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Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 11:24pm
Jim Hightower
When I think of freedom, I think of it in positive, aspirational terms — our First Amendment freedoms, for example, or FDR's "Four freedoms" or the uplifting songs of freedom sung by oppressed people around the globe.
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 11:04pm
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 10:49pm
Common Dreams staff
Updated:
Details began to emerge of the individual identified as the assailant in Wednesday morning's shooting in Virginia as law enforcement officials identified the gunman as 66-year-old James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, Illinois.
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 10:45pm
Women graduates earn less than their male counterparts immediately after leaving university and in the vast majority of subjects. We pick this apart and suggest what role universities might have to play in fixing it.
The post Why is there such a large gender pay gap for graduates? appeared first on Wonkhe.
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 8:30am
Common Dreams staff
As Senate Republicans attempt to ram through the American Health Care Act (AHCA), aka Trumpcare, without public hearings before the upcoming recess, Senate Democrats on Tuesday announced their intention to introduce the "No Hearing, Note Vote Act" bill in order to highlight the GOP's obfuscation.
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 7:24am
Win Without War Director Stephen Miles issued the following statement regarding today’s Senate vote on whether to block precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia:
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 7:10am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
The Senate voted on Tuesday to approve a widely criticized $500 million sale of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia, narrowly beating back a bipartisan effort to block the deal.
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 5:55am
Today, shamefully, the US Senate voted 53 to 47 to approve the Trump administration’s plan to sell precision-guided munitions to the Saudi regime, munitions that will be used to bomb innocent civilians in neighboring Yemen, as the Saudis have been doing for over two years now.
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 5:28am
Common Dreams staff
Though President Donald Trump now occupies the most powerful office in the world, author and activst Naomi Klein argues there's nothing inevitable about what comes next.
"A major crisis could redraw the political map overnight," she warns, "giving Trump and his crew free rein to ram through their most extreme ideas."
However, she adds, such "tactics can be resisted" so long as people learn to recognize them and respond appropriately. She writes:
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 4:33am
Senate staff has started barring reporters from recording video or audio interviews in the halls of the Capitol without permission, reversing decades of common practice.
American Civil Liberties Union Political Director Faiz Shakir had this statement:
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 4:31am
Brett Max Kaufman
While the ACLU’s focus on foreign intelligence surveillance typically centers on the U.S. government’s National Security Agency, intelligence collection actually operates on a global scale. Our government is just one branch of an international network of intelligence services that coordinate their efforts with virtually no transparency or accountability.
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 4:27am
Richard Eskow
When he withdrew from the Paris climate agreement, Donald Trump gave a speech so filled with falsehoods that it triggered detailed rebuttals by publications ranging from Politifact to Scientific American.
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 4:13am
Audrey Juarez
I still remember the metallic taste in my mouth when I first heard about the Pulse night club shooting. I was sitting on my couch, hung over from DC Pride, scrolling through Twitter. My whole feed was full of AP alerts tallying the body count, of articles describing the lives lost, of members of the Orlando LGBTQ community searching for their loved ones. Almost immediately after that initial wave of nausea hit me, the tears came.
And for about 24 hours, maybe more, they didn’t stop.
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 3:45am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 3:31am
It’s been 1,145 days since the Flint Water Crisis was forced onto the community by a Snyder administration-appointed emergency manager. Today, dozens of residents delivered 1,145 — one for each day since the crisis began — “You Owe Me” messages in empty water bottles to Governor Rick Snyder and Attorney General Bill Schuette in Lansing.
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 3:27am
Universities need to get to grips with the politics of Longitudinal Education Outcomes data, and fast, or suffer the consequences, suggests Ant Bagshaw.
The post Let’s talk PoLEOtics – Like it or not, graduate salaries matter appeared first on Wonkhe.
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 3:12am
There are plenty of interesting insights and perspectives to be gained from a day's worth of analysis of the the new Longitudinal Education Outcomes dataset. David Morris suggests some winners and losers from this release.
The post Lessons earned – winners and losers from LEO appeared first on Wonkhe.
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 2:29am
Note: On June 12, the U.S. Treasury Department released the first in a series of reports mandated under an executive order to review financial reform laws.
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 2:26am
Momentum is building for an “Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality” scheduled for July 12th to oppose the FCC’s plan to slash Title II, the legal framework for net neutrality rules that protect online free speech and innovation.
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 2:24am
Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, Justin Elliot, ProPublica
Marc Kasowitz, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer in the Russia investigation, has boasted to friends and colleagues that he played a central role in the firing of Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, according to four people familiar with the conversations.
Kasowitz told Trump, “This guy is going to get you,” according to a person familiar with Kasowitz’s account.
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 1:36am
Tom Engelhardt
In its own inside-out, upside-down way, it’s almost wondrous to behold. As befits our president’s wildest dreams, it may even prove to be a record for the ages, one for the history books.
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 1:16am
Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept
Over the past decade, the United States has claimed broad authority to carry out drone strikes across the world, even in places far from the battlefield. Under President Barack Obama, the U.S. acknowledged killing between 2,867 and 3,138 people in strikes that took place in countries like Somalia, Yemen, and Pakistan.
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 1:05am
Shaun King
In a recent poll from the health insurance industry, only 8% of Americans actually want the United States Senate to pass the terrible Trumpcare bill, also known as the Affordable Health Care Act, that the House passed a few weeks ago.
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 12:51am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
The Treasury Department on Monday released a report (pdf) that "grants Wall Street its wishes" by recommending the White House defang the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and severely roll back regulations established following the financial meltdown of 2008.
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 - 12:38am
John Nichols
ongress has sufficient grounds to hold President Trump to account for obstruction of justice. The proper means for holding him to account is an impeachment process, one that is informed by lessons from the Congress that sought to hold Richard Nixon to account after his Watergate-era wrongdoing was revealed. That’s not a radical construct. That’s a historical construct.