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I read that you will roll out your new poverty task force's proposal tomorrow, and I wonder if you remember me. I testified at one of the hearings you hosted on the War on Poverty two years ago.
Getting students to apply to and enroll in college can require a lot of creativity at an institution without any brand recognition. Even so, FastTrain College's recruiting tactics took the idea of an exotic approach far too literally.
The Fallen Roof granaries, constructed more than 800 years ago, still contain a dried corn cob. Maize accounted for roughly 80 percent of the ancestral Pueblo diet.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Sunday that Donald Trump should not have attacked a judge regarding his "Mexican heritage." "This is one of the worst mistakes Trump has made," Gingrich said on Fox News Sunday.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signs a first-in-the-nation Executive Order directing the divestment of public funds supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel during a breakfast meeting at the Harvard Club. Afterwards, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo stirred the immediate ire of human rights campaigners around the world on Sunday by signing an executive order calling for the creation of a "blacklist" that would track groups and individuals who support Palestinian rights through the international Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement known as BDS.
Donald Trump sounded an awful lot like the mafia types he's been linked to in the past when he told CBS' Face The Nation , that he wants foreign countries to pay "protection money," to the U.S. In responding to host John Dickerson's question about Hillary's criticisms of Trump's policies, Dickerson asked, "what policy of yours did she mischaracterize?" Trump responded by saying she only gave a "Trump policy" speech and said, "She talked about I wanted to nuke all of these countries, that's ridiculous. No, I want these countries to pay for protection."
Beltway pundits who have for years told their adoring public that no matter how utterly craven Republicans may be, Democrats do it too are now very, very concerned about public cynicism. How can that be , they wonder.
On HBO's Real Time last night, Bill Maher did a segment on how the media has set up a new rule for Donald Trump. Heather wrote about it today for C&L, but I wanted to focus on a small part of Maher's critique, which was squarely aimed at Fox News' Megyn Kelly.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Sen. Rob Portman blasted Donald Trump for making personal, racially tinged verbal attacks against a federal judge. Trump has issued a litany of attacks on U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing two class-action lawsuits against Trump University in San Diego.
Donald Trump, left, listens as Michael Sexton introduces him during a 2005 news conference in New York, where he announced the establishment of Trump University. When Donald Trump introduced his new university from the lobby of his famous tower, he declared that it would be unlike any of his other ventures.
This piece by Eric Alterman about the press's He said/ She said "both sides do it" coverage of the 2016 election is an absolute must read. There is a very big risk of the press normalizing Trump and pathologizing Clinton in order to pretend they are being "balanced."
Donald Trump touted his support among African-Americans on Friday by pointing out a single black man in the crowd at a rally. He pointed at the man and said, "Oh, look at my African-American over here!" Trump added, "Are you the greatest? You know what I'm talking about? OK."
Cities reduced to rubble, schools and hospitals leveled, prisoners tortured and executed, car bombs exploding. Long lines of refugees, their homes in ruins, stumbling along a road to nowhere with their few remaining possessions carried on their backs.
Award-winning journalist Coy Barefoot talks with author and peace activist David Swanson. The Coy Barefoot Program is a project of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia.
The shooting of a Florida State University law professor in his upscale neighborhood two years ago was part of a murder-for-hire scheme that may have been set in motion by a bitter divorce between the victim, Daniel Markel, and his ex-wife Wendi Adelson, according to court records released Thursday. Markel and his wife divorced in 2013, but before it was finalized court records show that the two fought over Adelson's push to move her two small children to South Florida to be closer to her family.
On May 5, Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times, published an article- "Should Prostitution be a Crime" -that had been months in the making. I know this because Bazelon interviewed me for it during an hour-long phone call and an exchange of more than 30 emails.
A new poll released Wednesday found that a majority of registered Democrats want presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders to stay in the race. The national survey of 2,001 voters by Morning Consult found that 57 percent of all Democrats polled want Sanders to keep running, while 33 percent want him to drop out.
Key tactics in Donald Trump's "Playbook" included pressuring potential students to take on debt and preying upon personal vulnerabilities. A swindle and a sham that "preyed upon the elderly and uneducated to separate them from their money" is how people who worked for Trump University described the methods behind the self-titled, now-defunct real estate education program run by the presumptive Republican nominee.
"The Fourth Circuit took the third party doctrine further than any case we've seen so far," wrote the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In a major setback for privacy advocates, a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday ruled that cellphone location data is not protected by the Fourth Amendment and can be collected without a warrant.
Last year, the solar PV market was up 25 percent over 2014 to a record 50 gigawatts, lifting the global total to 227 gigawatts. Renewable energy boomed in 2015, a year that saw fossil fuel prices plummet and ended with a historic climate agreement hammered out in Paris.