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Aug 20 2014
News
Obama’s Ferguson trap: Why he can’t win on race
President Obama tried to strike a careful balance with his White House remarks on Ferguson, expressing sympathy for community outrage over Michael Brown’s killing while also declaring that black crime would not be tolerated.
And he managed to make no one happy.
Dealing with racial conflagrations is especially difficult for the nation’s first black president. Obama pointedly told
Fox News (Online News)Aug 20 2014
News
Grand jury to open amid uneasy peace in Ferguson
A local grand jury is expected to hear evidence Wednesday in the fatal shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown as an uneasy peace settles over this St. Louis suburb that has been wracked by more than a week of protests and violence.
The streets of the embattled town of 22,000 people saw pockets of violence during demonstrations Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning but on the
USA TODAYAug 19 2014
News
Ferguson police were 'aggressive,' a critical Missouri governor says
Gov. Jay Nixon is criticizing the "over-militarization" of the police response to protests that have been spurred by the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Nixon appeared on most of the political talk shows on Sunday, calling the tactics of the St. Louis County Police "aggressive" and expressed relief that the Justice Department is conducting its own investigation into
CNN (Online News)Sep 13 2015
News
Donald Trump, Ben Carson set the pace for 2016 GOP field in Iowa: poll
Real estate mogul Donald Trump is leading the 2016 GOP field in the early state of Iowa, with retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson 6 points behind and the rest of the field well back, according to a poll released Friday.
Mr. Trump was at 27 percent support, followed by Mr. Carson at 21 percent and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas at 9 percent, a Quinnipiac poll said.
“With five months until the
Washington TimesJul 02 2019
Opinion
What Kamala Harris And Joe Biden Should Be Talking About Instead Of Busing
Joe Biden is getting flak for his stance on busing. But segregated schools aren’t the root cause of educational inequity, and integration alone isn’t enough to address it.
At the Democratic Presidential debate last week, Kamala Harris took on Joe Biden for his opposition to court-ordered busing. At the debate, Biden defended his position with what sounded like a reference to states’
ForbesJan 20 2020
Background
America leads other countries in deepening polarization
America’s widening political divide stands out above other nations, according to a new cross-country polarization study by Stanford economists.
Over the past four decades, the chilly chasm of negative sentiment between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. has nearly doubled, and it has grown faster and larger compared to the partisan climates of eight other established democracies
Stanford NewsAug 16 2012
News
Josh Mandel, Ohio Senate Candidate, Adopts Southern Accent As Romney Watches
The Republican nominee for an Ohio U.S. Senate seat started speaking in a southern accent Tuesday while defending the coal industry during a rally with Mitt Romney.
Ohio State Treasurer Josh Mandel, challenging Sen. Sherrod Brown (D), adopted the accent for part of his speech during the rally with Romney in Beallsville, in mountainous eastern Ohio near the West Virginia border, the
HuffPostMay 13 2015
News
Obama accused of making 'disrespectful' and 'sexist' comments toward Warren
President Obama is facing criticism from his liberal base over what they say are “disrespectful” and even sexist comments about Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has led the opposition against a White House-backed trade bill.
“I think the president was disrespectful to her about the way he did that,” Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, told reporters Tuesday, a few days after Obama
Fox News (Online News)Aug 19 2014
News
Police are operating with total impunity in Ferguson
Above you'll see a picture of Scott Olson, the Getty photographer who's brought us many of the most striking images of protests and police crackdown that followed the shooting of Michael Brown.
The other two men in the photograph, despite presumably being police officers, are not identifiable at this time. Unlike normal police officers, they are not wearing name tags or badges with
VoxJun 11 2014
News
Standardized Testing and the Common Core Standards: You Get What You Pay For?
Eighty-five percent of American students attend school in a state that has adopted the Common Core State Standards. As these states transition from adoption to implementation of the new standards, many are grappling with how best to assess whether students are learning the material contained in the Common Core. Debates about the costs and merits of Common Core tests are raging in states across
Brookings Institution