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May 26 2020
Analysis
Joe Biden has a plan for that
Former Vice President Joe Biden has never really sought or received a reputation as a deep thinker on domestic policy matters. His highest-profile role as a senator involved judicial confirmations and his time chairing the Foreign Relations Committee. As vice president, his best-known work was in the national security domain or as a personal emissary from the White House to Congress.
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Vox
Oct 09 2020
Analysis
Arizona used to be a conservative stronghold. Now it may go blue.
Two years ago, Yasser Sanchez was all in for Martha McSally. An influential leader in the Latino community, he took the Republican Senate candidate around to Spanish-language radio, television, and newspapers. He put up signs for her.
Now, he’s planning to vote for her opponent.
Senator McSally, Mr. Sanchez explains, is in lockstep with President Donald Trump – whom he vigorously
Christian Science Monitor
Nov 13 2019
News
Supreme Court Hears DACA Case
“The Supreme Court’s conservative majority signaled support on Tuesday for President Donald Trump’s bid to kill a program that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants - dubbed ‘Dreamers’ - who entered the United States illegally as children… The court’s ideological divisions were on full display as it heard the administration’s appeal of lower court rulings that blocked the Republican
The Flip Side
Mar 18 2020
News
Trump administration seeks 2 rounds of checks to Americans in massive coronavirus response
The White House is moving forward with a proposed $1 trillion coronavirus package that would infuse Americans' bank accounts with two rounds of direct cash payments.
The Trump administration is seeking $250 billion in payments to Americans starting April 6, followed by another $250 billion cash payment round beginning May 18, according to the working draft of the plan obtained by Fox
Fox News (Online News)
Apr 23 2020
News
Hope for student borrowers: Settlement requires administration move faster
How should the government help students defrauded by for-profit colleges? A lawsuit is pushing the Education Department to act more quickly on loan forgiveness – and raising questions about accountability and fairness.
Fresh hope arrived this month for about 170,000 student borrowers who say their colleges defrauded them. Their requests for forgiveness of federal student loans, known
Christian Science Monitor
Oct 23 2019
Opinion
Better Than a Loan
Student loan debt keeps growing.
There is a better solution than the ones politicians offer, which stick the taxpayer or the loan lenders with the whole bill.
It's called an "income share agreement."
Investors give money to a college, and the college then gives a free or partially free education to some students. When those students graduate, they pay the college a certain
John Stossel
Apr 22 2020
Analysis
Earth Day Turns 50
About 20 million Americans turned out for the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Lectures and rallies took place at more than 2,000 college campuses, 10,000 elementary and high schools, and thousands of other places across the country. Forty-two states adopted resolutions endorsing Earth Day, and Congress recessed so that legislators could participate in the activities in their districts. It
Reason
Aug 15 2022
Headline Roundup
Reflecting on the Taliban's Afghanistan Takeover, 1 Year Later
It's been one year since the Taliban took over Afghanistan and the U.S. ended its two-decade effort to democratize the country.
A year later, Afghanistan remains highly unstable. Despite pledges from the new Taliban government to make women "very active within our society," girls have been prevented from going to school in some cases, and "underground schools" have emerged as a result
NBC News (Online)
Reuters
Washington Examiner
Feb 26 2013
Opinion
NOW Supports President Obama's Goal of Reducing Gun Violence in U.S.
The National Organization for Women applauds President Obama and Vice President Biden for taking swift action after last month's devastating shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
National Organization for Women
Sep 03 2016
Opinion
U. Chicago Sent Incoming Freshmen a Letter Decrying Safe Spaces and Trigger Warnings
The dean of undergraduate students at the University of Chicago has sent a very odd letter to the class of 2020—one that seems more designed to strike a blow in the culture wars than to edify incoming freshmen. It starts with a bunch of back-patting about how “earning a place in our community of scholars is no small achievement”—so far, so normal for a letter from a selective private school.
Slate