Elizabeth Warren Calls Betsy DeVos “The Worst Secretary Of Education This Country Has Ever Seen”
Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In her first year overseeing the Education Department, Secretary Betsy DeVos has been “a boon for for-profit colleges, student loan companies, and advocates of school privatization,” while harming public school students of all ages, according to a report released Thursday by two Massachusetts Democrats,…
Crime Didn’t Drop In New York City Because of CompStat
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What is the deal with New Yorkers? Here is Chris Smith on CompStat, the computerized crime-tracking system first used in New York: No New York invention, arguably, has saved more lives in the past 24 years. CompStat has helped drive down the city’s crime rates…
Lyft Is Offering Free Rides to the “March For Our Lives” Protests
February 21, 2018 -Students from the Washington, DC, area walk out of class to demand gun control legislation at a gathering outside the White House. Erin Scott/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The ride hailing service Lyft has offered free rides to those participating in “March For Our Lives” gun control rallies…
It Took the NRA One Day to Crush President Trump’s Gun Reforms
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Today she announced President Trump’s unconditional surrender to the NRA.Chris Kleponis/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From the Wall Street Journal: At a televised meeting earlier in the week with lawmakers, Mr. Trump had endorsed a Senate proposal to significantly expand…
Devin Nunes Has Turned the House Intelligence Committee Into an Oppo Research Center
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Perhaps you remember a Republican attempt from a few weeks ago to invent a scandal about Sen. Mark Warner. The basic story was that Warner had tried to set up a meeting with bogeyman Christopher Steele of “dossier” fame, and … um, that was about…
Wilbur Ross: $175 Is No Big Deal
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Our Commerce Secretary tries his hand at justifying his trade war over steel and aluminum: Wilbur Ross on @CNBC now: “There’s about 1 ton of steel in a car. The price of a ton of steel is $700 or so, so 25% on that would…