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Friday, 30 June 2017 - 11:49pm
Bill Moyers, Michael Winship
Take a look at the ad below and ask whether the National Rifle Association can go any lower. Ponder this flagrant call for violence, this insidious advocacy of hate delivered with a sneer, this threat of civil war, this despicable use of propaganda to arouse rebellion against the rule of law and the ideals of democracy.
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 11:26pm
Joshua Cho
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 8:00pm
Jake Johnson, staff writer
In a letter (pdf) to the White House on Thursday, the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) warned that a top Trump administration ethics official may have violated the very rules he is required to enforce by allowing billionaire investor Carl Icahn—who has frequently advised President Donald Trump on a variety of issues—to skirt financial disclosure requirements.
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 4:08pm
TEF and LEO approach the issue of graduate employment in very different ways. David Kernohan asks what we can learn by looking at the two together.
The post Employment and earnings – how do TEF and LEO compare? appeared first on Wonkhe.
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 9:01am
The transition from JACS to HECoS gives higher education providers the opportunity to improve their internal analysis and data functions. Alan Paull explains how this will be enabled.
The post Everyone’s favourite subject – the politics of course classification appeared first on Wonkhe.
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 9:01am
Susannah Hume of the Behavioural Insights Team explains how a simple, low-key 'nudge' may be an efficient way of encouraging disadvantaged applicants to apply to more 'elite' universities.
The post The right letter at the right time, and applicant aspirations appeared first on Wonkhe.
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 7:33am
Jon Queally, staff writer
Voting and civil rights advocates are ringing alarm bells on Thursday after it was learned that an election commission established by Donald Trump—one which critics feared from its inception would be used to suppress, not protect, voter access—had sent requests to all fifty states demanding personal and detailed information about voters.
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 6:48am
Jeff Bryant
A string of special election defeats has left Democrats bewildered at how they can continue to lose against a party led by the most unpopular president ever.
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 6:33am
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 6:22am
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the following statement today in response to news that Kris Kobach, vice-chair of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, issued letters to Secretaries of State seeking disclosure of identifying information on voters across the country:
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 6:14am
Common Dreams staff
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 6:06am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump's policy goals will, if fully implemented, take a wrecking ball to the Statue of Liberty." —Frank Sharry, America's Voice
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 6:04am
Julia Conley, staff writer
The gun control advocacy group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is leading the fight against a newly-passed bill in the Pennsylvania State Senate, which would allow teachers and other employees to carry firearms in public schools.
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 5:28am
Steven Singer
Next school year, I may be able to bring my gun to class.
The Pennsylvania state Senate voted 28-22 today to allow school employees like me to start packing heat.
Hooray!
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 3:21am
The federal government has reportedly issued extremely restrictive guidance on how it plans to implement a portion of President Trump’s Muslim ban.
The ban had been blocked by court orders, but on Monday the Supreme Court issued a ruling allowing the government to move forward with a narrowed portion of the ban starting today.
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 3:08am
Julia Conley, staff writer
Widespread applause greeted a large teepee in front of Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario on Thursday morning. First Nations protesters erected the teepee as a reminder of the mistreatment of their ancestors amid celebrations in Canada for the country's 150th anniversary.
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 2:58am
John Light
A campaign ad went viral last week — something that, despite political consultants’ best efforts, doesn’t often happen. It begins with an elderly woman sitting in her living room in Wisconsin. As her middle-aged son listens, she describes her concern that she someday may not be able to pay for the drugs she needs to treat her multiple sclerosis.
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 2:35am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 2:07am
Adele M. Stan
If there were ever a doubt that a traitor now occupies the Oval Office, Tuesday’s assault on the exercise of a free press, guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, should dispel it.
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 1:24am
Danny Sjursen
We walked in a single file. Not because it was tactically sound. It wasn’t -- at least according to standard infantry doctrine. Patrolling southern Afghanistan in column formation limited maneuverability, made it difficult to mass fire, and exposed us to enfilading machine-gun bursts. Still, in 2011, in the Pashmul District of Kandahar Province, single file was our best bet.
The reason was simple enough: improvised bombs not just along roads but seemingly everywhere. Hundreds of them, maybe thousands. Who knew?
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 1:06am
Julia Conley, staff writer
A new ad released by the National Rifle Association, in which conservative talk radio host Dana Loesch bizarrely casts the anti-Trump resistance as a violent threat—is receiving fierce pushback on Thursday, with many pointing out the irony (and danger) of the nation's largest gun lobby casting itself as the victims of violence.
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 1:02am
Neal Gabler
If you want to calibrate just how bad the Senate Republican health care bill is, you don’t need the Congressional Budget Office telling you that 22 million Americans would lose their insurance. Look no further than Susan Collins. The bill is so god-awful that the Republican senator from Maine, whom I lacerated last week for always fretting and dithering over her party’s initiatives only to support them in the end, wouldn’t even vote to bring it to the floor.
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 12:32am
Chris Winters
This week, the Senate’s plan to gut the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid was reviewed by the Congressional Budget Office. The verdict is that 22 million more people would lose their health insurance under that plan. Compared to the bill in the House of Representatives, under which 23 million would lose their coverage, at best you could say the Senate version is only 95.8 percent as terrible.
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 12:30am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Just how many adjectives of contempt does it take to describe the latest behavior of the President of the United States?