Trump Administration Education Plans Threaten American Public Education
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and the Trump administration plan to spend billions of public dollars to encourage parents to send their children to schools that may be for-profit, may discriminate in their admissions policies and ...
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"She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.”
“I am an American living in a small isolated village in the south of France. I’m originally from Oregon—my family was active politically in the state (my father Robert B. Duncan was a Democratic congressman ...
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Game Day in America
So yesterday “president game show host” said politics has become more important than football. Specifically he said: “One of the things that I heard this morning … watching the news was that — amazingly, it’s ...
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A Historical Take on the White Backlash That Fueled Donald Trump’s Victory
As I observe the fractious political debate consuming the Republican Party I can’t help but try to place the clash in historical context. Of course there are many examples in the development of the American ...
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