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Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 11:43pm
Peter Dreier, Dick Flacks
“We all salute the same great American flag,” President Donald Trump told an enthusiastic crowd at a rally of evangelical Christians and military veterans at the Kennedy Center on Saturday.
"Many Americans believe that Trump has brought shame, not respect, on the American flag. His brand of flag-waving patriotism is rooted in xenophobia and racism."
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 9:44pm
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 7:47pm
Jake Johnson, staff writer
In a speech during the National Education Association's (NEA) annual meeting in Boston over the weekend, Lily Eskelsen García—the organization's president—delivered a searing rebuke to President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who she accused of pushing a "profoundly disturbing" agenda that could have devastating effects on children.
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 9:06am
London South Bank vice chancellor David Phoenix is the first to stick his head above the parapet and suggest that higher education funding in England may once again be indeed of drastic reform.
The post It’s time to review higher education funding in England appeared first on Wonkhe.
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 9:01am
There's more bleak news about the use of essay mills for cheating in our universities, but it doesn't quite stack up to using SparkNotes as a Nobel Laureate.
The post Ignoble – a new essay mill scandal? appeared first on Wonkhe.
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 9:01am
The Dearing Inquiry, though often remembered for introducing tuition fees, did so much more than we usually remember. Rhiannon Birch looks back on this important HE anniversary.
The post What did Dearing ever do for us? Twenty years of the ‘learning society’ appeared first on Wonkhe.
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 7:11am
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In Sunday's episode of "Last Week Tonight," host John Oliver took on media consolidation and the not-so-covert conservative bias at Sinclair Broadcast Group's local news stations.
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 6:50am
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 6:28am
Julia Conley, staff writer
As new and worrying evidence of global warming's destructive impacts mount around the globe, climate experts are saying efforts by the Trump administration's EPA chief to discredit decades of climate science research should be seen as a deceitful—and dangerous—tactic.
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 6:20am
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 6:15am
Charles P. Pierce
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 5:52am
Center for Biological Diversity
Chicago’s Field Museum and Lincoln Park Zoo will give away 700 free Endangered Species Condoms on Thursday as part of a new program created by the Center for Biological Diversity to get people who are interested in science and the natural world talking about the effect of human population growth on wildlife.
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 5:47am
Michele Swenson
Describing an “illiberal” or “managed” democracy, political philosopher Sheldon Wolin and others draw a picture of a U.S. government acting as servant of dominant corporate money that subverts democracy, overwhelms representative government and sacrifices the common good, as the major political parties, too, are captive to corporate control.
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 5:47am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
A federal appeals court handed President Donald Trump's deregulatory agenda a major defeat on Monday by rejecting the administration's effort to halt an Obama-era rule aimed at reducing methane leaks, which have a powerful warming effect on the environment.
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 5:12am
In an open letter released today, climate scientists, indigenous leaders, environmental and social justice groups, actors and artists call on the European Union to immediately withdraw its support for a gas mega-pipeline that would ‘destroy Europe’s climate targets’.
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 4:00am
Harvey J. Kaye
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 3:44am
Kathy Kelly
At an April, 2017 Symposium on Peace in Nashville, TN, Martha Hennessy spoke about central tenets of Maryhouse, a home of hospitality in New York City, where Martha often lives and works. Every day, the community there tries to abide by the counsels of Dorothy Day, Martha’s grandmother, who co-founded houses of hospitality and a vibrant movement in the 1930s. During her talk, she held up a postcard-sized copy of one of the movement’s defining images, Rita Corbin's celebrated woodcut listing "The Works of Mercy" and "The Works of War."
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 3:12am
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Amid reports that President Donald Trump may make an unscheduled visit to Downing Street in the coming weeks, protesters in the U.K. are saying—that "whenever and however" the U.S. president arrives—they will be ready to take to the streets.
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 1:54am
Julia Conley, staff writer
With the Spanish-language version of the White House website gone and a Twitter account that sits largely dormant, Latino and other Spanish-speaking Americans are criticizing the Trump administration for what looks like intentional neglect and overt indifference to their communities.
More than five months into Trump's presidency, the White House's Spanish Twitter account, @LaCasaBlanca, has tweeted only 41 times. More than half of the account's communications have been written in English.
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 1:46am
Sonali Kolhatkar
The Supreme Court this week made a series of decisions that challenge the central tenet of secularism in the nation: the separation of church and state.
First and most shockingly, the nine justices unanimously handed Donald Trump a victory on his controversial Muslim ban. Justices decided to let parts of the ban take effect until the court takes the case up in the fall.
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 1:24am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
As Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) gears up to bring the Senate Trumpcare bill to a vote by mid-month, resistance groups across the country are preparing to rally and confront their lawmakers over the July 4th holiday.
Tuesday, 4 July 2017 - 12:59am
Robert Reich
On Sunday morning Trump seemed to promote violence against CNN.
He tweeted an old video clip of him performing in a WWE professional wrestling match, with a CNN logo superimposed on the head of his opponent.