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Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 11:57pm
Michael Winship
Over in New York’s Central Park, just a short distance from our offices, the curtain came down last week on The Public Theater’s controversial production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Controversial because the actor playing the assassinated Caesar looked and sounded like Donald Trump, right down to the overlong red necktie and clownish orange-blond nimbus of hair.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 11:51pm
Julia Conley, staff writer
Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is calling on Democrats to embrace a single-payer healthcare system in order to win back Congress and the White House in upcoming elections.
Warren argued that simply blocking the Republican rollback of the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare, is not enough to distinguish Democrats from their GOP counterparts in the minds of voters.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 11:31pm
Leon W. Russell, Chair of the NAACP Board, today issued the following statement in response to the release of the Congressional Budget Office’s report on the impact of the American Health Care Act, also known as Trumpcare.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 11:26pm
Jake Johnson, staff writer
On the heels of the Congressional Budget Office report projecting 22 million people could lose health insurance if the Senate's version of Trumpcare becomes law, a new analysis published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (AIM) suggests the legislation could cause the deaths of thousands of people per year.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 11:20pm
Elly Kugler & Marzena Zukowska
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 11:17pm
Katrina vanden Heuvel
While Washington is fixated on President Trump’s tweets, antics, lies and Russiagate, the administration is ramping up a stealth escalation of our military involvement across the Middle East. As Naomi Klein warns, Trump’s “rolling shock of the chaos and spectacle” distracts from radical actions both at home and abroad.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 9:29pm
Paul Buchheit
It goes far beyond Donald Trump. He's just simple-mindedly exacerbating a trend. Clear signs of deterioration have been building in our nation, some of them old and some more recent, all of them related to arrogance and greed at the highest levels. Beyond these failings there is one obvious way to begin to reverse the process.
DESTRUCTION OF FAMILIES: Losing Their Wealth, Taking Painkillers, and Dying
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 9:07pm
Jon Queally, staff writer
In the wake of new reporting suggesting that the Trump administration's decision to target the Syrian government with cruise missiles in early April was conducted without sufficient evidence and over the objections of some in the U.S. intelligence community, the White House on Monday night threatened President Bashar al-Assad's government with further military action.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 8:13pm
Jake Johnson, staff writer
President Donald Trump's approval ratings in the United States have been described as "historically low," and according to a new global survey published by Pew Research Center, he is not faring much better overseas.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 9:01am
London's non-specialist universities have struggled in TEF, and could have done even worse were it not for the panel's discretion. Nona Buckley-Irvine asks why students seem to have a much poorer experience in the capital.
The post TEF results – making sense of the London effect appeared first on Wonkhe.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 9:01am
Whilst in previous exam seasons we have seen a number of innovations designed to help relieve students’ stress during these most difficult times, this year has been a little disappointing.
The post Karaoke kings & queens: stressbusting for students appeared first on Wonkhe.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 7:55am
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 7:07am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 6:21am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Hundreds of U.S. mayors have rejected the ongoing militarism supported by the present and Congress and instead called for a budget that supports "human and environmental needs."
Over 250 Democrat, Republican, and Independent city leaders that make up the U.S. Conference of Mayors delivered their rebuke to the administration's agenda with the passage of a series of resolutions Monday at their gathering in Miami.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 6:15am
Ralph Nader
The hype and unsubstantiated hope behind the self-driving car movement continues unabated, distracting from addressing necessities of old “mobilities” such as inadequate public transit and upgrading highway and rail infrastructure.
At a conference on Driverless Cars sponsored by the George Washington University Law School earlier this month, the legal landscape of unresolved problems and unasked questions were deliberated for a full day:
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 6:02am
Andrew Cohen
It is the last Monday in June and I don’t know if Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is going to resign. Neither do you. This is yet another one of these insipid inside-Washington stories where the few people who know aren't talking and the many people who are talking don't know.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 5:32am
Julia Conley, staff writer
Writing in The Hill on Monday, anti-poverty crusader Sister Simone Campbell took Senate Republicans to task regarding their healthcare bill—and the implications it has for millions of Americans, particularly women and children.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 5:06am
Common Dreams staff
With just days for Republicans in the U.S. Senate to pass their Trumpcare bill before a congressional recess that begins at the end of this week, an updated version of an iconic ad is back on Monday featuring an elderly woman being foisted from her wheelchair over the edge of a cliff.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 4:43am
At its Miami conference, the US Conference of Mayors passed a resolution today calling for 100% clean, renewable energy by 2035 in their communities.
The following statement is from Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food & Water Watch:
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 4:21am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Indiana diverted millions of dollars for years from public schools to private school vouchers, resulting in negative or negligible results for student outcomes."
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 3:57am
Nancy Altman, Linda Benesch
Just over two years ago, Donald Trump gave a speech announcing his run for the presidency. In that speech, he promised that he would not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid. That promise became a centerpiece of his campaign.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 2:51am
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Today the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review the lawsuits challenging President Donald J. Trump’s executive order restricting travel from several Muslim-majority countries. The Court has also allowed the Muslim ban to go into effect for people without ties to the United States.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 2:31am
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 2:30am
Heather Timmons
Women have babies. If they didn’t, first the economy would collapse, and then the species would die out.
But because they do, from their late teens to their early forties, women have higher health-care costs than men of the same age. Carrying and birthing a child is a sometimes difficult, dangerous, complicated business, and one that, in America, can be incredibly expensive.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 2:22am
Today, the United States Supreme Court decided to review President Trump’s discriminatory executive order on refugees and immigration. The ban, if implemented, potentially puts the lives of tens of thousands of people at risk worldwide and poses a direct threat to Oxfam’s humanitarian mission. In response Oxfam America President Abby Maxman said:
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 2:17am
The Supreme Court today ruled that it was unconstitutional to exclude a Missouri church from a state cash aid program that reimbursed schools for resurfacing playgrounds with recycled tire materials.
Daniel Mach, director of the ACLU’s Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, had the following reaction:
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 2:04am
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 1:52am
Six constituents have staged a sit-in in Senator Capito’s office regarding the pending Senate healthcare bill. They say that they will not leave until Senator Capito agrees to vote against the bill, which was introduced last week and is likely to be voted on this week. Senator Capito has thus far failed to take a stand on the bill.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 1:37am
Julia Conley
The Congressional Budget Office is expected to throw a wrench in the plans of Senate Republicans Monday afternoon when it releases its analysis of the healthcare bill that was introduced last week.
Budget analysts polled by Politico are estimating that 15 million to 22 million Americans would lose health coverage over the next decade, should the bill pass.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 1:17am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
President Donald Trump, whose administration has been accused of anti-Muslim sentiment, has broken with nearly two decades of tradition by not hosting an iftar dinner to mark Islam's holy month of Ramadan.
"It is disappointing because that's been a good tradition," Imam Talib Shareef of the Nation's Mosque in Washington, D.C., told Newsweek Friday. "To stop it doesn't send a good message. [...] the message that it sends is that we're not that important."
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 1:17am
Robert Reich
The Senate’s bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act is not a healthcare bill. It’s a tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, paid for by a dramatic reduction in healthcare funding for approximately 23 million poor, disabled, and working middle class Americans.
America’s wealthiest taxpayers (earning more than $200,000 a year, $250,000 for couples) would get a tax cut totaling $346 billion over 10 years, representing what they save from no longer financing healthcare for lower-income Americans.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 1:13am
Following the Supreme Court’s announcement that it will hear arguments on President Trump’s discriminatory Muslim ban and allow the order to take effect in the meantime, Margaret Huang, Amnesty International USA executive director, released the following statement:
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 1:03am
Erwin Chemerinsky
When the president of the United States violates the Constitution there must be a way for a federal court to hear the case and provide a remedy. Three different lawsuits have been filed against President Trump claiming that he is violating the emoluments clauses of the Constitution by receiving unlawful payments or other benefits from foreign governments and from the United States.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 12:59am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
The Supreme Court on Monday announced it would hear arguments on President Donald Trump's proposed travel ban—also known as the Muslim Ban 2.0—which had previously been blocked by two federal appellate courts, one of which ruled the ban is "rooted in religious animus" and therefore unconstitutional.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 12:41am
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Comer that the state of Missouri must give taxpayer funding to a house of worship – a blow to our country’s fundamental principle of church-state separation.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 12:34am
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
The U.S. Supreme Court today announced that it will hear an appeal in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the case of a Colorado baker who claimed his religious beliefs justified his refusal to serve same-sex couples.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 12:27am
The Supreme Court today announced it will review a decision from the Colorado Court of Appeals that found that a cake shop discriminated against a same-sex couple by refusing to sell them a wedding cake.
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 12:17am
Sonali Kolhatkar
“They haven’t told us what we’re being arrested for yet,” said Rhoda Gibson, an organizer with ADAPT, a groups that advocates for disability rights. Gibson was speaking to me via Skype from a police van, where she being transported with other activists after they were arrested for protesting the Senate version of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), dubbed the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA).