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Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 11:54pm
Jon Queally, staff writer
As a cadre of thirteen male Republican Senators refuses to show most of their colleagues and the American people their Trumpcare bill, a new poll on Wednesday reveals that support for the House version passed last month continues to lose support.
"This bill is like a vampire. It can't live when exposed to the light of day. That's why the Republican strategy has been to keep it a secret."
—Ben Wikler, Moveon.org
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 11:20pm
Jake Johnson, staff writer
On the heels of Democrat Jon Ossoff's narrow loss to Republican Karen Handel in the high-profile Georgia special election on Tuesday, many commentators are pinning the defeat on Democrats' glaring lack of an inspiring and ambitious progressive agenda.
"Democrats can excite their base and also win over voters who are frustrated with both parties with a vision to transform our nation into one that serves the many and not a powerful few."
—The Working Families Party
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 11:14pm
Robert Reich
Obstruction of justice was among the articles of impeachment drafted against both Presidents Nixon and Clinton. The parallel between Nixon and Trump is almost exact. White House tapes revealed Nixon giving instructions to pressure the acting FBI director into halting the Watergate investigation.
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 11:05pm
Jay Bookman
There are two ways to look at it, I guess.
From the point of view of the Republicans, they won Tuesday’s special election for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, and that’s all that matters. Politics is binary: You’re either going to Washington or you’re not, and Jon Ossoff is not. Karen Handel is. Republicans can also accurately claim to have taken their opponent’s best shot and remained standing.
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 9:03am
TEF's proxy metrics are not sufficiently reliable for evaluating university performance, and may lead to perverse incentives, argues Simon Marginson.
The post Performance management is here to stay, but TEF needs a rethink appeared first on Wonkhe.
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 9:02am
Last week's LEO data on salary outcomes had both encouraging and difficult news for the arts, humanities and social sciences disciplines. The British Academy's Harriet Barnes looks at the lessons for these subjects.
The post Graduate salaries and new challenges for the arts, humanities and social sciences appeared first on Wonkhe.
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 9:01am
A recent AMOSSHE roundtable explored the impact that TEF might have on student services. Nicola Barden asks whether student services will be shown to be more valuable than ever as a result.
The post Could TEF initiate a ‘golden age’ for student services? appeared first on Wonkhe.
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 6:31am
Todd Gitlin
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 5:26am
A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that prevented the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida from obtaining records regarding the use of cell phone tracker technology by the Sarasota Police Department.
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 5:21am
Kathy Kelly
This week, in New York City, representatives from more than100 countries will begin collaborating on an international treaty, first proposed in 2016, to ban nuclear weapons forever.
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 5:04am
Jon Queally, staff writer
Actually, no, major fossil fuel companies and "left-wing enviros" have not found common cause in an industry-backed carbon tax proposal.
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 4:59am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Paul Ryan is not serious about tax reform. He's serious about tax giveaways—for millionaires, billionaires, and wealthy corporations."
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 3:43am
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 3:05am
Wenonah Hauter
It's a deal Donald Trump would love—let's call it "The Great New York Ratepayer Swindle of 2016-17" —and New York's Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo is responsible for it. And if giant energy corporations get their way, it could be coming to your state next.
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 2:23am
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Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 2:18am
Hanif Hassan Al Qassim
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 2:10am
William Hartung
At this point, it’s no great surprise when Donald Trump walks away from past statements in service to some impulse of the moment. Nowhere, however, has such a shift been more extreme or its potential consequences more dangerous than in his sudden love affair with the Saudi royal family. It could in the end destabilize the Middle East in ways not seen in our lifetimes (which, given the growing chaos in the region, is no small thing to say).
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 1:56am
Paul Ryan is delivering a "major speech" on taxes today at the National Association of Manufacturers conference.
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 1:38am
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 1:32am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
In what is being called the "biggest protest crackdown since the Civil Rights Era," Republicans in at least 20 states have put forward or passed laws with the intention of making protest more difficult and the punishment for expressing dissent more draconian since President Donald Trump's inauguration in January.
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 1:22am
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 1:20am
Tom Engelhardt
Not that anyone in a position of power seems to notice, but there’s a simple rule for American military involvement in the Greater Middle East: once the U.S. gets in, no matter the country, it never truly gets out again. Let’s start with Afghanistan. The U.S. first entered the fray there in 1979 via a massive CIA-led proxy war against the Soviets that lasted until the Red Army limped home in 1989.
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 1:17am
Michael Winship
In just a few short months, the Trump wrecking ball has pounded away at rules and regulations in virtually every government agency. The men and women the president has appointed to the Cabinet and to head those agencies are so far in sycophantic lockstep, engaged in dismantling years of protections in order to make real what White House strategist Steve Bannon infamously described as “the deconstruction of the administrative state.”
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 1:05am
Katrina vanden Heuvel
One of the great ironies of the political moment is that President Trump’s sworn enemy has become, if not exactly an ally, an enabler of his agenda. For all of Trump’s griping about “fake news,” the mainstream media’s prevailing focus on palace intrigue and White House scandals has come at the expense of substantive policy coverage, allowing Trump and the Republican Party to advance harmful, hugely unpopular policies without the scrutiny they deserve.
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 12:50am
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 12:41am
Jeremy Slevin
There is a giant scandal in Washington this week—and it’s not the one blaring from your television screen. Largely without media scrutiny, the United States Senate is quietly getting ready to pass their version of the House bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act.