Security detail protecting Education Secretary cost nearly $8M over 8 months
Narrowly confirmed after Vice President Mike Pence broke a 50-50 tie in the Senate, DeVos is the first cabinet-level official to receive protection from the marshals service since 2009.
Koch caucus continues its assault on healthcare
Three interconnected stories – of the Koch brothers, the Freedom Caucus, and the Affordable Care Act – paint the larger picture of money’s corrupting role in American politics.
The pandora’s box of war
None of the insurgents in the region will willingly lay down their weapons until the U.S. occupation of the Middle East ends.
Activists rally in front of Trump Tower in Chicago to protest Syria missile strikes
When President Obama was faced with the same questions of intervention in 2013 after Assad and the Syrian government was accused of gassing its own people, many leading republicans came out and condemned a quick action.
Why these missile strikes won’t make things better for the Syrian people
There are serious questions as to whether Trump’s bombing of the Syrian base has anything to do with protecting civilians.
50 years later, a speech by King has lessons for a president
Difficult work remains for those in whom Martin Luther King Jr. had the most hope: the people, organizing grass-roots power for peace.
In the public schools, it’s been 1984 for quite awhile
Betsy DeVos is the face of corporate reform, displaying in stark, unlovely form the processes that have been eating away at public education since the beginning of this century.
The spoils of war: Trump lavished with media and bipartisan praise for bombing Syria
The one constant of American political life is that the U.S. loves war. Martin Luther King’s 1967 denunciation of the U.S. as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today” is more accurate than ever.
The left is losing the war on education. Here’s how we can win again.
After years of retreat, it’s time for a different tactic in the war on education.