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Less than five weeks before elections that will determine control of the U.S. Congress for the next two years, about a third of registered voters do not know the name of their party's candidate for office, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll found. Name recognition is critical in motivating voters, is the reason candidates spend millions of dollars on TV ads and is a major factor in incumbents' advantage in fending off challengers.
"The fact that, as a woman of color, I am facing accusations that my deeply held identity is a false one says more about the politics of Jewish identity than it does about my observing Judaism." "There was nobody in our immediate family who was Jewish .
Sheldon Silver, the former speaker of the state Assembly who rose to become one of New York's most powerful politicians, was sentenced to seven years in prison Friday for his conviction on federal corruption charges. Silver, a Democrat from Manhattan's Lower East Side, had served as speaker for more than two decades, and influenced nearly every major aspect of state politics.
Yesterday I noted that Republicans now dominate many old blue collar manufacturing districts that used to tilt decisively Democratic as recently as Bill Clinton's time. And one of the Democrats who has made some noises about how the neglect of the working class in the heartland has been a mistake for Democrats is Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, who unsuccessfully challenged Nancy Pelosi for the leadership of the House Democratic caucus after the last election.
In this April 30, 2018 file photo, striking teaching assistants protest on the Columbia University campus in New York. Image credit: AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews Their membership has been declining for decades.
It may only be a dumping ground for construction debris and certain types of wastes but its possessive owner is as loathe to give it up as if there were gold in them thar hills. In what amounts to a last-ditch effort to hold onto a 110-acre parcel at Bergen Avenue and Newark-Jersey City Turnpike known as the Keegan landfill, the Town of Kearny is pinning its hopes on the highest court in the land.
Graduate teaching assistants have taken on heavier workloads, but their pay rarely rises to the level of a living wage. More than a year after graduate students at Columbia University voted to unionize with the United Automobile Workers, hundreds of The students plan to stage a week-long strike during what is the university's most hectic time, when students and professors are preparing for finals and the help of graduate teaching assistants, fellows, and research assistants is critical.
The Department of Justice's inspector general is reportedly investigating "classification matters" related to former FBI Director James Comey's memos. After he was fired, Comey gave four of the memos to his friend, Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman, to leak to the press last year.
President Trump announced his intention to nominate Richard Clarida, a respected economist and Pacific Investment Management Co. global strategic adviser, as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve.
President Trump's tweets delight supporters who say they find him honest, funny and refreshing. But his tweets distract and dismay his detractors, alienate many of his allies and misdirect much of the media.
'It is very much a danger.' 'With Tibet following the India tradition of ahimsa and the global visibility of the Dalai Lama who embodies these values, he should be supported by India as a diplomat.'
Ann Coulter, the author of "In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!" has been having near daily hissy fits over Trump's broken campaign promises. In a piece in the Daily Beast today, Coulter is no less rankled, but she's not making herself look better, either.
Graduate teaching assistants at private universities had high hopes 18 months ago when a federal labor board ruled that they had a right to collective bargaining, but after the election of President Donald Trump, some schools are taking another shot at halting the burgeoning unionization movement. Columbia University announced in a university-wide email Tuesday that the school wouldn't bargain with the graduate students who voted more than 2 to 1 for union representation, and would instead appeal to a federal court.
Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe claims President Trump asked him if he could "get inside" Columbia University and retrieve college records of former President Barack Obama, according to a report Friday. Trump approached O'Keefe seeking the help of Project Veritas, a conservative group that attempts to expose media bias, to obtain Obama's college records to see if Obama claimed he was a foreign student at any point, according to a passage from O'Keefe's upcoming book obtained by CNN .
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Department of Justice is reviewing its policy on media subpoenas as part of an effort to combat leaks. Two media organizations planned to sue the Trump administration on Wednesday for details of government policies on surveillance of journalists, which remain hidden despite the groups' public records requests.
"It doesn't cheapen the aims of this biography or the ambitions of its subject," writes Christoph Irmscher, "to describe what follows as a story largely about sex and communism." What follows is the life of Max Eastman-poet, nudist, women's suffragist, war resister, socialist editor, and finally a self-described "libertarian conservative."
Apparently, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is considering a professorship role at Columbia University. With this Ivy League institution's tolerance for liberal activism and distracting outbursts of feminist dissent, Clinton's transition " out of the woods " and into the halls of higher learning should prove to be effortless.
Long before he became president, Barack Obama attended Occidental College. Above, a young Obama is shown in an undated photo at the college's Clapp Library.