is] considering perhaps terminating the special counsel. I think he’s weighing that option.”
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 10:37pm
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Anti-Trump resistance groups are ramping up pressure on Senate Democrats to use all the tactics in their arsenal to resist Trumpcare as Republicans attempt, in secrecy, to hammer out the legislation and rapidly bring it to a vote before the July 4 recess.
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 10:34pm
Thomas S. Harrington
I just can't believe what happened in the British elections.
I can't get over the fact that that when a politician with real convictions honed over 40 years of political life—generous and forward-looking convictions rooted in an understanding of how social progress for the many has actually been engineered in previous times—speaks out unencumbered by fraidy-cat image doctors, people actually respond enthusiastically.
It’s shocking, absolutely shocking.
Why am I so confused?
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 3:00pm
It's a revolution for public information about higher education as employment and salary data for graduates is released in full for the first time. We'll be bringing you coverage, insights and analysis all day here.
The post LIVE: Longitudinal Education Outcomes data released appeared first on Wonkhe.
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 9:01am
Establishing an overseas campus is very far from straightforward. Universities will better reap the rewards on their investment if they look beyond the short-term financial gains, writes Paul Greatrix.
The post Real internationalisation: thoughts after the gold rush appeared first on Wonkhe.
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 7:01am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Donald Trump's bizarre cabinet meeting Monday in which members heaped praise upon him comes on a day the president's ego may need a bit of stroking.
"49% of voters say that they think Trump committed obstruction of justice, to just 41% who don't think he did." —Public Policy Polling
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 6:09am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
In response to a Wall Street Journal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request pertaining to possible tapes of conversations between President Donald Trump and fired FBI Director James Comey, the Secret Service wrote on Monday that, to the agency's knowledge, no such tapes exist.
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 6:03am
Betsy Hartmann
As the first-year anniversary passes of Omar Mateen's deadly attack on the gay Pulse night club in Orlando, it's worth remembering Donald Trump's apocalyptic response. Out on the campaign trail, he used the tragic event to warn that Muslim terrorism could obliterate the United States. "There will be nothing, absolutely nothing, left," he said. "Can you imagine what they’ll do in large groups, which we’re allowing now to come here?"
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 5:09am
Robert Naiman
With the Senate, it's always hard to know for sure when a vote will be. But the latest reports are that a Senate vote on Trump's Saudi arms deal will happen after 2pm ET Tuesday.
This vote is a Senate roll call on U.S. participation in the Saudi-UAE war and blockade on Yemen, which has pushed Yemen to the brink of famine, with millions of human beings at risk of starvation.
This is a winnable fight:
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 4:57am
Ahead of Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein’s testimony before congressional appropriations subcommittees on Tuesday, several national civil rights and justice system reform leaders spoke out about the implications of a Department of Justice budget that shifts priorities from civil rights enforcement toward a renewed War on Drugs and incarceration. The groups called on members of Congress to push Rosenstein to explain his department’s budget priorities and commit to robust civil rights enforcement.
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Peter Dreier
Should we allow states to decide whether black Americans may marry white Americans? Today, such an idea seems absurd. Most Americans believe that states shouldn't be permitted to trample on the basic right of interracial couples to marry. It would be unfair — a clear violation of civil rights. But until 50 years ago (June 12, 1967), when the Supreme Court knocked down state laws banning interracial marriage in Loving v. Virginia, 16 states still had such laws on the books. At the time, 72% of Americans opposed marriage between blacks and whites.
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 4:38am
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 4:06am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
In an act of secrecy denounced by one commentator as "an insult to Americans and our democratic process," two GOP aides told Axios on Monday that although the Senate will soon complete its version of the widely panned American Health Care Act—also known as TrumpCare—the bill will be withheld from the public indefinitely.
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 4:05am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
This post will be updated.
The Trump administration's revised Muslim ban was dealt another blow on Monday after a second federal court of appeals blocked it.
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 3:46am
David Schwenk
Progressive organizers, activists, and politicians gathered this weekend in Chicago for the Second Annual People's Summit and delivered an emphatic message to the Democratic Party that lost to Donald Trump: We are the future of this country, and only our people's movement toward justice will achieve victory at the ballot box. As keynote speaker Senator Bernie Sanders thundered to a wildly jubilant crowd, “The current strategy of the Democratic Party is an absolute failure.
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 3:37am
State policies designed to encourage renewable growth are the best way we’ll win the fight for a clean energy future. But some states have policies that actually count dirty energy sources like garbage incineration as “renewable.”
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 2:09am
Medea Benjamin
Even if you attended the 4,000-strong Peoples Summit in Chicago on June 9-11 organized by folks from the Bernie Sanders campaign and National Nurses United (NNU), you might have missed the most significant moment of the gathering. It was a seemingly offhand comment made by NNU Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro during the Saturday evening session when Bernie Sanders spoke to an adoring crowd, but a comment that adds kindling to a potential 2020 fire.
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 1:51am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The streets of Hollywood and West Hollywood on Sunday were filled with rainbow flags and calls for love to beat out hate. But it was a bit different from L.A. Pride parades of year past, as this year's march, coming as it did in the first Pride month of a Trump administration, took on a key hashtag since Jan.
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 - 12:15am