How Teach for America Evolved Into an Arm of the Charter School Movement
erhui1979/Getty This story was originally published by ProPublica. When the Walton Family Foundation announced in 2013 that it was donating $20 million to Teach For America to recruit and train nearly 4,000 teachers for low-income schools, its press release did not reveal the unusual terms for the grant. Documents obtained by ProPublica show that the foundation,…
Chart of the Day: Has Facebook Usage Collapsed?
I don’t know if I really believe this, but Facebook usage has plummeted in the past year according to a report in the Guardian: According to the analysis, Facebook has more users than it did a year ago but they’re spending less time on the site and they’re engaging less with what they see. If…
Hope Hicks Thinks Trump Was Serious When He Invited Foreign Interference
Hope Hicks, who probably knows Donald Trump as well as anyone, thinks he was serious when he said he’d be happy to accept campaign dirt from a foreign government: Q: The President last week told George Stephanopoulos that he would take information about an opponent from a foreign adversary in the next election….Do you think…
Felix Sater Will Testify in Private About Trump Tower Moscow. He Says He Was Willing to Do it Publicly.
Donald Trump, Tevfik Arif, and Felix Sater attend the Trump Soho Launch Party on September 19, 2007 in New York.Mark Von Holden/WireImage Felix Sater, a real estate developer who helped Donald Trump secretly pursue a Trump-branded tower project in Moscow, will testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Friday after months of delay, but the…
Americans Are Sort Of OK With Foreign Election Meddling*
Michael Tomz and Jessica Weeks, a pair of political scientists, recently did a bit of research to find out what people thought about foreign election interference. They surveyed several thousand people, giving them different scenarios for foreign meddling (endorsements, contributions, hacking into voting systems) and asked what they thought about each of them. Here are…
Trump Confronts Iran—Without Allies, a Defense Secretary, or a Coherent Policy
Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Early Thursday morning, the United States military accused Iran of an “unprovoked attack” on a Navy drone flying over international waters, spurring President Donald Trump to tweet that the Islamic Republic had “made a very big mistake.” Iran’s Revolutionary Guard acknowledged the attack but said the drone had been positioned over Iran, an…