2024
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December 2024
- Joyce Vance: E. Jean Carroll Wins Again!
- Scott Maxwell: Where I Stand, What I Believe
- The “DOGE Commission” and Its Conflicts of Interest
- This Boston Teacher Helped Restore Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris!
- President Biden: Tribute to President Jimmy Carter
- Adam Kinzinger Pays Tribute to Jimmy Carter, a Great American
- Is Trump an “Outlaw” Or a Common Criminal?
- Joyce Vance: Bring Back Civics Education!
- “The Supreme Court is Part of the Oligarchy”
- Mercedes Schneider: The Man Who Spent His Life in an Iron Lung
- Doktor Zoom: Hallelulia! Arkansas Judge Strikes Down Censorship Law
- Trump Chooses Opponent of Federal Aid to Poor to Run Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Why Are Musk and Vance Praising a Far-Right German Party?
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump and Putin Want to Carve Up the Globe Between Them
- Tom Loveless: What We Learned from the 2023 TIMSS
- Paul Cobaugh: Tariffs Launched the Great Depression
- Education Law Center: How Fair Is Funding in Your State? The Case of North Carolina.
- Have Yourself a Trumpy Little Christmas
- Special Today! Bach’s Christmas Oratorio!
- Handel’s “Messiah” by a High School Chorus of Silent Monks
- Bob Shepherd Explains the History of Santa Claus
- Merry Christmas to All!
- Greg Olear: Reading Charles Dickens Today
- McKenzie Scott Gives $65 Million to Md. Group Focused on Affordable Housing
- Billionaire Jeff Bezos Gives $5 Million to Expand Homeless Shelters in Florida
- A Special Message for the Season: What Kind of Society Do We Want to Be?
- NPE Announces Winners of “Coal in the Stocking Award” for 2024!!
- Nancy Flanagan: We Need More Hygge Classrooms
- House Ethics Committee Releases Damning Ethics Report on Matt Gaetz, Trump’s Pick for AG
- Biden Interview: Portrait of a Good Man
- WSJ: Trump Threatens to Take Control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, Maybe Canada Too
- Andru Volinsky: The New Danger to Children of Immigrants
- Jamelle Bouie: Trump Got a Rude Awakening
- Jamelle Bouie: Trump is in for a Rude Awakening
- Rachel Maddow: 6 Things You Should Know about Tulsi Gabbard
- Journalist: “Farewell, Twitter! I’m Off to Bluer Skies!”
- Gary Legum: Musk Bought the Power He Wants
- Maurice Cunningham: Why Does the Boston Globe Favor the Voices of Plutocrats?
- Biden Announces $4.28 Billion in Student Loan Forgiveness
- Parents Fight UnitedHealth to Protect Their Son’s Coverage
- UnitedHealth Cuts Coverage for Autistic Children
- Thom Hartmann: The Failure of the U.S. Healthcare Insurance Industry
- A Daughter’s Life vs. Profits for the Insurance Company
- Robert Hubbell: What You Need to Know About the Budget Impasse
- Heather Cox Richardson: Republicans Play Politics with Jan 6 and the Budget
- Don’t Believe RFK, Jr.: Vaccines Eradicated These Deadly Diseases
- Carol Burris: West Virginia Starves Its Public Schools
- Elon Musk Blew Up the Bipartisan Deal to Fund the Government
- Texas: Dan Patrick Wants to Replace Public Schools with Christian Schools
- Ohio: Laws Advance to Protect Voucher Schools While Punishing Public Schools
- Kristy Greenberg: Biden Was Right to Pardon His Son Hunter
- Great News for NYC Retirees!
- The Guardian: Will Elon Musk Get a Top-Security Clearance?
- President Biden: Our Economic Accomplishments
- Tom Ultican: Denver Charter School Study Is Shoddy Research
- Margaret Sullivan: ABC News Should Not Have Settled with Trump for $15 Million
- Trump Questions Need for School Vaccines
- Texas: Immigrants Have Lower Crime Rates than Native-Born Citizens
- Jan Resseger: How Privatization Of Public Services Undermines Democracy
- Houston: Voters Rejected a $4.4 Billion Bond Issue to Protest Mike Miles’ Arrogance
- Wisconsin: Court Overturns Scott Walker’s Anti-Union Law
- Chalkbeat: Republicans Promote Religion in the Public Schools
- Rick Wilson: Trump in “Paradise Lost”
- If RFK Is Confirmed, the Anti-Science Movement Will Control Medical Research
- Jeff Tiedrich: Biden Should Pardon Everyone on Trump’s “Enemies List”
- Florida: Candidate for Congress Wants to Cancel College Aid for Dreamers
- Wonkette: Trump’s New Line of Fragrances Sells Out!
- World’s Richest Man is Scrooge!
- RFK’s Top Lawyer Has Sued to Block Vaccine Approvals and Mandates
- Peter Greene: Will Trump Achieve His Education Goals?
- Timothy Snyder: Tulsi Gabbard Would Be a Disaster as Director of National Intelligence
- Texas: State Study Documents Economic Benefits of Immigrants; Gov. Abbott Wants Them Gone
- Story of the Day! Tiffany Trump’s Father-in-law Is Not a Billionaire!
- Senator Joni Ernst Cowers Before MAGA Attacks
- Publisher of LA Times Will Use “Bias Meter” to Tell Both Sides of Stories
- Project 2025 Lives! Despite Trump’s Denials.
- Secretary Cardona Was a Huge Disappointment
- North Carolina: Republican Supermajority Strips Newly Elected Democrats of Power
- Trump Picks MAGA Lawyer to Lead Civil Rights Division of Justice Department
- The New Republic: How Trump Will Profit Bigtime from His New Job
- Texas: Deporting Undocumented Immigrants Will Cripple the Economy
- Senator Grassley Shows the Door to FBI Director Wray
- An Infectious Diseases Doctor Assesses Trump’s Public Health Team
- The Five Threats to Public Health on Day 1 of Trump Administration
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump Lies and Lies and Lies
- Voters Defeated the Dark Money Behind Vouchers
- Watch as Republicans Grovel Before Elon and Vivek
- Josh Cowen Reviews Pete Hegseth’s Book About Saving American Education
- Trump: He Will Pardon J6 Rioters, Try to End Birthright Citizenship on Day 1
- Explaining the 2024 Election
- RFK Jr. Has Been Undermining Global Health for Years
- David Pepper: The Biden Economy Was Dynamic, and Trump Will Take Credit for It
- Jeff Bryant: The Podcast That Was Killed–about State Takeover of Houston Schools
- Arkansas: Yes! You Can Use Your Voucher to Pay for Horseback Riding Lessons!
- Will Congress and the Supreme Court Allow Trump to Seize Control of “the Power of the Purse”?
- Heather Cox Richardson on the Meaning of December 7 for Us Today
- If Trump Chooses DeSantis to Replace Hegseth…
- John Thompson: Will We Ever Get Free of NCLB’s Mandates and Let Teachers Teach?
- Peter Greene: Evangelicals Are Knocking Down the Wall of Separation in Ohio, New Jersey, and Beyond
- Politico Sanewashes Crackpot RFK Jr.
- Bloomberg Blasts RFK Jr. as a Nutty Conspiracy Theorist
- Massachusetts: Angry Parents Sue Lucy Calkins and Others for Promoting Whole Language Instead of Phonics
- The Elon Musk Playbook: The Argentinian “Miracle”
- Trump Picks New IRS Commissioner, Even Though Current Leader’s Term Expires in 2027
- NPR: Trump’s Margin of Victory Keeps Shrinking
- Texas: State Will Not Release Data on Pregnancy-Related Deaths
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Using Heroin Improved My Scores
- My Thoughts on the Trump Education Agenda
- Heather Cox Richardson: Why Biden Pardoned Hunter
- Margaret Sullivan: Trump Will Endanger Freedom of the Press: Stand Up to Him!
- Michelle H. Davis: Wealthy Texan Opposes Programs That Aid the Needy
- Jane Mayer: Pete Hegseth’s Secret History as a Drunk and Sexual Predator
- Wisconsin: Dane County Judge Overturns Notorious Act 10!
- Timothy Snyder: America Cannot Survive Trump’s Horrible Appointments
- Jan Resseger: What Would Linda McMahon’s Agenda Be at ED?
- North Carolina: Vouchers Are Funding Indoctrination in Religious Schools
- President Biden Gives Hunter a “Full and Unconditional” Pardon
- What You Need to Know About Charles Kushner and Kash Patel: Kakistocracy
- Andy Borowitz: Trump Names El Chapo Ambassador to Mexico
- Pete Hegseth’s Mother Denounced His Treatment of Women, Then Retracted It
- Perry Bacon: Education Is Not a Partisan Issue–Or Is it?
- “Democracy”: How Pam Bondi Protected Foreclosure Fraud
- Trump Nominates MAGA Warrior Kash Patel to Lead the FBI
- Trump Names Jared Kushner’s Father as Ambassador to France: All in the Family
November 2024
- Trump’s Director of FDA Warns Senate Not to Confirm RFK Jr.
- Hechinger Report: Rural Students Lose Options, as Universities Cut Majors
- Chris Tomlinson: Texas Republicans Want to Drive Out Free-Thinkers. They Will Be Sorry.
- Trump Selects Financier With No Military Experience as Secretary of the Navy
- Dr. Oz Has Investments in Health Sector, Conflicts of Interest
- Brian Deer: RFK Jr. Spreads Misinformation and Lies
- Musk and Ramaswamy Plan to Cut the Federal Budget
- CNN: Elon Musk is Bullying Federal Employees
- Turkey Dinner at the Trumps!
- Robert Hubbell: Be Thankful for Our Tiny Blue Dot–And Humbled
- Happy Thanksgiving!
- NYCPSP: The Anti-Vaxxer Appointed by Trump to Lead NIH
- Politico Reporter Falls in Love with Voucher Pusher
- Washington Post: Trump Likely to Fire Every Attorney Who Aided Jack Smith
- President Biden Should Pardon His Son Hunter Before He Leaves Office
- Trump Chooses Critic of Vaccines and Lockdowns to Lead NIH
- Hopium: Get Ready to Resist Trump’s Efforts to Destroy Our Government
- “Democracy”: Pam Bondi Will Weaponize the Justice Department Against Trump’s Enemies
- Timothy Snyder: Trump’s Plan to Destroy Our Government
- Mississippi: Segregation Academies Enjoying New Voucher $$$
- Was Today the Worst Day in American History?
- Please Sign the NPE Petition Opposing Trump’s Appointment of Linda McMahon
- House Passes Legislation that Allows Trump to Shut Down Nonprofits on Flimsy Charges
- People Are Fleeing Twitter, Choosing BlueSky. I Am Too!
- Alexei Navalny: In a Russian Prison, Courage and Joy
- Should This Trans Man Use the Women’s Bathroom?
- Yale Drops No-Test Admissions Policy
- Florida: Surgeon General Recommends Eliminating Fluoride from Water
- NEA on Trump Appointee as Secretary of Labor
- Snopes: Elon Musk Said That Jeff Bezos Ex-Wife was a “Reason Why Western Civilization Died”
- Is Trump Trying to Destroy the Federal Role in Public Health?
- Peter Greene: What Did Kevin Huffman Learn from Failure?
- Rex Huppke: “Oh, No! Trump Is Doing What He Promised!”
- Kamala Was Not “Woke” During the Campaign
- Texas: State Board Likely to Approve Biblical Lessons in Public Schools
- The Key Fact About Pam Bondi, Trump’s Nominee for U.S. Attorney General
- Who Will Trump Nominate for U.S. Attorney General Now That Gaetz is Out?
- BREAKING: Matt Gaetz Withdraws as Attorney General Nominee
- Trump Team Trying to Slip Matt Gaetz Across the Finish Line
- Heather Cox Richardson: Eliminating the Department of Education?
- Laura Helmuth: RFK Jr. Is a Public Menace
- Was RFK Jr. Responsible for 83 Deaths in Samoa?
- The Trans Bathroom Issue Explodes in Congress
- Andy Borowitz: What Do We Do Now? Thoughts for Voters
- Peter Greene: A Tribute to 6-Year-Old Ruby Bridges
- What Peter Greene Thinks About the Nominee for Secretary of Education
- Trump Picks Linda McMahon, Wrestling Exec and Friend, as Secretary of Education
- What’s on the Musk-Ramaswamy Chopping Block?
- Jared Polis, Democratic Governor of Colorado, Praises RFK Jr.
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump Attacks the Foundations of Our Government
- John Horgan, Science Writer, Laments the Loss of a Bold Editor
- Editor of Scientific American Resigns After Expressing Outrage About Trump Win
- “Democracy”: Why Trump Chose FOX News Host as Secretary of Defense
- John Thompson: Steve Brill’s Destructive Attacks on Teachers Did Real Damage
- Trump Tries to Bypass the Senate to Install His Cabinet of Horribles
- Miranda Yaver: Disaster Ahead at the National Institutes of Health
- Muslim Leaders Who Endorsed Trump Are Dismayed by His Pro-Israel Cabinet Picks
- James Talarico: What Jesus Teaches about How to Live
- Trump’s Enemies List: Should They Worry?
- The Bulwark: Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian Asset
- The Atlantic: Tulsi Gabbard Should Not Be Confirmed as Director of National Intelligence
- Matt Gaetz Should Not Be Confirmed as Attorney General
- John Thompson: Ryan Walters Wants to be a Pea in Trump’s Pod
- Pete Hegseth is Unqualified to be Secretary of Defense
- Associated Press: What Trump Promised to Do on Day One
- Tass: Putin Believes Trump Owes Him for His Victory
- ProPublica: Voters in Three States Rejected Vouchers
- CBS: NPE Report Finds 36% of Michigan Charter Schools Fail in First Five Years
- Trump Names Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to Redesign the Federal Government; and a FOX News Host to Lead Dept of Defense
- Mercedes Schneider: Trump’s Plans for Education
- Jamelle Bouie: Do Trump Voters Know What He Plans to Do to Them?
- Peter Greene: Another Charter Miracle School Implodes
- Robert Hubbell: The Pundits Who Blame Democrats Are Wrong
- Michael Tomasky: The Real Reason Trump Won
- Heather Cox Richardson: Why Kamala Lost
- “Democracy”: The Corrosion of the Republican Party
- Politico: “The Greatest Failure of Federal Law Enforcement in History”
- Greg Olear: The Grim Reality Begins to Set In
- NYC: “Empty Beds” Mural Depicts Ukrainian Children Kidnapped by Russia
- Adam Kinzinger: I Am Not Afraid of Trump. He Is a Coward.
- Chris Tomlinson: Five Promises Trump Should Break to Save the Economy
- Peter Greene: This Election Taught Us a Lesson: Teach Truth
- Did Putin Rig Our Election?
- Glenn Kessler: The Challenge of Fact-Checking Trump UPDATED
- RFK Jr. Describes his Priorities for Public Health in Trump Administration
- Colorado: Voters Reject Proposal to Embed School Choice in State Constitution
- Nebraska: Voters Reject Private School Vouchers
- The New York Times Editorial Board Reacts to the Election
- Houston: Voters Reject $4.4 Billion Bond Issue as Protest Against State Takeover
- Voters Just Elected an Authoritarian Leader
- The Election Results
- Molly Jong-Fast: Women Can’t Risk Another Trump Term
- Brian Stelter: What Was the Most Memorable Event of the Campaign?
- Texas: Pregnant Teenager Dies After Going to Three Hospitals, Turned Away by First Two
- New York Will Ditch Regents Exams as a Requirement for High School Graduation
- Network for Public Education: Our Closing Argument
- A Last Word from the New York Times Editorial Board
- Trump: The Undisputed King of Scandals: A Comprehensive Guide
- Carol Burris: Why Older Women Will Not Vote for Trump
- And Now for Something Completely Different: Trump and Jeffrey Epstein
- Houston Chronicle Endorses Kamala Harris
- The New York Times Endorses Kamala Harris
- Jess Piper: Rural Women Are Angry About Abortion Bans
- New York Times: Donald Trump, Nonstop Liar
- The Official Closing Ad of the Harris Campaign
- What I Am Doing to Prepare for the Most Consequential Election of My Lifetime
- Nancy Flanagan: Terrified, Outraged, Exhausted
- GOP PACs Are Supporting Jill Stein’s Candidacy–to Hurt Kamala
- Dan Rather: Ignore the Polls; Turn Off Social Media; Read a Book; Take a Walk
- Jimmy Kimmel Presents Trump in his Own Words
- Trump Says RFK Jr. Will Oversee Public Health
- Public Education Has Been Ignored in the Campaign, But It Is on the Ballot
- Kentucky: Why You Should Vote “No” on Amendment #2
- Florida: Voting on the Amendments on the Ballot
- Who Are the Top 10 Donors in the Presidential Race?
- Ohio: Vote YES on Issue 1 to De-politicize Gerrymandering
- Sarah Longwell: An Appeal to Republicans
- Washington Post Loses at Least 250K Subscribers After Non-Endorsement
- Ted Cruz Turns to Anti-Trans Issue to Save His Senate Seat
- Massachusetts: Vote YES On Question 2 to Remove State Test as a Graduation Requirement
October 2024
- Trump calls Kamala and Her Team “Scum” and “Garbage”
- James Fallows Interviews Himself about the Election: Is Trump Closing the GOP Tent?
- Kentucky Catholic School Student: Vote NO on Vouchers
- Jonathan V. Last: Oligarchy is on the Rise
- Trump Called the U.S. “a Garbage Can for the World”
- Trump Says He Will Protect Women “Whether They Like It or Not”
- Talking Points Memo: The Phony Firestorm Over Biden’s Gaffe
- Washington Post: Trump’s Vulgarity Drags the Nation’s Politics into the Gutter
- New York Times: Trump’s Public Profanity Brings American Politics to a New Low
- Trump Calls Madison Square Garden Rally “an Absolute Love Fest”
- Washington Post Editorial: If January 6 was “a Day of Love,” What Does a Day of Hate Look like?”
- Kamala Agreed to Do “The Joe Rogan Show” But He Set Conditions She Would Not Meet
- Barbara Bush, Daughter of GW Bush, is Campaigning for Kamala
- Ronald Reagan vs. Stephen Miller on Immigration
- Trump’s Madison Square Garden Rally: A Disaster
- Eugene Robinson: Harris, Trump, and the Media’s Double Standard
- Brookings Institution: What Project 2025 Means for Education
- Why Are So Few Employers Using a Federal Program to ID Undocumented Immigrants
- Alexandra Petri: WaPo Humorist Endorses Kamala, as Her Publisher Refuses to
- How Is It Possible that Trump and Harris Are Statistically Tied?
- Two Great Speeches: Michelle Obama and Kamala Harris
- Trump to Netanyahu: “Do What You Have to Do”
- Women of America: Do You Trust Trump to Protect You?
- Why I Did Not Cancel My Subscription to the Washington Post
- Washington Post: Trump Is Unhinged and Unfit for Office
- Washington Post: 17 Opinion Writers Disagree with Bezos’ Fiat to Stop Endorsing For President
- Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post: “I Dissent”
- Orlando Sentinel Will No Longer Endorse Candidates for President, Governor, or U.S. Senate
- Breaking News: The Washington Post Will NOT Endorse a Candidate for President!
- Margaret Sullivan: Are the Media Fair? Should They Be?
- Will Saletan: Trump Is Running as a Fascist
- CNN Searched for the Maker of Trump Watches and Dead-Ended in Wyoming
- Los Angeles Times: Owner Orders No Endorsement in Presidential Race; Editor Resigns in Protest
- Sarah Longwell: Trump’s Defenders Belittle General Kelly
- Generals John Kelly and Mark Milley Agree: Trump is a Wannabe Fascist
- Tennessee: Governor Lee Demands Vouchers for All Students, Rich and Poor Alike
- Politico: Tim Walz Takes on Elon Musk, Fearlessly!
- Should Democrats Sign Elon Musk’s Petition? YES!
- D.C.: Celebrated Charter School Closes Its Doors Abruptly
- Russia Smears Tim Walz in Fake Videos
- Carl J. Petersen: Selecting a New Member for the Los Angeles School Board
- Founding Fathers: Why the U.S. is NOT a Christian Nation
- Peter Greene: Vouchers Are on the Ballot in Three States
- Borowitz: When Did the New York Times Fall in Love with Trump?
- “60 Minutes” Rejects Trump’s Claim of Pro-Kamala Bias
- Florida: “A Man Is Nothing Without His Conscience”
- John Thompson: Is Oklahoma’s Governor Cruel or Dumb or Both?
- ProPublica: Why Low-Income Parents in Arizona Are Not Using Vouchers
- Obama on Trump Blaming Immigrants for Everything: Must Watch
- Trump Insists to Journalists: “No Fact Checks”
- Quikwrit: Is the U.S. an Oligarchy?
- Democracy: Trump, the GOP, and Racism
- Melting Glaciers Produce Long-Lost Corpses: Climate Change Is Real
- Team Trump Is in Talks with Nikki Haley to Create a Joint Event
- General Mark Hertling on the Traits of a Successful Leader
- Eugene Robinson: Bret Baier Showed FOX Viewers How Smart and Strong Kamala Is
- New York Times: Trump Administration Approved Gender-Affirming Care to Prisoners!
- Will Wisconsin Elect a Jerk to the Senate?
- MAGA on Climate Change: Are They Lying or Stupid?
- Heather Cox Richardson: Harris Won the Debate with FOX News
- Judge Chutkan Rejects Trump’s Request for More Discovery of Documents
- Two Billionaires in Texas Want to Make America a Christian Nation
- Texas: State Agency Clears Mike Miles of Charges
- Michael Podhorzer: The Electoral College Is Legal But Not Legitimate
- The American Prospect: AI is Shredding the Social Safety Net
- Racism, Hate, Division, Lies: Another Day in the Trump Campaign
- Joe Biden Spoke in Pennsylvania today: He’s Sounding Great!
- Georgia: Judge Overturns Hand Count of Votes
- Jennifer Rubin: The Lies of Donald Trump
- Colorado: Vote to Save Public Education from Voucher Vultures!
- Why Charter Schools Fail: An Analysis of Charter Closures from 1998-2022 by the Network for Public Education
- Historian Timothy Snyder on Mass Deportations
- Greg Olear: The Trump-Vance Fascistic Plan to Solve the Housing Shortage
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump Goes Full-Blown Fascist
- North Carolina: “Armed Militia” Threatens Federal Emergency Workers
- Read This Tweet and Pray to Save Our Country from Religious Cults
- Michael Hiltzik: Comparing the Budget Plans of Harris and Trump
- Tom Friedman: Making Sense of the Middle East Crises
- Indiana: Vote for Jennifer McCormick for Governor
- Mercedes Schneider: The X-Rated Posts by Mark Robinson That CNN Would Not Reproduce
- Trump Demands That FCC Withdraw CBS License After Harris Interview on 60 Minutes
- An Interview with the Author of “The Art of the Deal”
- Ron Filipkowski: A Roundup of Political News
- President Obama Delivers a Passionate Speech About Trump’s Incompetence and Harris’s Strength
- Thom Hartmann: Jill Stein, Grifter
- Greg Olear: John Roberts and His Successful Attack on Voting Rights
- Michael Tomasky: Mainstream Media Doesn’t Cover Trump’s Worst Insults
- How Democracies Become Autocracies, By Burrowing from Within
- John Thompson Reviews Max Boot’s New Book, “Reagan”
- Media Matters: A Definitive Guide to Project 2025
- Kamala Harris and Tim Walz on “60 Minutes”
- Creator of Fake Biden Robocall Fined $6 Million
- Timothy Snyder on Trump’s Hitlerian Month
- Former FBI Agent: What Trump Says About Guns, Crime, and Drugs Is Wrong
- A Note to a Reader about October 7
- Revealed: Trump Sent COVID Tests to Putin in 2020. Best Buddies!
- Massachusetts: Voters Likely to Oppose State Test as Graduation Requirement
- Lone Star Left: JD Vance Was Wrong About Guns
- Rick Hess: Don’t Worry So Much About Trump 2.0 and Education
- Trump Describes His Plans for Education
- AFT Lifts Up the Voices of Israelis and Palestinians
- I Will Speak at Salisbury U. In Maryland Tuesday at 7 pm
- Heather Cox Richardson: How Trump Weaponizes His Lies
- New York Times: Trump’s Rambling Speeches Reflect His Advanced Age and/or Cognitive Decline
- Arizona: Is the State Education Chief Incompetent…Or Worse?
- Right Before Hurricane, These Republicans Voted AGAINST FEMA Funding
- Washington Post Fact-Checks Trump on Hurricane Claims
- Heather Cox Richardson: Lies, Lies, and More Lies
- Colorado: Parents Push Back Against Right-Wing Social-Studies Standards
- Economic Policy Institute: Vouchers Undermine Opportunity
- David Wallace-Wells: The Tragedy of Hurricane Helene
- Jan Resseger: Two Decades of Tax-Cutting in Ohio Have Helped the Rich and Harmed Public Services
- Dan Rather: Trump Threatens Democracy, More Than Ever
- The New Republic: Vance Lied about the GOP Position on Abortion in the Debate
- Tom Ultican: “The Science of Learning” is Another Hoax
- Michael Hiltzik: Trump’s Pathetic Lies About Obamacare and COVID
- Two Front Pages: 2016 and 2024
- Jack Smith’s Case Against Donald Trump for Launching a Failed Coup Attempt
- Rachel Maddow on JD Vance: Who Is He?
- Mother Jones: A Former Christian Nationalist Recants
- John Thompson: How the Federal Mandate for Testing Destroyed Teaching and Learning
- Washington Post Fact-Checker on the VP Debate
- What Trump Said Yesterday
- New Hampshire: The GOP Legislature Refuses to Pay for Adequate Education
- The New Republic: Trump’s Plan for the Economy Would Cause Massive Damage
- Mercedes Schneider: Project 2025: Politicking for Jesus
- Dana Milbank: “You Weren’t Supposed to Fact-Check Me!”
- The Vice-Presidential Debate: A Wash
- The Georgia Court Decision Overturning the Abortion Ban
- Eugene Robinson: Why Is the Presidential Election So Close?
- Umair Haque: Why Is the Presidential Election So Close?
September 2024
- Georgia: Court Overturns Abortion Ban!
- Please Help Those Who Are Working for People Affected by Hurricane Helene
- Brookings Institution: A View of Education in the Republican and Democratic Platforms
- Indiana: Most Private Schools Taking Vouchers Are Nearly All Tax-Subsidized
- Scientific American Endorses Kamala Harris
- Vermont: Court Upholds Dubious Appointment of Underqualified State Chief
- Trump Is Now Selling Overpriced “Trump Watches”
- Leonie Haimson: Mayoral Control of Schools Has Failed in NYC
- Media and Democracy Project Pickets New York Times: Stop Sanewashing Trump!
- Jennifer Rubin: Kamala Defies Her Critics with Concrete Economic Plans
- Judd Legum: DeSantis Bans Accurate Sex Education
- John Thompson: Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Wants Schools to Teach MAGA Worldview
- Tom Ultican: The Plutocrat Privatizers Target Delaware
- General McChrystal Endorses Kamala Harris
- Brazil Banned Twitter; Three Weeks Later, Elon Musk Folded
- Charlie Sykes on Laura Loomer
- Chris Tomlinson: Do Politicians Have a First Amendment Right to Ban Books?
- Network for Public Education Launches National Center on Charter School Accountability
- Peter Greene: Why Sex Scandals Matter
- ProPublica: Georgia GOP Legislators Killed Amber Nicole Thurman
- Imagining Trump’s Immigrant Detention Camps
- Rex Huppke: JD Vance Ate My Dog. Elon Musk Ate My Cat. Does Trump Care?
- UPenn Imposes Major Sanctions on Law Professor Amy Wax
- Joyce Vance: Women! Would You Rather Be a Stepford Wife or a Handmaid?
- Ohio: Sheriff Threatens Democratic Voters
- Peter Greene: Will Colorado Voters Be Wise Enough to Oppose This Ballot Measure?
- Unprecedented: Trump Sells Merch That Lines His Pocket, not the Campaign’s Coffers
- Washington Post: Elon Musk’s False Tweets Are Misleading the Public about Elections
- Project 2025 Calls for a Resumption of Nuclear Testing: A Terrible Idea!
- A Message to Trump from His Base: Words Matter
- Billy Townsend: Why Do People Vote for an Aging Wannabe Dictator?
- Harold Meyerson: What Happened to the Teamsters?
- Florida: State Health Officials Try to Derail Abortion Amendment
- Georgia: Pro-Trump State Elections Board Orders Hand Count of 2024 Elections
- Jonathan V. Last: Who Will Republicans in Springfield, Ohio, Vote For?
- Brookings: Post-Pandemic Absenteeism Rates Have Soared. Why?
- David Frum: This Is What a Losing Campaign Looks like
- Trump Warns of Dire Consequences for Israel if Jews Don’t Vote for Him
- CNN: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Has a Long History of Loving Porn
- The New Republic: Where Trump Goes, Chaos Follows
- David Dayen: Trump Doesn’t Understand Basic Economics
- Ohio Is Funding the Construction and Renovation of Religious Schools
- Michael Hiltzik: Trump Was an Anti-Union, Anti-Worker President
- Robert Reich: The GOP Voted Against Protecting IVF
- Trump Spoke in Nassau County, New York, Tonight. More Lies
- Jay Kuo: Trump Has “Jumped the Shark” in His Desperation
- NCPE: Voucher Costs Are Rising Dramatically Above Budget Projections
- Michael Hiltzik: Trump and Vance Are Wrong About Tariffs: They Raise Consumer Prices and Inflation!
- Webinar: Public Funding for Religious Schools?
- Timothy Snyder Launches His New Book in Ukraine, Underground
- Johaan Neem: How to Respond to a Candidate Who Threatens Political Violence and Our Constitution?
- Florida: University President Sasse Spent Lavishly on Parties
- Florida: Who Is the Worst College President in the State? Sasse or Corcoran?
- Carl A. Cohn: How to End the Culture Wars in Our Schools
- Thoughts and Prayers for Former President Trump
- Do Parents Always Know What’s Best for Their Children? NO.
- No Sanewashing of Trump at The Washington Post!
- Jamelle Bouie: JD Vance Should Resign in Shame!
- John McWhorter on Trump’s Rhetorical “Weave”
- North Carolina: Republicans Pass “Massive” Voucher Expansion
- Trump ❤️ Laura Loomer
- Best Song of the Day!
- John Legend: Let Haitian Immigrants Pursue the American Dream
- Linda Ronstadt Endorses Kamala Harris and Tim Walz
- Russia Closes Down Access to YouTube
- Florida: School District Restores 36 Banned Books, to Settle Lawsuit
- “All-Charter No More!”: New Orleans Opens Its First Traditional Public School in 20 Years
- North Dakota: Judge Overturns State’s Near-Total Ban on Abortion
- Michael A. Cohen: This Debate Might Make a Difference
- Chris Tomlinson: Will the Debate Matter?
- Karl Rove on the Big Debate: A “Train Wreck” for Trump
- South Carolina: State Supreme Court Overturns Vouchers
- Liz Cheney: A Profile in Courage
- Kamala Harris Was Great in the Debate!
- Fred Smith: Nine Weeks Before Christmas!
- Tom Nicholson: The First Question for Trump Should Be….
- Lawrence O’Donnell Shows How the New York Times “Sane-Washed” Trump
- Margaret Sullivan on “Sanewashing” Trump
- If You Are Able to Open Tweets, Please Open This One
- John Merrow: Education and the 2024 Election
- The Biggest Issue in 2024 Election: The U.S. Supreme Court
- John Thompson: How the Media Should Cover Trump
- The Full Trump Speech in Mosinee, Wisconsin
- Washington Post: Behind the Russian Effort to Sow Division in the U.S.
- Politico: Why the Kremlin Loves Social Media
- Heather Cox Richardson: The Russian Campaign to Destroy Our Democracy
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump Goes Off the Rails
- North Carolina Alert! GOP Plans to Slip in $248 Million for Vouchers on Monday
- Mercedes Schneider: The Great Arizona Dune Buggy Fiasco
- Arizona: Should Taxpayers Pay for Trampolines, LEGO Sets, and Dune Buggies?
- Tucker Carlson Interviews Holocaust Denier
- New York Times Portrays Trump’s and Vance’s Incoherence re Child care Costs
- Georgia: Father of Teenage Shooter Arrested and Charged
- NYC Schools Chancellor: Immigrants Are a “Godsend”
- Trump Serves Word Salad When Asked About His Plan to Help with Cost of Childcare
- The Wisdom of Arne Duncan (Not)
- Moms4Liberty Meet and Embrace Trump, Of Course
- CNN: Musk’s Anti-Kamala Tweets Are Getting More Extreme
- Breaking News! Liz Cheney Will Vote for Kamala!
- Georgia: Another School Shooting; 14-Year-Old Student in Custody
- Wow! Trump Admits That He Lost the 2020 Election!
- John McCain’s Military Son Switches Party, Endorses Kamala
- Florida: Is DeSantis’s Star Declining?
- Dana Milbank: Trump Is Just Plain Vulgar!
- Thom Hartmann on CNN Interview of Harris and Walz
- Margaret Sullivan: False Equivalence Between Harris and Trump in The New York Times
- CBS News Interviewed Biden After He Stepped Aside
- Biden and Harris Bring the Campaign to Pittsburgh for Labor Day
- Elon Musk Posts Fake Image of Kamala in Communist Uniform
- Bernie Sanders on the Importance of Labor Day
- Meanwhile, in Israel…A Time for Truth
- Happy Labor Day!
- Lottery Scams in Mass. and Texas: How to Beat the System, Win Millions, and (Maybe) Get Away with It
- Jennifer Rubin: Brave Republicans and Those Who Are M.I.A.
- Cornell and Harvard Adopt Policy of Neutrality on Hot Issues
August 2024
- Mary Trump: Why Isn’t the Army Prosecuting Convicted Felon Trump for Breaking the Law Again?
- Ruth Marcus: Why President Harris Should Not Pardon Former President Trump
- Arizona: Surprise! State Board Says Parent May Not Use Voucher $$ to Buy Dune Buggies
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump Has Remade the GOP in His Image
- Was Trump’s Event at Arlington National Cemetery OK?
- RFK and the Whale! Talk About Weird!
- Pierre Tristam: The Great Florida Voucher Swindle! Welfare for the Rich!
- U.S. Supreme Court Blocks Latest Biden Plan to Forgive Student Debt
- Thom Hartmann: Republicans Are the Party of Cruelty
- Paul Krugman: Why Do Republicans Oppose Free Lunches for Children?
- More than 200 Staffers for Bush, Romney and McCain Endorse Kamala Harris
- Michael Hiltzik: No, Kamala Is Not Proposing Price Controls
- Borowitz Report: Study Finds That People Exposed to JD Vance Lose All Interest in Procreating
- Dan Rather: Trump Is Lying About Project 2025
- Jill Lawrence: No, Kamala is Not a Communist, a Socialist, or a Nixon!
- Peter Greene: Call Them by Their Names
- John Thompson: Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters Is in Hot Water!
- Heather Cox Richardson: Democrats Offer a New Vision for America
- Trump Judge Rules that Machine Guns Are Legal
- The Democrats Are Rebranding the Party
- Jennifer Rubin: What the Democratic Convention Revealed about Both Parties
- Scott Dworkin: Don’t Normalize Trump! Advice to the Media.
- The Bulwark: A Great Night for Harris, a Bad Night for Trump
- A Dark Day in Arkansas As Court Rejects Abortion Referendum
- Elie Honig: What Will Happen to Jack Smith’s Case Against Trump Now?
- Michael Tomasky: Trump is Going Into a Meltdown Phase
- The Status Kuo: Why Tim Walz Drives MAGAts Crazy
- Florida: Moms 4 Liberty Lose Key School Board Races!
- The Best Speeches at the Democratic Convention Last Night
- Jonathan V. Last: A Tribute to the Old Man Who Saved Democracy Twice
- Republican Judge J. Michael Luttig Endorses Kamala Harris
- RFK Jr. Considering Dropping Out of Race and Endorsing Trump
- The First Night of the Democratic Convention Was Great!
- Trump Claims That Democrats Staged a Coup by Replacing Biden
- Robert Hubbell Denounces Washington Post Editorial on Kamala’s Economic Plan
- Umair Haque: Kamala’s Economic Policies Are “Brilliant”!
- Houston: Enrollment Drops by 9,000
- Peter Greene: Conservatives Think States Can Support Both Public Schools and “Choice.” They Can’t.
- Dean Baker: The Little-Known Biden-Harris Success Story
- Right-Wingers Claim Tim Walz Was Not Really a Coach; GOP Investigates Whether He Is a Spy for China
- Josh Marshall: Why Kamala Harris Has Not Released Policy Papers or Given Interviews
- Jess Piper: Abortion Is on the Ballot in Missouri!
- A Former Student Describes Tim Walz’s Character
- Tim Walz Comes Home to Nebraska Today!
- Trump Insults Veterans Again
- Thom Hartmann: Scams, Corruption and the Election
- Orlando Sentinel: President of University of Florida Cashed In on Staff and Consultants
- Dan Rather: Elon Musk Pushes Lies and Fake News
- Ohio: Cost of Vouchers Soars to $966 Million a Year—from $124 Million
- Texas: The Fight Against Vouchers Continues
- Lawrence O’Donnell: Wake Up, Reporters! Do Your Job
- The New Republic: Tim Walz Is the Best Antidote to the Poison and Lies of FOX News
- North Carolina: Republican Candidate for State Superintendent is an Extremist and Crackpot
- The Rescue of Four Children in the Amazon: A Good Read
- Paul Krugman: Are Immigrants Taking Jobs Away from the Native-Born?
- Washington Post: A Biased View of Tim Walz’s Record on Education
- Massive Hack Exposes Personal Info of Everyone!
- USA Today: The Musk-Trump Lovefest on Twitter
- Ukraine: The Mouse That Roared?
- Trump Sues the U.S. Justice Department for $115 Million for Documents Search of His Home
- Report: The Worst Three Weeks of Trump’s 2024 Campaign
- Is that JD Vance in Drag?
- Comparing the Net Worth of Tim Walz and JD Vance
- Milwaukee: Three Decades of Charters and Vouchers Produced No Gains for Kids
- Trump Lies About Kamala’s Crowd in Detroit
- Meidas Touch: Trump’s Infantile Behavior
- Adam Kinzinger: The Despicable Attacks on Walz’s Military Service
- Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Keep Laughing. Authoritarians Can’t Tolerate Ridicule
- Trump Insists His Helicopter Story Is True and Promises to Produce the Records—But Doesn’t
- The NY Times Published a Story about a Social Studies Class in Nebraska in 2008
- John Thompson: Elders for Kamala Zoom for a Better World
- New Poll Shows Kamala Surging Past Trump in Key States
- Mary Trump: Keep Talking, Donald!
- Walz Left the National Guard Before His Unit Learned about Deployment to Iraq, Says Man Who Served Under Him
- The New Yorker: The Sad Story of RFK Jr.’s Life
- Kamalamania!!!
- Politico: Why NC Governor Did Not Want to Be Vetted for Kamala’s VP
- Paul Offit: Trump Threatens to Defund Schools That Mandate Vaccines for Kids
- Thrilling Event at the Olympics!
- Houston: Mass Exodus of Teachers Under Mike Miles
- Oklahoma: Tips on Teaching the Bible in Your Public School Classroom
- Oklahoma: Is the State Superintendent too Radical for the Public?
- Jess Piper: A Rural Democrat Celebrates Tim Walz
- Politico: Almost Everything You Need to Know About Tim Walz
- Andy Borowitz: Trump Questions When Walz Turned White
- Trump Congratulates Putin—Yes, Putin—on Prisoner Exchange
- Kamala Picks Tim Walz as Her Vice-Presidential Nominee!!!
- Keep Smiling and Laughing, Vice President Harris
- Trump Goes Psycho in Georgia
- Chris Tomlinson: Project 2025 Was Born in Texas
- New Hampshire: Voucher Program Aims to Destroy Public Schools
- Robert Hubbell: Get Ready for the Media to Turn Cynical
- Most U.S. Pharma Companies Make Big Profits, Pay No Taxes
- New Study: Increased School Spending Reduces Child Mortality
- Steve Ruis: Christians Should Not Support Trump
- Jim Hightower: The Real Purpose of Project 2025
- Forbes: It’s Easy to Crack Your Passwords
- The Atlantic: What Happens When Streets are Closed to Cars and Open for Play?
- Simone Biles: “I Love My ‘Black Job’”
- Anand Girihadaras: Yes, Kamala Is Both
- Trump Doubles Down on his Racist Remarks about Kamala
- Robert Hubbell: The Gifts That Joe Biden Has Given Us
- Biden Administration Negotiates Historic Prisoner Swap with Russia
- Slate: Silicon Valley Loves J.D.Vance
- The Hartman Report: Please Don’t Lie to Students!
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump’s Belligerent Response to Black Journalists
July 2024
- Jennifer Rubin: The He-Man Woman-Haters’ Ticket
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump Can’t Escape Project 2025
- ProPublica: How Vouchers Almost Bankrupted Arizona
- President Joe Biden Recommends Reform of Supreme Court
- A Few Memorable Rants from Trump’s Speeches
- American Prospect: Tim Walz Is the Best Choice for Kamala’s Veep
- ProPublica: J.D. Vance Says Trust Alex Jones, Not Rachel Maddow
- Umair Haque: Code Red for Democracy!
- Governors Roy Cooper and Andy Beshear: Real Democrats Support Real Public Schools!
- Celine Dion: A Magnificent, Courageous Performance at the Olympics!
- Texas: New Vending Machine Sells Bullets
- Project 2025: A Recipe for Disaster!
- Louisiana Criminalizes Abortion Pills
- Public Education Advocates Urge Kamala Harris to Select a VP Who Opposes Privatization
- Mary Trump: Is America in Cognitive Decline?
- NYC High School Senior, Child of Immigrants, Accepted at 28 Colleges
- Thom Hartmann: J.D. Vance on Kamala Harris. He Is a Misogynist
- Fact-Checking What Vance Said about Kamala
- Randi Weingarten: The Moment We Are In
- J.D. Vance is Worse Than and as Dangerous as Trump!
- A Prominent Democrat Denounced Vouchers on National TV!
- Jonathan V. Last on Biden’s Graceful Farewell
- Ha’aretz: Netanyahu’s Duplicitous Speech to Congress
- John Merrow: The Biggest Problem with the Trump-Biden Debate
- Memo to Kamala: Don’t Pick Josh Shapiro as VP!
- GOP Wants to Criminalize Porn: Is Trump a Hypocrite?
- Florida: Climate Change Kills Off Last of a Rare Species of Tree
- Rachael Maddow: Who Is J.D. Vance?
- Mercedes Schneider: Politicking for Jesus
- Andy Borowitz: Biden Uses His New Immunity Power to Replace Judge Cannon with his Dog Commander
- Never-Trumpers Respond to the New Political Scene
- Dean Obeidiallah: Trump’s Worst Nightmare
- George Conway Sets Up “Anti-Psychopath PAC”
- Jared Kushner Agrees to Build an Anti-NATO Memorial in Serbia
- Greg Olear: Do You Know Who Introduced Trump at the GOP Convention?
- Carol Kocivar: Democrats Vs. Trump on the Future of Public Education
- Biden Leaves the Presidential Race
- Jennifer Rubin: Kamala Harris Would Be a Great Candidate
- Project 2025, in Brief
- James Fallows: Why Does the Press have a Double Standard for Trump and Biden?
- Jess Piper: Missouri Is a Christian Nationalist State, Despite the U.S. Constitution
- Jay Kuo: Vance is More MAGA than Trump
- Heather Cox Richardson Reviews the Last Night of the Republican Convention
- The Daily Yonder: What Project 2025 Promises Rural America: Nothing!
- The Men Who Made the Boat by Hand
- Jay Kuo: We Can Beat This Guy!
- Washington Post Fact-Checks Trump’s Acceptance Speech
- Susan B. Glasser: A Report on Trump’s Acceptance Speech
- The Wave of the Future: Surge Pricing for Everything
- Reader: What You Need to Know About Medicare Advantage Plans
- Will Bunch on the Republican Convention and the Cult of Trump
- A Handmade Boat In Sterling Harbor, Long Island—the Antithesis of AI
- Dan Rather on the Republican Convention
- Thom Hartmann: Supreme Court Is Turning U.S. into a Banana Republic
- Arthur Goldstein: An Open Letter to Michael Mulgrew, President of NYC’s Union
- Politico: Party Leaders Pressure Biden to Step Aside
- My Twitter Account Has Been Hacked and Suspended: Please Complain to X on My Behalf
- Nebraska: Public School Supporters Fight Vouchers
- Dr. Paul Offit: A Frightening Talk Between Trump and RFK Jr.
- David Frum: Violence: You Reap What You Sow
- Jay Kuo: Judge Aileen Cannon’s Absurd Decision to Find Special Prosecutor Unconstitutional
- Project 2025: What Happens to K-12 in a New Trump Term?
- Help! My Twitter Account Has Been Hacked!
- CNN Fact-Checks the Republican Convention
- Will Saletan: The GOP Is Now a Fully Isolationist Party
- Politico: 55 Things to Know About J.D. Vance
- North Carolina: Voucher Schools Should Be Held Accountable
- The New Republic: Trump Is Still a Danger to Our Society
- John Thompson: Ryan Walters Appoints Extremists to Revise Oklahoma Social Studies Curriculum
- Milwaukee: GOP Extremism Survives
- The New Republic on New Poll: The Public Doesn’t Want a Liar as President
- Florida: New Law Undermines Unions
- Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden for President!
- Jay Kuo on the Fallout from the Assassination Attempt
- Wacky Heritage Foundation Report Warns that Charter Schools Are “Woke”
- Michael Hiltzik: Is Rational Thinking Possible on Gun Policy?
- Trump Assassination Attempt: Yes, This Is Who We Are
- Trump Apparently Shot at Rally, Minor Wound
- Watch This for the Best Giggles of the Day!
- Heather Cox Richardson: Do We Really Want to Roll Back Civil Rights for Women and Blacks?
- Warning! Dangerous Hate Group Threatens the Future of Our Democracy!
- North Carolina: Five Words for Voters: “And You’re OK with That?”
- Biden on Fire at Detroit Rally! LINK TO RALLY ADDED!
- Florida: Two Festival Groups Offer to Abandon State Funding to Protect 600 Arts Groups
- Jennifer Rubin: It’s About Time for Investigation of Justice Thomas!
- Jay Kuo: Two Democratic Senators Call for Special Counsel to Investigate Justice Clarence Thomas
- Lisa Haver: Pennsylvania Must Avoid the Voucher Scam
- Biden’s Press Conference
- Arkansas Officials Disqualify Petition for Abortion Referendum
- Peter Greene on a Bill to Ban Federal Funding of For-Profit Charter Schools
- Florida: Textbook Authors Told to Delete References to Climate Change
- Robert Hubbell: Joe Biden Is Running to Protect Democracy Against Tyranny
- Heather Cox Richardson: Republicans Continue Efforts to Cripple Federal Government
- Jim Hightower: We Can’t Let the Supreme Court Destroy Our Democracy
- Florida Turns Down $259 Million in Federal Funds to Feed Hungry Children
- The Case of Shani Robinson, Wrongly Accused of Cheating in Atlanta, Is Finally Resolved
- Biden Gave Highest Civilian Honor to NATO Leader. Who Did Trump Honor?
- Dan Rather: A Dangerous Double Standard
- Peter Greene Debunks the Leading Evangelist for the School Choice Movement
- Why Democrats and the Media Love to Pull Down Democratic Candidates
- Chris Hayes: What Is Project 2025? A Frightening Plan for Trump’s Next Term: LINK ADDED
- Robert Reich: Project 2025 Gives Evangelicals All They Want
- Aaron Rupar: What’s Behind Project 2025?
- Nancy Bailey: Project 2025 Will Hurt Students with Disabilities
- Heather Cox Richardson: How Will Project 2025 Affect the Election?
- Stuart Stevens: The Absurdity of the Dump-Biden Revolt
- Arkansas Voucher Advocates, Terrified by Possibility of Referendum, Block It
- The New Republic: If Joe Biden Were as Ruthless as Trump
- Politico: RFK Jr.’s Unsavory Past, Reported in Vanity Fair
- Senator Sanders Releases Report Assailing Billionaire-Funded Voucher Movement
- Arkansas: Volunteers Collect Enough Signatures to Put Abortion on the Ballot
- Biden: “I’m Staying in the Race!”
- Will Arkansas Citizens Demand Accountability for Voucher Schools?
- John Thompson: Is AI a Boon or a Danger?
- “Democracy”: Jeff Bezos Is Betraying the Guiding Principles of The Washington Post
- Christiane Amanpour Interviews Heather Cox Richardson about Biden vs. Trump: A Must-See!
- This is How Democracy Ends: Trump Calls for Arrest and Conviction of His Political Enemies
- July 4, 2024: Democracy on the Brink
- Seth Abramson: Why MAGA Wants Biden to Step Down
- Heather Cox Richardson: The Supreme Court Amended Our Constitution
- Why the New York Times Is Hypercritical of Biden While Treating Trump as Normal
- Greg Olear: Six Justices Doing Their Best to End American Democracy
- Jamelle Boule: “If the President Does It, It’s Not Illegal”
- The Worst Supreme Court Decision in Our Lifetime
- The Private Corporation that Owns the Hospital Where I Was Born Goes Bankrupt
- My Best Birthday Present Ever!
June 2024
- Sabrina Haake: “I’ll Take an Old Man Over a Conman Any Day of the Week”
- Andrew Tobias: Watch This Clip and Think Again
- Philadelphia Inquirer: Donald Trump Should Get Out of the Race!
- What is a “Gish Gallop”?
- Michael Tomasky: How to Defeat a Convicted Felon
- Peter Greene: Religious Zealots in Oklahoma React to Court Decision Barring Religious Charter School
- Thomas Goff Sums Up the Debate Best: Have We Gone Completely Nuts?
- Steve Bannon Is Going to Prison; SCOTUS Rejects His Appeal
- My View: How Should We Judge the Debate: Biden v. Trump?
- Heather Cox Richardson: How Does Trump Get Away with Non-Stop Lying?
- James Fallows: A Bad Night for America, for Facts, and for Truth
- Robert Hubbell: “Joe Biden Is Going to Win! Buck up!”
- Dana Milbank: A Big Night for the Big Lie and for All Size Lies
- Tim O’Brien: Biden Should Consider Stepping Aside
- Scott Maxwell: The Most Disgusting, Inhumane Law Passed by the Florida Legislature
- Ohio: Charter Schools Ripping Off Taxpayers
- The Debate: A Big Downer
- Oklahoma: Supt. Ryan Walters Orders Public Schools to Teach the Bible
- Dan Rather: Trump’s Rambling Diatribes Not Normal
- Thom Hartmann: We Need Protection from Religious Zealotry
- Florida: School Board Bans Book about Banning Books!
- Kathy Gebhardt Wins State Board Race in Colorado, Despite Dark Money
- Justice Thomas Stands Up For the 2nd Amendment Rights of Violent Spousal Abusers
- Robert Hubbell: The Supreme Court’s Wacky Spin on Gun Control
- CNN Report Blasts Vouchers in Arizona
- Breaking News! Oklahoma Supreme Court Rejects Religious Charter School!
- South Carolina Imposes Sweeping Book Censorship on School Libraries
- New Hampshire: Why the GOP Is Determined to Destroy Public Schools
- UFT President Drops Effort to Force Retirees into For-Profit Medicare Advantage Plan
- Lithwick and Ornstein: A Last Chance for Democracy?
- Ohio: The Corrupt GOP Politicians Defunding Public Schools and Their Students
- Jeff Bezos Interrupts His Holiday to Comment on the Mess at The Washington Post
- Washington Post Covers the Scandals Associated with Its New Leadership
- Why Are Murdoch Veterans Taking Over the Washington Post?
- Louisiana: Attacks on Librarians Intensify and Inspire Fear and Courage
- Louisiana Requires “10 Commandments” in Every Public School Classroom
- Dana Milbank: Trump Plays the Fascist Card
- Florida: Three Moms Fight Back against Book Bans
- NYC Prosecutors Seek to Extend Trump Gag Order Because Of Death Threats
- North Carolina: GOP Plans to Approve Politically Connected Charter School Without Usual State Review
- “Democracy”: Where’s the “Conflict” in the Georgia Case Against Trump
- Steve Ruis: Why Did the Supreme Court Take the Abortion Pill Case?
- Thom Hartmann: The 50-Year Trump MAGA Reich?
- Jennifer Rubin: Which Candidate is “Fit” to be President?
- Jan Resseger: Defunding Public Education with Vouchers and Tax Cuts
- NYC: Why Retirees Turned Against Their Own Union Leadership
- What Trump Promised to Do for Israel if He Is Elected
- Chicago: Community Schools Are a Better Strategy than “Education Reform”
- John Thompson: Oklahoma Hurtles Toward Environmental Disaster
- Texas: School District Votes to Delete Textbook Chapters on Climate Change, Cultural Diversity, Vaccines
- Carol Burris Endorses Kathy Gebhardt for Colorado State Board of Education
- Brookings Institution: Beware Voucher Advocacy Disguised as Research
- Arizona: Universal Vouchers Are a Handout to the Wealthy
- Deep-Fake Videos Ridiculing Biden, Made by GOP, Promoted by Murdoch
- Peter Greene: Dark Money Pours into Race for Colorado State Board of Education
- Pennsylvania: The Abysmal Academic Performance of Cybercharters
- Texas: Yes, There Are Huge Differences Between Democrats and the GOP!
- Thom Hartmann: The Billionaires Supporting Trump Are Digging Their Own Graves
- Robert Hubbell: Clarence Thomas Is Now the Nation’s Leading Gun Expert
- The Supreme Court’s Insane Decision to Gut Ban on Bump Stocks for Guns
- Harold Meyerson: Elon Musk Demands a Payout of $50 Billion or He Will Leave Tesla
- States Are Spending Billions on Vouchers, Mostly for Religious Schools
- Peter Greene: Putting Chaplains in Schools is a Very Bad Idea
- Mary Trump: Uncle Sam or the Crazy Convicted Felon Uncle?
- Nevada: MAGA Locals Demand Recall of Republican Elections Clerk
- Tom Ultican: The Failure of the Nation’s Only All-Charter District, New Orleans
- Dahlia Lithwick: How Religious Zealots Gained Control of the Courts and the GOP
- Heather Cox Richardson: The “Madman” Planning Trump’s Second Term in Office
- Please Try to See the Great Exhibit on the Harlem Renaissance at the Met
- Texas: Republican Party Agrees on Plan to Kill Democracy
- Trump vs. Biden: This Is What “Unhinged” Looks Like
- Biden Vs. Trump on D-Day, History and the World Order
- Alaska: A Teacher Critiques the Harvard Charter School Study
- “Democracy”: Setting the Record Straight, Part 2: Yes, Putin Did Interfere in 2016 to Help Trump
- “Democracy”: Setting the Record Straight, Part 1: Which Presidential Candidate Does Putin Favor?
- Michelle H. Davis: Texas GOP Convention Gets More Deranged, Part 2
- Michelle H. Davis Watched the Texas GOP Convention to See What’s Ahead, Part 1
- Thom Hartmann: What Trump Predicted About Hillary Came True for Him
- Newark: Teachers Union Wins Five-Year Contract
- Disgusting! Pennsylvania GOP Legislators Jeer 2 Capitol Police Officers Who Defended Capitol on Jan. 6
- Nicholas Kristof Said It Best: The Moral Dilemma in Gaza
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Vouchers Are a Disaster
- Re-Elect Chris Reykdal as Superintendent of Public Instruction in Washington
- Arnie Alpert: A First-Hand Report from the Texas Border
- John Thompson: Can the Joy of Teaching and Learning Be Revived?
- Harvard Abandons Mandatory Diversity Statement
- Dr. Peter Offit: What Is “Gain-of-Function” Research? Why Republicans Are Wrong to Harass Dr. Fauci
- Stephen Dyer: Public School Funding in Ohio Drops Dramatically as “Choice” Expands
- Stephen Colbert on the Travails of Convicted Felon Donald Trump
- Trump Denies He Ever Said “Lock Her Up” about Hillary
- Marco Rubio Wants to be the VEEP to the Guy He Denounced as a “Con Man”
- Jan Resseger: Why Do Ohio Republicans Hate Public Schools?
- Carol Burris: Betsy DeVos Pays This Guy to Destroy Public Schools
- Texas: Money Can’t Always Buy Elections (But It Helps)
- Ken Burns on the Lessons of Life and History
- A Contest: What Should D.J. Trump’s Punishment Be?
- Idaho: High School Graduate Offers Banned Book to Superintendent at Commencement
- Scott Maxwell: Why Di$ney and De$antis Are Friends Again
May 2024
- Indiana: Vouchers Gain Momentum as Income Limits Are Removed
- Thom Hartmann: How Putin Helped Elect Trump in 2016
- Thomas Ultican: New Book by Reading Experts Debunks “Science of Reading”
- Register Now for NPE’s 2025 National Conference in Columbus, Ohio
- Florida: Home Schooling Numbers Increase with Public Funding
- Mississippi: Fourth-Grade Reading “Miracle” Disappears in 8th Grade
- Jessica Winter: The Looting of Public Schools
- Heather Cox Richardson: The Choice in 2024: Dignity vs. Rage
- Pasadena, CA: School Board Votes Against Including Charters in Parcel Tax
- Harvard Adopts a Policy of “Institutional Neutrality” on Political Issues
- Politico: Explosion of Choice in Florida Dooms Many Public Schools
- BREAKING NEWS: Federal Judge in New Hampshire Strikes Down “Divisive Concepts” Law
- Trump Vows to Crush Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests
- Texas: Governor Abbott’s Maniacal Passion for Vouchers
- Trump Turns to Hard-Right Evangelical Congressman to Advise Him on Education
- Jack Burgess: How War Ends
- “Democracy”: A War Hero Who Deserves To be Honored
- Memorial Day, 2024
- Jeff Stein: Searing Memorial Day Memories
- David Pepper: Democracy Wins in Missouri, for a Change
- Uvalde Families Sue Corporations That Encouraged School Shooter
- John Thompson: Oklahoma Struggles with Immigration: Common Decency or Hate?
- The Ominous Flag that Flew over Justice Alito’s Vacation Home
- House Republicans Attack University Presidents as “Anti-Semitic” for not Clearing Campus Protests
- Justice Clarence Thomas Attacks Brown Decision
- Idaho: A Conservative Republican Wins an Uphill Battle Against Extremists Who Run the State
- Greg Olear: Everything You Need to Know About Trump and the Threat to Democracy
- Thom Hartmann: How to Fix the Supreme Court’s Devotion to Big Money
- Jan Resseger: Why Vouchers Are Disastrous Public Policy
- David Beats Goliath! NYC Retirees Win Legal Battle to Stop City from Forcing Them into a Medicare Advantage Plan!
- Mercedes Schneider: Louisiana’s Very Bad, Horrible Voucher Plan
- Florida: DeSantis Signs Bill to Ignore Climate Change
- International Criminal Court Calls for Arrest of Leaders of Hamas and Israel
- Nancy Flanagan: Just Who Is Trashing Public Education?
- North Carolina: A Billionaire Who Wants to Destroy Public Schools
- Join Me at the Skinny Awards on June 12 in NYC!!
- Arkansas Supreme Court Furious at Judge Who Called Its Gun Ruling “LOCO”
- Gary Rubinstein: Time to Investigate Success Academy’s SPRINT Program
- Thom Hartmann: Will the Billionaires Destroy Our Society?
- Greg Olear: “Casablanca” Has a Message for Us Today
- Rightwing Group Uses Hidden Camera to Humiliate Educators
- Why the British Don’t Like Trump: His Character, Not His Politics
- Sarasota: Christian Ziegler “Prowled” Bars to Find Female Partners to Bring Home to Bridget
- New York Times: Justice Alito Flew an Upside-Down U.S. Flag, a Trump Symbol, at His Home After 2020 Election
- Carol Burris: New Data Show that Charter Schools Increase Segregation
- Georgia: Students Demand Fully Funded Public Schools, Not Vouchers!
- Steve Suitts: The New Segregation Looks Like the Old Segregation
- Houston: Congressmember Calls for Federal Investigation of HISD under Miles
- Alexandra Petri: A Message from the Worm That Ate Part of RFK Jr.’s Brain
- Haaretz: There Will Be a Palestinian State
- Why the Cost of Vet Care Has Soared
- Houston: Mike Miles Denies Transfer of Millions to His Colorado Charter Schools
- U of California at Berkeley Reaches Agreement with Student Protestors
- Bob Shepherd: The Most Important Burden on Teachers
- Trump Is Selling Pieces of the Suit He Wore When He Was Booked in Atlanta
- Scandal! Millions of $$ Flow from Texas to Colorado Charter Chain
- Trump Offers Oil Industry a Deal: Give Me $1 Billion and I Will Kill Environmental Regulations
- Correction: JITU’s ZOOM Starts at 6 pm CST, 7 pm EST
- Zoom Link for Meeting on Behalf of Jitu Brown: Tonight!
- Join Me Today in a Zoom with Jitu Brown: 6 p.m. CST, 7 pm EST!!
- Where Do We Stand Today in the Struggle to Save Public Schools?
- Peter Greene: Elon Musk Proclaims His Views about Fixing Education
- Heather Cox Richardson: Biden Exposes Trump’s Wisconsin Scam
- Join a Virtual House Party to Support Jitu Brown for Chicago School Board Tomorrow at 6 p.m. CST!
- Most of Trump’s Children Will Be Delegates to Republican Convention
- Houston: Miles Ousts Two 2023 Principals of the Year
- Washington Post: Putin Is Turning Russia into a Militaristic, Authoritarian Society
- Bernie Sanders on Biden and Gaza
- “Democracy”: The Theological Politics of Abortion
- Iowa Mandates “Science of Reading”
- Apple Apologizes for Offensive Ad Promoting iPad
- Houston: Mike Miles Announces Layoffs of Educators and Custodians
- Anand G.: A University President Who Respects Student Protest Without Pandering to Students
- New York City: Appeals Court Orders Desegregation Plan
- Nick Covington: What the “Science of Reading” Overlooks
- Thom Hartmann: The Close Connection Between Monopolies and Labor
- Georgia: GOP Former Lt. Gov. Endorses Biden
- Bad News for Bill Gates: Two Yachts Up for Sale
- Dana Milbank: Gaza Protestors Are Helping to Elect Trump, Who Won’t Tolerate Them
- The Last Body of the Baltimore Bridge Workers Recovered
- Samuel Abrams Is Stepping Down at the National Center on the Study of Privatization in Education
- Carl J. Petersen: The GOP Politician Who Is Tough Enough to Kill a Puppy
- Russians and Ukrainians March Together to Demand an End to Putin’s War
- John Thompson: The Cruelty of Doubling Down on the Big Standardized Test
- Netanyahu Threatens to Expand an Already Disastrous War in Gaza
- Michael Tomasky: Does Joe Biden Have “Absolute Immunity?” If He Does…
- Jan Resseger: How Book Bans and Censorship Are Hurting Children
- Good News! Connecticut Eliminates Religious Exemptions for Vaccines
- Jonathan V. Last: Biden Won the War on Crime!
- Should Librarians Be Jailed for Handing Out a Banned Book?
- Biden Sends $16 Billion to Texas for Clean Energy and Infrastructure: No Gratitude!
- Florida: Behind the Duelling Decisions About Abortion
- Tom Ultican: One Cheer for NCLB…But Not From Me!
- Surprise! Columbia Undergraduates Choose an Israeli as President
- D.C. Charter School Votes to Form a Union
- Gary Smith: How to Fix Higher Education!
- Ryan Walters Wants to Turn Our Schools into Religious Indoctrination Centers
- Rick Perlstein: Texas is a Fascist State
- Robert Hubbell: Trump Tells TIME What He Will Do if He Wins
- Catherine Rampell: Our Economy Is Booming Because of Immigrants
- Breaking News: Arizona Repeals 1864 Abortion Law!
- Carol Burris: Vermont Senate Rejects Charter Official as State Superintendent
- Forced Birth Laws Are Religious and Thus Violate the Constitution
- Are the Campus Protests Advancing Peace in the Middle East?
April 2024
- Texas: Rightwing Lt. Gov. Wants to Abolish Property Taxes and Public Schools
- Joel: Why Does the Media Lie About the Economy?
- Are Fetuses People, with the Rights of Other People?
- Greg Olear: Jared Kushner’s Ties to the National Enquirer
- Qatari Spokesman: Both Sides Are Blocking Peace Deal
- My Conversation about the State Takeover of Houston Public Schools on KPFT-Pacifica
- Florida: Should These Children Live or Die?
- New Orleans: A Failed Experiment
- ACLU: How to Protect Free Speech on Campus
- Indiana: Jennifer McCormick for Governor!!
- Rick Wilson: The “Both-Sides” Argument is Dangerous
- Jess Piper: It’s My State Too! I’m Not Moving!
- Eva Moskowitz May Expand “Success Academy” to Florida
- Will Bunch: The Scariest Part of a Trump Rally is not Trump
- Jim Hightower: George Orwell Would Understand the Texas GOP: Mean and Crazy
- World Leaders Call on Hamas to Release Hostages and Accept Ceasefire Deal
- Jan Resseger: What Is White Christian Nationalism?
- Tennessee: Gov. Lee Fumes About Voucher Failure, But Parents and Educators Celebrate
- Network for Public Education Ranked One of Nation’s Most Influential Education Organizations!
- Haaretz: Hamas Releases a Hostage Video from Gaza
- Bill Kristol: Reject the Mob, Every Mob
- Carol Burris on the Wisdom Rick Hess Gleans from Uber Drivers
- Iowa Increases Funding for Vouchers, Expands Eligibility
- Tune in! I Discuss “Slaying Goliath” Tomorrow with Tim Slekar
- Watch Julian Vasquez Heilig Testify About Charter Schools to Congressional Committee
- Tennessee: Legislators Pass Bill to Arm Teachers Despite Opposition by Teachers and Parents
- Florida: Politician Loses Appeal to Make Her Home Tax-Exempt
- Texas: Book Banning Gets Nuttier, Along with Efforts to Ban DEI in Higher Education
- John Thompson: Reading a Classic About the Tulsa Race Massacre
- David Berliner: The U.S. Has Many Wonderful Teachers, and Few Who Are “Bad” Teachers
- Ohio: Immigrants Boost Economy in Columbus
- Tennessee: Voucher Bill Dead!!
- What Universities Should Do About Hate Speech and Behavior
- Measles Outbreaks Are Worrying Public Health Officials
- Thom Hartmann: Bill Barr, the Master Fixer of GOP Crimes
- North Carolina: Top GOP Candidates Are Extremists
- Steve Hinnefeld: Should This Charter School Survive?
- Tom Ultican: The Profit Behind the “Science of Reading” Movement
- Steve Ruis: Why I’m Starting to Hate All Religions
- Florida: DeSantis Signs Bill to Limit Book Bans and Adds a Sugarplum for Charter Schools
- Thom Hartmann: Will Democracy Survive?
- Georgia: 50CAN Targets Atlanta’s Public Schools for Privatization
- Jon Stewart: A Very Funny Episode!
- North Carolina Pays for Vouchers for the Rich
- Jonathan V. Last: Why Is a Good Economy Bad for Biden? Media Muddle.
- Arizona: Republican Legislators Refuse to Consider Repealing 1864 Abortion Ban
- DeSantis Signs Law to Start Teaching About Communism in Kindergarten
- Mental Health Professionals Speak Out about Trump
- South Carolina: Charter Fraud and Profits!
- Peter Greene: How to Ease the Burden of Teachers Who Are Overworked
- Arizona: How Democrats Could Overturn the Abortion Ban of 1864
- Nebraska: Pro-Voucher Legislators Try to Kill Referendum (Because They Know They Will Lose)
- Investors in Trump Stock Blame Its Decline on Libs
- New Hampshire: GOP Leadership is Determined to Crush Public Schools, Ignore Hungry Children
- SAVE THE DATE: The Ravitch Lecture at Wellesley Is April 18, This Thursday!
- James Talarico: “There Is Nothing Christian About Christian Nationalism”
- Florida: Ex-Judge Lambastes Supreme Court for Ignoring State Constitution
- Texas: The Gilead Wives Club Who Sell Out Women’s Freedom and Rights
- Jan Resseger: Can Chicago Reverse Two Decades of Corporate Reform?
- DeSantis Signs Bill Forbidding Localities from Having Higher Standards of Worker Protection than State
- CREW: Who Is the Biggest Investor in Trump’s New Media Company?
- RFK Jr’s Running Mate Shares His Skepticism Towards Vaccines
- Bernie Sanders Explains Trump’s Position on Abortion
- Julian Vasquez Heilig on a Bluebook of Educational Thinkers
- Ruth Ben-Ghiat: The Phony GOP Claim that Biden is Authoritarian
- PBS Newshour: An Anatomy of a Trump Speech
- Tennessee: Gloria Johnson Explains Why She Had an Abortion
- Democracy: How Florida’s Supreme Court Built an Escape Hatch on Abortion Referendum
- NEPC: There Is No “Science” in the “Science of Reading”
- Michael Hiltzik: Should Hospitals Have the Right to Deny Care to a Woman Whose Life Is in Danger?
- Peter Greene: A Voucher By Any Other Name Is Still a Voucher and a Hoax
- Michigan: State Board Passes Resolution to Put Charter Schools Under Same Rules as Public Schools
- Unprecedented: Gerald R. Ford Foundation Afraid to Give Its Award to Liz Cheney
- Democracy: Putin Meddled in Our Elections
- Federal Judge: J6 Convicts Are Criminals, Not “Hostages”
- Should Parents Be Held Accountable for Their Child’s Crimes?
- Grand Canyon Institute Denounces Az. Court’s Evisceration of Women’s Rights
- Arizona: Court Restores Pre-Statehood Abortion Law
- Bob Shepherd: A Review of a Review of “Slaying Goliath”
- David C. Berliner and Gene V. Glass Review “Slaying Goliath”
- Houston: Democratic Legislators Demand an Investigation of Mike Miles’ Tactics
- North Carolina: Michelle Morrow Is Not Qualified to Be Superintendent of Public Instruction
- Frank G. Splitt Reviews Liz Cheney’s “Oath and Honor”
- New York Will Move Away from Teacher Evaluation Tied to Test Scores
- Fundraising for the Presidency: A Report from the Status Kuo
- Maurice Cunningham: Reporters Should Raise These Questions With the “National Parents Union”
- Ohio: Journalist Explains: “There Aren’t Two Sides to Facts
- Justin Parmenter: North Carolina Is Funding Indoctrination in Christian Nationalist Schools
- What Conservative Justices Said about Roe v. Wade Under Oath at Their Hearings
- The Big Business of Denying Health Care
- Thom Hartmann: Get Involved! Stop Fascism!
- Florida: Abortion Access Will Be on the Ballot in November, Along with Two Justices Who Oppose It
- Michael Tomasky: Trump is the P.T. Barnum of Our Times
- Peter Greene: What “Science of Reading” Advocates Can Learn from the Common Core
- Donald Trump’s Father Suffered from Dementia
- RFK Jr. Says Biden Is a Bigger Threat to Democracy than Trump
- California: Unions Complain That Arts Funding Is Misused
- CNN Fact-Checker: Trump Lied Again!
- George Will Bashes Kari Lake and Bernie Moreno, Trump Puppets
- John Thompson: Oklahoma on “the Cutting Edge of Crazy”
- Dana Milbank: Trump Forgot But We Should Not
- Tom Nichols: Trump and the Cult of Violence
- William S. Becker: How to Fix the Supreme Court
- Florida Supreme Court Does a Two-Step on Abortion
- Trump Stock Declines Sharply in Today’s Trading
- What Did Trump and Biden Do on Easter Sunday?
- Julian Vasquez Heilig: A New Concept for a Charter School
- Tim Slekar: Join and Listen to “Busted Pencils!”
- NEPC: Can You Tell Fact from Fiction?
March 2024
- “Cabrini”: A Wonderful Film
- Jemar Tisby: Three Years Ago, We Stopped the Publication of a “God Bless the USA” Bible
- Trump Is Now Selling $60 Bibles: Make America Pray Again
- Thom Hartmann: Republicans Plan to Suppress the Vote in 2024
- Timothy Snyder on Putin’s Paranoia
- U.S. Supreme Court Allows Gerrymandered Districts to Remain in Place
- Alert the Secret Service and FBI! Trump Circulates Images of Biden as Victim of Violence
- Oklahoma: EPIC Theft of Public Dollars by For-Profit Online Charter School
- Wake-Up, New Hampshire! Koch and ALEC Import “Young Americans for Liberty” to Cancel Democracy
- Heather Fox Richardson: A Tribute to Immigrants
- So You Want to Hire a Conservative Commentator!
- Alabama: Democrat Wins Special Election by Focusing on Abortion
- John Merrow Confers the TAMPU Awards!
- John Thompson: Oklahoma Explores the Zombie Policy of Merit Pay
- Ronna McDaniel Expects Big Payday after NBC Retracts Offer
- Texas: Democrats Keep Losing Because of Voter Apathy
- Josh Cowen Warns Pennsylvania: Beware the Voucher Hoax!
- Tennessee: Lights Out for the “Achievement School District”
- NBC Cuts Ties with Ronna McDaniel After Revolt by On-Air Stars
- Dan Rather: What Was NBC Thinking When It Hired Trump Apologist Ronna McDaniel?
- Houston: Mike Miles Takes a Break from Firing Principals
- Colorado: Dark Money Mobilizes to Defeat Charter School Accountability
- Peter Greene: Do You Really Want AI to Write Your lesson Plans?
- D.C.: Anna J. Cooper, a Hero of American Education
- North Carolina: GOP Candidate for State Superintendent of Schools Is a QAnon Homeschooler
- A Spectacular Achievement on the Ice! Ilia Malinin!
- Indiana: New Law Requires Professors to Teach “Diverse” Views or Face Firing
- Thom Hartmann: Was the Terrorist Attack in Moscow Akin to the Reichstag Fire of 1933? Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid.
- Some of Trump’s Biggest Failures in the Business World
- North Carolina: Court of Appeals Rejects Removal of Confederate Monument
- The Atlantic: Private Equity Eyes Child-Care Industry as Profit Center
- NYC: Charter School of Dr. Steve Perry and Rapper “Diddy” Mired in Controversy
- Bob Shepherd: Gayle Green on How to Make a Human
- Why You Must See “The Program” on Netflix
- Deconstructing Trump’s Fascist Speech: Victim, Martyr, Liar
- Hindu “Statesman” Will Move to Florida if DeSantis Signs the Bill to Let Him Guide Students
- Jason Garcia: Florida Legislature Passes More Terrible Legislation
- Texas Claims Control of International Border; SCOTUS Agrees; Circuit Court Disagrees
- Two Brits Pranked Tucker Carlson about Kate Middleton Photo
- Ohio: The Facts are In. Vouchers Should Not Subsidize the Affluent
- Ohio’s Multi-Million $$$$ Voucher Scam
- Democracy: Trump Is an Insurrectionist. The Supreme Court Gave Him a Pass.
- Surprise! MacKenzie Scott Gives $2 Million to Pro-Public School Austin Group
- Garry Rayno: New Hampshire’s Issues Go National
- Laurence Tribe and J. Michael Luttig: The Supreme Court Should Not Have Ignored the Constitution
- Arizona: Grand Canyon Institute On Voucher Ripoff
- Michael Tomasky: Bloodbath-Gate, Trump-Style
- Maine: Federal Court Says Religious Schools Must Obey State Bias Law if They Get State Money
- Jim Hightower: Why Tom Paine Was the Greatest of All Founding Fathers
- John Thompson: Blood on the Hands of Oklahoma Politicians for Death of Nex Benedict
- George Conway: What Did Trump Mean When He Said “Bloodbath”?
- An Interesting Night at the Opera
- The Myth of an “Immigrant Crime Wave”
- Trump Predicts a “Bloodbath” if He Loses, Refers to Immigrants as “Not People,” “Animals”
- A New York City Vacation: What to See on Broadway
- Justice RBG’s Family Objects to Awards in Her Name as an Insult to Her Legacy
- California: Orange County Recalls 2 Rightwing School Board Members
- Fabiola Santiago: Say Gay, Florida! DeSantis Loses!
- Nora de la Cour: Red State Legislatures Are Vilifying Public Schools
- North Carolina: The Bigotry of GOP Candidate for Governor
- NPE Blasts Texas IDEA Charter Scandal!
- Kentucky: GOP Passes Bill to Nullify Parts of State Constitution to Allow Vouchers
- Joel: Unions Create “Good Jobs”
- RBG Award Goes to Odd List, Including Musk and Murdoch!
- Tom Ultican: “Learning Loss” Bunkum, Debunked
- Cameron Vickrey: Why You Should Send Your Children to Public School
- Mary Trump: The Hilarity of the Robert Hur Hearing
- The Do-Nothing Congress Has Done Nothing
- Jan Resseger: The Stupidity of Ranking and Rating Schools by Test Scores
- Florida: Yes, You Can Say Gay! Legal Settlement Clarifies Limits of “Don’t Say Gay” Law.
- Contrast Biden and Trump As They Campaign
- Houston Chronicle Editorial: Greg Abbott is the Captain Ahab of Texas
- John Thompson: The Failure of “Fixing” Schools by Closing Them
- NPE Applauds President Biden’s Proposed Education Budget
- Texas: Evangelical Billionaires Score Big Wins in State Elections
- Watch A Remarkable Interview of Former Ambassador Michael McFaul
- Jay Kuo: Katie Britt’s Disgusting Lie about Border Security
- Justin Parmenter: North Carolina Taxpayers Are Funding Bible-Thumping Bigots
- Thom Hartmann: Dark Brandon Proves He’s Strong and Sharp
- Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Why Trump Humiliates Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham
- Chris Tomlinson: Houston’s Economy Needs Immigrants
- Trump’s Plans to Crack Down on Immigration in His Second Term
- Bernie Sanders: Why Trump must Be Defeated
- Thom Hartman: How the Monopolists Stole the U.S. Government
- Michael Podhorzer: Don’t Be Fooled by the MAGA Movement
- Ohio: Legislature Wants a Course in Capitalism, Not Financial Literacy
- NPR: How the Trump Campaign in 2016 Weakened the GOP Platform re Ukraine Aid
- Vouchers Fuel Revival of Religious Schools
- Scandal in Texas: IDEA Charter Schools Placed Under Conservatorship
- Texas: This Rural Republican Was Ousted by Governor Abbott Because He Opposed Vouchers
- Jan Resseger: Vouchers in Ohio Benefit the Affluent
- Trump Vows to Cut Federal Funding to Any School That Mandates Vaccines or Masks
- Texas: Local Elections and the Fight Over Vouchers
- North Carolina: MAGA Home-Schooler Wins GOP Race for State School Superintendent
- Nebraska: Vouchers Will Be on the Ballot in November Unless Court Blocks Them
- Peter Greene: CBS’ “60 Minutes” Confronts Moms for Liberty on Book Banning
- Catharine Rampell: Immigration Boosted Our Economy by $7 Trillion
- George Conway: The Supreme Court Decided Based on Fear
- David French: The Supreme Court Just Erased Part of the Constitution
- Robert Hubbell: The Supreme Court’s Latest Decision Was a Disgrace: Vote!
- Tennessee: Lobbyist Warned Anti-Voucher Republicans of “Public Hangings” if They Don’t Support Vouchers
- Florida: Circuit Court Overturns “Stop Woke” Law in Workplaces
- New York: Governor Hochul Slashes Budget Aid for Rural Schools
- The Mysterious Deaths of Putin’s Critics
- Thom Hartmann: How the Bork Doctrine Promoted Monopolies and Billionaires
- Florida District Alters Illustrations in Classic Children’s Books to Appease Moms for Liberty
- Jay Kuo: Don’t believe the New York Times/Siena Presidential Poll!
- Greg Olear: Something Beautiful
- Jess Piper: Why Uncontested Seats Are Undemocratic and Breed Extremism
- Trump’s Debt to Putin
- Heather Cox Richardson: The GOP is a Dying Party
- Should Anonymous Comments Be Permitted Online?
- Did Ukraine Miss a Chance to Make a Deal with Russia?
- Texas: Vote for These Brave Legislators Who Stood Up for Public Schools!
- Cameron Vickrey: No to Chaplains in School!
- Jess Piper: Don’t Forget Rural Democrats
February 2024
- Anand Giridharadas: The Supreme Court’s Attempted Suicide
- Lincoln Project: What Fred Trump Thinks of Donald
- Ohio: $1 Billion Per Year for Unaccountable Private Schools
- A Right-Wing Think Tank and Its Plan to Destroy “the Administrative State”
- Florida: “Surgeon General” Fails to Tell Students to Get Vaccinated Against Measles
- Heather Cox Richardson: Why the Founders Insisted on Separating Church and State
- Texas Monthly: The Billionaire Bully Who Wants Texas to be a Theocracy
- Paul Thomas: Big Lies of Education: Confusing NAEP Proficient with “Grade Level”
- Jonathan V. Last: Trump Showed His Vulnerabilities in South Carolina
- Dan Rather: Trump’s Electoral Weakness Is Showing
- John Thompson: How Should the Press Cover Extremism?
- Thom Hartmann: Putin Now Owns the GOP
- North Carolina: Republican Leaders Ask High Court to Reverse Decision Funding Public Schools
- Robert B. Hubbell: Why Democrats Should Stick with Joe Biden
- Does Your State Support Public Schools? A New Report Card from the Network for Public Education
- Florida: Orlando Sentinel Denounces a Bill to Declare “Fetal Personhood”
- Gary Rubinstein: Success Academy and the Mysterious Disappearance of One of Its Schools
- Paul Bowers: Reconciling/Resisting Christian Faith and Christian Haters
- Speaker Mike Johnson Meets with Trump at Mar-A-Lago
- Heather Cox Richardson: Two Years Ago, Russia Invaded Ukraine Without Cause
- Reader: Biden’s Economy Is Even Better Than You Think!
- Michael Hiltzik: Elon Musk Wants the Courts to Destroy NLRB
- Alexandra Petri: Congratulations! That Cluster of Cells is a child!
- Arizona: Parent Learns That “School Choice” Means “Schools Choose”
- Christian Nationalists Plan to Infuse Their Ideas in a Second Trump Term
- These Tanks Are Storing Tens of Thousands of Frozen Embryos
- Steve Ruis: Alabama’s Nutty Supreme Court Invents a New Religious Theory
- Neuroscientist: We Are Thinking about Memory Loss the Wrong Way
- Will Your Child’s Private Data Be Sold by the College Board?
- Heather Cox Richardson: The Putin Wing of the GOP
- Jonathan V. Last: How Biden Can Defuse the Age Issue: Embrace It!
- Umair Haque: Ageism, Biden and Trump
- Houston Chronicle Endorses Joe Biden for President
- Heather Cox Richardson: Manafort, Trump, and Ukraine
- Arkansas: New Member of State Library Board Tries to Defund Libraries that Fight State Censorship Law
- Florida: How Conservative Billionaires Shaped DeSantis’s Cruel Agenda
- Trump Pauses Presidental Campaign to Launch “Trump Sneakers,” Marks Death of Navalny Without Mentioning Putin
- Navalny’s Widow Says She Will Take His Place; Officials Refuse to Release Body
- Jonathan V. Last: About That Georgia Election Fraud…
- Jennifer Rubin: Blame Merrick Garland for Appointing Hur
- Nebraska: Public School Supporters Fight Vouchers with Ballot Referendum
- Navalny’s Death Must Signal the Beginning of the End of Putin’s Evil Empire
- Watch a Discussion of the CNN Documentary “Navalny”
- Navalny’s Mother Goes to Arctic to Claim Her Son’s Body and Is Rejected
- Watch the Celebrated Film About Putin’s Corruption, Made by Navalny
- 60 Minutes Interviews Navalny After He Was Poisoned, 2020
- Alexei Navalny’s Daughter Speaks About His Courage and Resilience
- Alexei Navalny: This Is What a Post-Putin Russia Should Look Like
- World Leaders Express Outrage Over Navalny’s Death But Trump Is Silent
- Abortion Foes Plan Onslaught of New Restrictions if Trump Wins
- Florida: Legislature Considering Bill to Protect Confederate Monuments
- Trump Supports National Ban on Abortion at 16 Weeks
- A Video Link to the Conversation about Privatization
- Thom Hartmann: The Only Way to Stop Fascism: Vote!
- Texas: Anti-Voucher Republicans Are Targets of Abbott’s Campaign Lies
- Alexei Navalny, Leading Opponent of Putin, Dies in Russian Prison. He Was a Hero and a Patriot.
- Tune in Tonight at 7 PM EST for My Talk About Privatization and Attacks on Public Schools
- Colorado: Gun Control Law Introduced
- Which NATO Countries Did Trump Offer to Putin as Targets for Invasion?
- Irish Times: Why Does the Media Normalize a Wannabe Dictator? $$$
- New York City: End Mayoral Control of the Schools!
- New York State Wins $750,000 from College Board for Selling Student Data
- Los Angeles School Board Passes Policy Limiting Charter Co-Locations
- Heather Cox Richardson: History Is Watching!
- Open Secrets Reports: Trump Network Paid More Than $60 Million in Legal Fees
- What Do Test Scores Measure? How I Lost My Faith in Their Value
- John Sweeney: When Tucker Carlson Met Putin
- Mississippi: Parent Group Sues to Block Public Funds from Private Schools
- Thom Hartmann: 56 Years Of Treasonous Acts by GOP Candidates and Presidents
- Ohio: Fund Public Schools, Not Vouchers
- Ohio: Charters and Vouchers Defund the Public Schools
- Ohio: After GOP Lifts Income Caps on Vouchers, Enrollments and Costs Soar
- Yong Zhao: Why Doesn’t the U.S. Scrap PISA?
- Robert Hubbell: Trump is Unfit to be President
- Politico: Trump Says He Won’t Defend NATO Ally if It Hasn’t Paid Its Dues
- Just Security: What the Hur Report Really Said vs. The Headlines
- Washington Post: Did Hur Violate DOJ Protocols?
- The Inside Story: Biden Aides Who Attended Hur Interview Stunned by Report
- Marcy Wheeler: Hur’s Witch Hunt Comes Up with Nothing
- Heather Cox Richardson: Hur Report Was a “Political Hit Job”
- The Atlantic: Biden’s Gaffes Are Not What You Think
- New Hampshire: Republican Legislators Want to Lift Income Caps for Vouchers
- The Supreme Court and Trump: Is a “Grand Bargain” in the Wings?
- Who Is Robert K. Hur?
- What 25 Eminent Historians Told the Supreme Court About the Intent of the Founders Who Wrote Amendment 14, Section 3
- Brazil: Former President Arrested for Effort to Overturn Election He Lost
- Send This Teacher to the Legislature in Tallahassee!!
- Unity Group of Chattanooga Protests Vouchers
- Bidenomics: A Surprisingly Successful Economic Program
- North Carolina: State Orders Charter School to Repay $162,597
- Los Angeles: Vote for Sherlett Hendy Newbill for LAUSD board, District 1
- Los Angeles: Vote for Scott Schmerelson in District 3
- Los Angeles: Vote for Fidencio Gallardo for School Board, District 5
- Arkansas: State Awards $1 Million to Politically Connected Firm to Adminster Vouchers
- CNN: “Moms for Liberty” Is Encountering Stiff Resistance
- Read the Federal Appeals Court’s Unanimous Decision that President Is Not Immune from Prosecution
- Pennsylvania: Public Interest Law Firms Congratulate Gov. Shapiro for Budget Proposal, Not for Vouchers
- Houston: Principal Turnover Hits 20% After State Takeover
- North Carolina: More $$$ for Voucher Schools, More Tests for Public Schools
- North Carolina: Vouchers for the Rich! Propaganda Wins!
- Gary Rubinstein: Why Don’t Success Academy High School Students Take Advanced Regents Exams?
- How Many People Drank Bleach, as Trump Suggested?
- Correction: Los Angeles Charter Story Was Inaccurate, for Now
- Steve Ruis: How Many People Died of COVID Because They Took Trump’s Advice?
- Peter Greene: Iowa Wants Unlicensed Chaplains to Counsel Students
- Los Angeles: Charter Schools Barred from Nearly Half of LA’s Public Schools
- Florida: State Attorney General Asks State Court to Strike Abortion Referendum Because Voters Won’t Understand It
- Billy Townsend: America Rejects DeSantis and “the Florida Blueprint”
- Jonathan Zimmerman: Memoirs of a White Savior
- Oklahoma: This Is What Public Schools Do!
- Florida: While Attacking LGBT People, the Zieglers Were “on the Hunt” for Threesome Partners, Police Say
- Michael Hiltzik: The Most Dangerous Quack in the Nation
- Umair Haque: MAGA and the Failure of America’s “Grand Social Experiment”
- MAGA Hates Taylor Swift!
- Texas: Federal Court Overturns Law Forcing Bookstores to Review Books They Sell to Schools
- ProPublica: Private Schools in Ohio Urge Parents to Get a Voucher
- Quinnipiac Poll: Biden Opens Lead Over Trump
January 2024
- Breaking News: Federal Judge Rules Against Disney in its Battle with DeSantis
- House Homeland Security Committee Votes to Impeach Mayorkas
- Robert Hubbell: It’s Always About Trump
- Bill Maher Explains Why “From the River to the Sea” is an Obstacle to Peace in the Middle East
- Legislatures Should Not Mandate How to Teach or Ban Instructional Strategies
- New Hampshire: Another Day, Another Charter School Scandal
- Nancy Bailey: What Secretary Cardona Should Do Now
- John Thompson: Oklahoma’s Leaders Engage in Strange, Irresponsible Behavior
- Jeff Bryant: Two Federal Education Programs with Opposite Purposes
- Uvalde Report: A Failure of Leadership
- Oklahoma: Should the Public Fund a Religious Charter School?
- Private Equity is Buying Up Hospitals, Squeezing Out Big Profits, Letting Them Die
- Texas: Gov. Abbott Says He Will Defy Supreme Court Decision on Border Control
- Thom Hartmann: Trump’s Terrifying New Reich, The Early Months
- Ethics Lawyers: Why Fani Willis is not Disqualified Under Georgia Law
- Indiana: Operators of Virtual Charter Schools Indicted on Multiple Counts of Fraud
- Michael Tomasky: Trump’s Mental Breakdown Has Started
- Timothy Snyder: Yes, We CAN Help Ukraine While Congress Dithers: Here Is How
- Texas: More than 26,000 Babies Born to Victims of Rape
- Tennessee: Governor Lee Wants to Expand Vouchers Statewide Despite Failure of Pilot Program
- Heather Cox Richardson: Why Trump Is Blocking a Border Deal
- Thom Hartmann: What Did the Founders Say About Separation of Church and State?
- Arkansas: Governor Assures Christian Schools That They Can Continue to Discriminate
- Watch Ruby Bridges on the Stephen Colbert Show
- Oklahoma: Leader of “Libs of TikTok” Named as Library Advisor by State Education Department
- Politico: Trump Has Undermined the Rule of Law for 50 Years
- Surprise! Supreme Court Supports Biden in Case About Texas’s Border Razor Wire
- Yoav Fisher: Hamas Has Lost the War
- Yoav Fisher: Israel Has Lost the War
- Nancy Bailey: It’s Time to Take Back Kindergarten!
- Texas: Big Money Floods Republican Primaries on Behalf of Vouchers
- Michael Tomasky: The Rightwing Takeover of the Media
- Amplifying Democracy’s Voice: BustEDpencils, a Daily Rally Cry for Public Education!
- New Hampshire: Voucher Bills Split Along Partisan Lines
- Texas: When Billionaires Fund the News….
- Leonie Haimson: The Myth of Accountability Under Mayoral Control
- Beware Deep Fake Videos! Protect Our Democracy!
- Haaretz: A Surprising Effort to Build Bonds Between Arabs and Jews
- “Democracy” Weighs In on Controversy in Atlanta About Fani Willis and Prosecutor
- Trump Rants and Blames Nikki Haley for January 6 Insurrection
- Jamelle Bouie: Trump Is a Loser
- Michael Meltsner: After Section 3 Comes Section 2
- John Thompson: Oklahoma’s State Chief Clings to Failed Reforms
- “Democracy“: A Yale Historian Speaks Out About the Changes in the Republican Party
- Daily Yonder: Public Colleges in Rural Areas Are Cutting the Humanities
- Florida “Proud Boy” Sentenced for Violent Attacks on Police Officers on January 6
- Why Greg Abbott Wanted Vouchers So Badly: Jeff Yass Paid Him $6 Million!
- Thom Hartmann: Why Rightwingers Oppose Public Schools
- Bob Shepherd: Testing in Florida; Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
- The Media’s Worst Mistake about Trump
- Jan Resseger: The Culture Wars Are Obscuring What Really Matters
- Dana Milbank in Iowa: Trump Owns the Republican Party
- NPR: Who Was Jane Roe of “Roe v. Wade” Fame?
- Rachel M. Cohen: Access to Abortion Pills Has Grown Since Dobbs Decision
- Republican Judges in Texas Exclude Pregnant Women from Law Requiring Emergency Care if it Means Abortion
- How MacKenzie Scott Pissed Off Elon Musk
- EXPOSED! Florida’s Taxpayer-Funded, Deceptive Abortion Centers
- Iowa: Principal Dan Marburger Dies Defending His Students
- Heather Cox Richardson: Yes, There Are Heroes
- Red States Are Eliminating Child Labor Laws; What Would Dr. King Say?
- North Carolina: Segregation and Privatization Increase: What Would Dr. King Say?
- Texas National Guard Prevents Border Patrol from Saving Drowning Migrants: Three Die. What Would Dr. King Say?
- Young Martin Luther King Jr. on the Purpose of Education
- The Hoax of Ohio’s So-Called “Community Schools”
- Idaho: Governor Proposes to Spend $2 Billion on School Facilities
- Mississippi Rejects Federal $$ for Summer Food for Kids
- Bob Shepherd: A Commemoration of Trump
- Heather Cox Richardson: Why the Houthis Must Be Stopped
- Fabiola Santiago: DeSantis Is Wrong: Kids in Florida Are NOT Better Off
- Eugene Robinson: DeSantis and Haley are Pathetic Panderers
- The Text Messages Between Ginni Thomas and Mark Meadows
- The Hill: Conservatives See Takedown of Two University Presidents as “Just the Beginning”
- Arthur Camins: The Lies That Protect the 1%
- Thom Hartmann: The Fascists Start with Threats of Violence
- PEN America: Escambia County, Florida, Banned More than 1,600 Books,Including 5 Dictionaries!
- Heather Cox Richardson: What Biden Has Accomplished
- Appeals Court Judges Seem Skeptical of Trump’s Belief in Total Immunity
- European Workers Are Fighting Elon Musk, Richest Man in the World
- Billy Townsend on Chris Rufo’s Inflated Credentials
- Jamelle Bouie: Trump is a Sore Loser
- Jamelle Bouie: If Trump Is Not an Insurrectionist, What Is He?
- Yes! The Supreme Court Should Disqualify Trump from Appearing on the Ballot
- Mary L. Trump: Why Does “Meet the Press” Love MAGA?
- Study: Trump’s Favorite COVID Remedy Was Deadly
- Thom Hartmann: How Reagan’s Tax Cuts Expanded Inequality
- The Teacher Who Inspired Philly’s First Female Mayor
- Is Trump the Messiah?
- Mercedes Schneider: U.S. Education Suffers from a Bizarre, Bipartisan Love of Standardized Testing
- The Montana Youth Who Sued to Save the Environment—and Won!
- Florida Resort Cancels Marjorie Taylor Greene Event
- Chris Rufo Takes a Victory Lap with Claudine Gay’s Scalp
- Peter Greene: Is Ryan Walters the Worst State Chief in the Nation?
- John Thompson: Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Wants to Destroy Tulsa Public Schools
- Why the Supreme Court Should Let Trump Stay on the Ballot
- Timothy Snyder: Why Trump Cannot Run for President
- Thomas Ultican: “A Nation at Risk” Was a Pack of Lies
- Sam Wineburg: The Lies That Advertisers Tell Students
- Colorado: Armed Man Breaks into State Supreme Court Building
- South Carolina: Moms for Liberty Will Open Their Own Charter School in Affluent Neighborhood
- Documented: The Secret Plot to Destroy Public Education, Revealed
- Happy, Healthy 2024 to All: Sharing Words of Wisdom