“This is the boldest attempt we’ve seen in recent history to segregate higher education along racial and class lines,” said the Debt Collective At a markup session held by a U.S. House committee on the Republican Party’s recently unveiled higher education reform bill Tuesday, one Democratic lawmaker had a succinct description for the legislation. “This […]
“Now more than ever, a commitment to transparency and accountability is key to ensuring that candidates and elected officials serve the public, not their own interests,” said one campaign finance reform advocate Government ethics watchdogs on Friday said the sentencing of former Republican congressman George Santos to more than seven years in prison for fraud was a […]
Republicans, said one feminist writer, “don’t care about making the world better, safer, or healthier for American families and children. They just want women to have more babies.” Political observers have warned that U.S. President Donald Trump has spent his first months in office “flooding the zone”—unleashing a torrent of executive actions and Republican proposals meant to […]
Events on Saturday included marches as well as direct community-oriented actions, including neighborhood cleanups and food drives. Two weeks after millions of people attended “Hands Off” protests across the United States, expressing outrage over President Donald Trump’s unlawful deportation operation, abandonment of due process for hundreds of migrants, and spending cuts in the interest of enriching the […]