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Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 11:33pm
Liz Ryan Murray
The Treasury Department has released their report on financial regulations they want to scrap. Spoiler alert: the Wall Street sharpies who Trump put in charge of our economy, who made fortunes on both ends of the housing collapse, think pretty much all regulations on banks, including home lenders, should go.
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 11:07pm
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
“Emolument” is a word few people used, or even knew, until Donald Trump assumed the presidency. Now, it’s being bandied about the Beltway on a daily basis, and is at the heart of several lawsuits accusing President Trump of corruption. At issue is a rarely referenced item in the U.S. Constitution, the foreign emoluments clause. There is a parallel domestic emoluments clause as well, which plaintiffs say Trump also is violating.
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 11:03pm
Robert C. Koehler
The word, inappropriately uttered, has the news value of a bullet fired off at the mall. One word. It’s the ticking time bomb of American history. It pulsates with paradox.
I want to take a moment to honor at least that: the paradox. How come its meaning changes depending on who says it? Some Americans can say that word with a sort of joyous irony, indeed, find a triumphant sense of empowerment in its use, while others can’t say it even in solidarity without risking an avalanche of censure?
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 10:55pm
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Water protectors celebrated a "very significant victory" on Wednesday as a federal judge deemed safety evaluations of the Dakota Access Pipeline insufficient and ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to "reconsider" its analysis of the risks the crude oil pipeline poses to the environment and the public.
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 9:19pm
Average student debt in Scotland, though still lower than other UK nations, is rising rapidly. Lucy Hunter Blackburn has taken a look at the latest Student Loans Company data.
The post Has the SNP succeeded in ‘dumping the debt’? appeared first on Wonkhe.
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 9:07am
Jon Queally, staff writer
"I think there will cynical and dishonest attempts to associate this economic populist movement with this kind of hateful act. But there is no connection. And people just need to be very clear about that and not be bullied."
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 6:59am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
In a move environmental groups decried as a gift to fossil fuel polluters, President Donald Trump's Interior Department announced Wednesday it was postponing key parts of an Obama-era rule regulating methane emissions from oil and gas developments on public lands.
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 6:21am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
The Trump administration on Wednesday announced that rules designed to protect students from predatory for-profit schools will be delayed and possibly scrapped entirely.
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 6:00am
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 5:16am
The Israeli authorities’ latest decision to slash the electricity supply to the Gaza Strip could have catastrophic humanitarian consequences for residents who have already endured a decade of suffering under Israel’s brutal blockade, Amnesty International has warned.
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 5:16am
The Israeli authorities’ latest decision to slash the electricity supply to the Gaza Strip could have catastrophic humanitarian consequences for residents who have already endured a decade of suffering under Israel’s brutal blockade, Amnesty International has warned.
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 4:39am
The decision by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) today to raise interest rates for the third time in six months is a clear mistake, even judged against the Fed’s too-conservative 2 percent inflation target.
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 4:19am
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 4:16am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Michigan's attorney general announced Wednesday that the head of the state's health department and four others have been charged with involuntary manslaughter for their role in the years-long Flint water crisis.
Nick Lyon, director of Michigan Health and Human Services, "failed in his responsibilities to protect the health and safety of the citizens of Flint," state AG Bill Schuette said at a press conference Wednesday.
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 3:10am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 2:13am
Friends of the Earth & SumOfUs
A recently released poll shows that 9 in 10 Americans have serious concerns about the potential merger of major agrochemical companies Bayer AG and Monsanto. In a new Public Policy Polling (PPP) poll of 1,506 registered voters, Americans expressed overwhelmingly negative thoughts about the merger’s impacts on jobs, food safety, and independent farmers. The merger of Bayer and Monsanto is currently under review by the U.S.
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 2:10am
The International Monetary Fund, Eurozone Finance Ministers and Greek officials meet Thursday in Luxembourg to negotiate financing and further debt restructuring for Greece.
Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of the religious development group Jubilee USA, releases the following statement:
Public Citizen Applauds Lawmakers’ Lawsuit to Enforce the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 2:05am
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 2:03am
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 1:55am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Intensified airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition targeting the Islamic State are responsible for a "staggering loss of civilian life" in Raqqa, Syria, a United Nations investigator said Wednesday.
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 1:07am
Conn Hallinan
The good news out of Europe is that Marine Le Pen’s neo-Nazi National Front took a beating in the May 7 French presidential election. The bad news is that the program of the winner, Emmanuel Macron, might put Le Pen back in the running six years from now.
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 12:56am
Evan Popp
Former President Barack Obama once articulated his vision of foreign policy as not doing “stupid shit.” By this he meant not putting boots on the ground in long-term, unwinnable wars. What this vision didn’t include was ending those wars or pursuing a progressive foreign policy based on peace and diplomacy.
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 12:53am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
In the latest bid to hold Donald Trump to account for refusing to sufficiently distance himself from his business empire, nearly 200 congressional Democrats filed a lawsuit (pdf) on Wednesday alleging the president has "repeatedly and flagrantly" violated the Constitution's emoluments clause.
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 12:45am
We already know that a graduates' social class origins have a big impact on their graduate earnings potential. This week's LEO release gives us the opportunity to test this for different subject areas.
The post POLAR opposites – LEO and the class effect on graduate earnings appeared first on Wonkhe.
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 12:43am
Katrina vanden Heuvel
The bars opened early in Washington and elsewhere last Thursday, as more than 19 million Americans tuned in when the networks and cable news channels carried live former FBI director James B. Comey’s riveting testimony in the intensifying scandals around President Trump.
Thursday, 15 June 2017 - 12:32am
Richard Eskow
New Yorkers face a “summer of hell” as Governors Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie seek to hand over the city’s historic Penn Station to private investors. This “hell” is the result of our leaders’ “bipartisan” reluctance to invest in needed government infrastructure.