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Feb 23 2017
News
Testy Town Halls Driving Many GOP Lawmakers To Simply Duck Them
In the summer of 2009, as Democratic town hall meetings grew unruly with protests over President Barack Obama’s health care proposal, lawmakers looked for ways to calm the waters. One idea was to simply scrap the in-person town hall.
Instead of inviting constituents to community centers or school auditoriums, Democratic lawmakers would send out dial-in information for conference calls.
HuffPostJul 31 2020
News
Election Integrity
On Thursday, President Donald Trump tweeted, “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???” (Twitter)
Later on Thursday, Trump “said he did not want to postpone the vote, but
The Flip SideMay 14 2016
News
#NeverTrump, #NeverHillary: Let’s Talk.
If you’ve read my work for any length of time, you know by now how much I love movies (see here, here and here), and how much they tend to make their way into my illustrations.
So, unsurprisingly, I want you to think about another scene from yet another movie.
It’s “Hook,” where the late, great Robin Williams plays Peter Banning, a workaholic businessman who discovers th
The BlazeJan 28 2020
Analysis
Whatever Happened to the Classroom of the Future?
The runaway success of Khan Academy, which launched in 2008, showed the potential of online learning to revolutionize K-12 education. It meant that a great classroom lecture could be experienced by anyone, anywhere. The same year, the legendary business consultant and academic Clayton Christensen—who passed away last week at the age of 67—co-authored Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation
ReasonMay 26 2020
News
Questions about COVID-19 test accuracy raised across the testing spectrum
For Sarah Bowen, it all started with a sore throat. Not the kind of searing pain she’d feel with strep, she said, but a throat irritation that just didn’t feel right.
“By the end of the day, it just got a little worse and I didn’t feel great. I felt like I might be coming down with something. And the next day, things got worse,” Bowen, 31, of Portland, Oregon, said.
Bowen works
NBC News (Online)May 26 2020
News
The Pandemic Is Driving America's Schools Toward A Financial Meltdown
Austin Beutner looked haggard, his face a curtain of worry lines. The superintendent of the second-largest school district in the nation sat at a desk last week delivering a video address to Los Angeles families. But he began with a stark message clearly meant for another audience:
Lawmakers in Sacramento and Washington, D.C.
"Cuts to funding at schools will forever impact the
NPR (Online News)Jul 17 2013
News
Senate Crisis Averted Where Clinton Impeachment Planned
The brinkmanship and personal recrimination pointed to a Senate in crisis. After weeks of deadlocked partisan talks over President Barack Obama’s choice to run a consumer financial protection bureau born of the worst recession since the Great Depression, Democratic leaders threatened to strip Republicans of their power to block Richard Cordray’s confirmation.
BloombergMar 10 2021
Analysis
As relief bill expands safety net, are views of welfare state shifting?
As President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan speeds toward final passage this week, Democrats are hailing the bill as one of the most sweeping pieces of progressive legislation in decades – one that they say will lift millions of Americans, particularly children, out of poverty, and could herald a deeper and more long-term shift in public attitudes toward government assistance
Christian Science MonitorJun 27 2019
News
Winners and losers from the Democratic presidential debate’s first night
The first night of the first debate of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary is over, with the first 10 candidates jousting Wednesday night in Miami.
Below are our winners and losers.
Winners
Elizabeth Warren: The Massachusetts senator went into the debate with the biggest target on her back as the highest-polling candidate onstage. But she largely skated. Other
Washington PostJun 17 2012
News
Romney Revs Up Drive in Michigan
Barack Obama breezed to victory in Michigan in 2008 and, until recently, his bailout of the state's auto industry looked to have armored him well for November. But signs of trouble are brewing in the Great Lakes State. If they grow, they would signal broader problems for the president in the industrial Midwest.
Wall Street Journal (News)